Frontiers

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

by Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com Forests are excellent at absorbing and storing carbon and can play a role in meeting global net zero targets. As more countries commit to forest creation, but mainly plant single species forests, an international team of researchers has examined how carbon stocks in mixed forests and monocultures compare.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Researchers have investigated how changes in urban land and population will affect future populations' exposures to weather extremes under climate conditions at the end of the 21st century. They used a data-driven model to predict how urban areas across the country will grow by 2100, and found that how a city is laid out or organized spatially has the potential to reduce population exposures to future weather extremes.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

AI technology has been a gamechanger for the video streaming industry. Some of the largest video streaming services, such as Netflix and Hulu use AI to provide the highest quality video streaming benefits to their customers. Of course, there are still some limitations with using AI to create higher quality video streaming experiences. Last month, the Chief Content Officer for Netflix stated that AI is unable to do an adequate job recommending content to customers.

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The New Social Worker

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

A concerning trend has emerged as 22 states have introduced or enacted legislation that would restrict DEI initiatives and the teaching of DEI. These laws may present social work educators with a conflict between ethical and legal responsibilities.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

by Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Image/Shutterstock.com Scientists have found that specially processed samples of willow bark extract have an antiviral effect which isn’t seen in already known medical compounds from willow bark, such as salicylic acid, the precursor to modern aspirin. The extract worked against two common types of virus with very different structures, enteroviruses and coronaviruses, suggesting the potential for a new broad-spectrum antiviral to help us fight

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

High-intensity, often catastrophic, wildfires have become increasingly frequent across the Western U.S. Researchers quantified the value of managed low-intensity burning to dramatically reduce the risk of such fires for years at a time.

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Berkeley Public Health: Racism and Health

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

More than 75 years of transformational research and hands-on social impact for a better world.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Frontiers’ volunteers have always been at the forefront of community and societal responses. Ross McGlennon shares his experience utilizing his sailing skills for a unique volunteering opportunity. Photo credit: Ross McGlennon What is your background and role at Frontiers? “Previously, I worked in the outdoor industry which allowed me to travel and experience new places.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A new study documents how Greenland's peripheral glaciers have changed from 1890 to 2022. Using satellite images and a unique archive of historical aerial photos, researchers documented changes in the lengths of more than 1,000 of the country's glaciers over the past 130 years. Although glaciers in Greenland have experienced retreat throughout the last century, the rate of their retreat has rapidly accelerated over the last two decades.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

AI technology plays a very important role in photo editing and manipulation. In June, The New York Times published a fascinating article on some of the many ways that AI can help create amazing photos and visuals. However, AI can be equally important in some less exciting ways. One of the other advantages of AI is that it can help recover lost photos from digital cameras.

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Gideon

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

When we’re running through the woods or hiking up a new trail, we often feel invigorated by the fresh air, exercise, and the opportunity to clear our minds. However, it’s important to be aware that ticks thrive in these environments and can transmit various tick-borne diseases, with Lyme disease being the most widely recognized. Lyme disease is spread through the bite of deer ticks ( Ixodes scapularis ticks)and is caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The latest news on our collaborations with scholarly societies. Credit: Frontiers Welcome from Robyn Mugridge, head of publishing partnerships The publishing partnerships team saw a continued growth trend in our community of partners. Submissions to our partner journals have continued to go up with a 27% increase on the same period last year. So far this year, our portfolio of partners has published 15% more reviews and 150% more special issues than last year.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Over the past few decades, algae have been slowly edging corals out of their native reefs across the globe by blocking sunlight, wearing the corals down physically, and producing harmful chemicals. But in recent years, a new type of algal threat has surfaced in tropical regions like the Caribbean -- one that spreads quickly and forms a crust on top of coral and sponges, suffocating the organisms underneath and preventing them from regrowing.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

If you’re eager to monetize the web hosting services you offer to third party site owners, or you have a selection of self-hosted sites which you are eager to wring more cash out of, then machine learning could be the answer. There are lots of ways in which this bleeding edge tech can be applied to enhancing web hosting, so let’s talk about just a few of the main aspects in order to bring you in on this not-very-well-kept secret.

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Berkeley Public Health: Racism and Health

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Dr. Herd will be leading a team of researchers to interview community organizers about their vaccine outreach strategies.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

by Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com At Frontiers, we bring some of the world’s best research to a global audience. But with tens of thousands of articles published each year, it’s impossible to cover all of them. Here are just five amazing papers you may have missed. Carnivore territories might soon overlap – and some species profit more than others Some of Europe’s large carnivore populations, including jackals and lynxes, are growing and expanding their territ

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

A team has developed a new step to improve the process for creating insulin-producing pancreatic cells from a patient's own stem cells, bringing the prospect of injection-free treatment closer for people with diabetes.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Data management technology plays a very important role in photo editing and manipulation. In June, The New York Times published a fascinating article on some of the many ways that data management technology can help create amazing photos and visuals. However, data management technology can be equally important in some less exciting ways.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Replacing sitting with as little as a few minutes of moderate exercise a day tangibly improves heart health, according to new research.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Allergic responses to common foods such as dairy and peanuts can increase the risk for heart disease and cardiovascular death as much or more than smoking, new research suggests. And these dangerous allergic responses can strike both people with food allergies and those with no obvious allergy symptoms.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Researchers have used fossil evidence to engineer a soft robotic replica of pleurocystitids, a marine organism that existed nearly 450 million years ago and is believed to be one of the first echinoderms capable of movement using a muscular stem.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

A speech prosthetic developed by a collaborative team of Duke neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, and engineers can translate a person's brain signals into what they're trying to say. The new technology might one day help people unable to talk due to neurological disorders regain the ability to communicate through a brain-computer interface.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

When scientists examined pellets from recycled plastic collected in 13 countries they found hundreds of toxic chemicals, including pesticides and pharmaceuticals. Because of this, the scientists judge recycled plastics unfit for most purposes and a hinder in the attempts to create a circular economy.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The hunter-gatherers who settled on the banks of the Haine, a river in southern Belgium, 31,000 years ago were already using spearthrowers to hunt their game. The material found at the archaeological site of Maisières-Canal permits establishing the use of this hunting technique 10,000 years earlier than the oldest currently known preserved spearthrowers.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A long-beaked echidna named after Sir David Attenborough and last seen by scientists in 1961 has been photographed for the first time in an Indonesian tropical forest. An international team of researchers worked with local communities to deploy over 80 camera traps to film the elusive animal. Besides rediscovering the echidna, the team uncovered a wealth of species completely new to science, including beetles, spiders, and a remarkable tree-dwelling shrimp.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Paleontologists have shed light on the long-standing saga of Ekgmowechashala, based on fossil teeth and jaws found in both Nebraska and China. Ekgmowechashala is the last primate found in the fossil record before humans.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The path a cell takes from healthy to metastatic cancer is mostly driven by epigenetic changes, according to a new computational study.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Over 100 letters sent to French sailors by their fiancées, wives, parents and siblings -- but never delivered -- have been opened and studied for the first time since they were written in 1757-8.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Almost every large galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center. An international research team has recently observed the Circinus galaxy, which is one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way, with high enough resolution to gain further insights into the gas flows to and from the black hole at its galactic nucleus.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

With help from an experienced underwater cave-diving team, researchers have constructed the most complete map to date of the microbial communities living in the submerged labyrinths beneath Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. Researchers found the cave system's microbiome is distinct from the nearby sea, and microbial communities vary between cave systems forming distinct 'neighborhoods.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Researchers have combined over seven synthetic chromosomes that were made in the lab into a single yeast cell, resulting in a strain with more than 50% synthetic DNA that survives and replicates similarly to wild yeast strains. A global consortium is working to develop the first synthetic eukaryote genome from scratch. The team has now synthesized and debugged all sixteen yeast chromosomes.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Researchers conducted a study to determine if replacing dietary fats from palm oil, soy and other agricultural crops with fats created synthetically in chemical or biological processes could help reduce climate change-causing greenhouse gases. The researchers' analysis finds a reduction in carbon emissions and other benefits, such the opening of agricultural lands to reforestation which benefits biodiversity and creates a carbon sink.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Microfossils may capture a jump in the complexity of life that coincided with the rise of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere and oceans, according to an international team of scientists.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A globe-spanning scientific team has compiled the most comprehensive list of genetic variants associated with prostate cancer risk -- 451 in all -- through a whole-genome analysis that ranks as the largest and most diverse investigation into prostate cancer genetics yet. The research explored the genomes of nearly 950,000 men, including major increases in representation among men from racial and ethnic groups that have often been left out of such research.

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