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Scientists design a two-legged robot powered by muscle tissue

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Compared to robots, human bodies are flexible, capable of fine movements, and can convert energy efficiently into movement. Drawing inspiration from human gait, researchers from Japan crafted a two-legged biohybrid robot by combining muscle tissues and artificial materials. This method allows the robot to walk and pivot.

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Book Review: Embodied Self Awakening

The New Social Worker

Have you ever considered how living in a patriarchal, racist, capitalist society damages your mental health and separates you from wellness? That is exactly what Nityda Gessel explores in this work, Embodied Self Awakening. The book first explores how we inherently experience pain when moving through the world, and how it creates emptiness within us.

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Q&A with Renee Salas: Lancet climate change brief recommends US urgent action

Public Health Newswire

Nation must rapidly phase out fossil fuel use, subsidies, report co-author says

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Podcast from Washington: Hill Update and NACCHO’s 2024 Legislative and Policy Agenda

The NACCHO Podcast Series

On this week’s podcast, the National Association of County and City Health Officials ’ Victoria Van de Vate, Director of Government Affairs, and Lauren Mastroberardino, Government Affairs Senior Specialist, cover the appropriations process and give an update on government funding, including rescissions of unobligated funds. They also discuss NACCHO’s 2024 legislative and policy agenda, highlighting this year’s most important issues for local public health.

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Achieving sustainable urban growth on a global scale

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An international group of leading scientists call for an urgent change in the governance of urban expansion as the world's cities continue to grow at unprecedented rates.

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The Role of Drug Repurposing in Pregnancy

Maternal Health Task Force

By: Katarzyna Borkowski , Former FDA ORISE Fellow, working with the Office of Medical Policy; current oncology research nurse at the NIH.; Maggie McCoy , Former Health Policy and Communications Intern with the Cure Drug Repurposing Collaboratory, currently works in communications and development at an education-focused nonprofit.; Mili Duggal , PhD, MPH, Staff Fellow in the Office of Medical Policy, CDER at FDA.

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Q&A with Renee Salas: Lancet climate change brief recommends US urgent action

Public Health Newswire

Nation must rapidly phase out fossil fuel use, subsidies, report co-author says

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A long-lasting neural probe

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An interdisciplinary team of researchers has developed a soft implantable device with dozens of sensors that can record single-neuron activity in the brain stably for months.

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A Collaborative Vision for Public Health in 2024

The Network for Public Health Law

“The year ahead is pivotal. The focus on public health has increasingly shifted to state legislatures, where ideological—rather than medical or scientific—considerations are shaping policies.” Dear Friends, As I reflect on my journey in the past year as the Executive Director of the Network for Public Health Law, the resilience and adaptability of the public health community in 2023 has been nothing short of inspiring.

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Severe Strep iGAS: Invasive Group A Streptococcus Infections Rising?

Gideon

In most cases, strep throat is not very serious. However, there is a more dangerous form of the infection called invasive Group A streptococcus (iGAS). Unfortunately, in 2024, there has been a notable increase in Group A streptococcal infections, mainly in children under 10, including deaths in Canada and Europe. This situation has been a cause of concern among public health experts because Group A streptococcus bacteria are crafty.

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Tiny ant species disrupts lion's hunting behavior

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Data gathered through years of observation reveal an innocuous-seeming ant is disrupting an ecosystem in East Africa, illustrating the complex web of interactions among ants, trees, lions, zebras and buffaloes.

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Coal-based product could replace sand in concrete

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A new study found that graphene derived from metallurgical coke, a coal-based product, through flash Joule heating could serve not only as a reinforcing additive in cement but also as a replacement for sand in concrete.

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Confirmation of ancient lake on Mars builds excitement for Perseverance rover's samples

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Ground-penetrating radar on board NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has confirmed that the Jezero Crater, formed by an ancient meteor impact just north of the Martian equator, once harbored a vast lake and river delta. Over eons, sediment deposition and erosion within the crater shaped the geologic formations visible on the surface today. The discovery of lake sediments reinforces the hope that traces of life might be found in soil and rock samples collected by Perseverance.

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The underground network: Decoding the dynamics of plant-fungal symbiosis

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The intricate dance of nature often unfolds in mysterious ways, hidden from the naked eye. At the heart of this enigmatic tango lies a vital partnership: the symbiosis between plants and a type of fungi known as arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. New groundbreaking research delves into this partnership, revealing key insights that deepen our understanding of plant-AM fungi interactions and could lead to advances in sustainable agriculture.

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Student discovers 200-million-year-old flying reptile

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Gliding winged-reptiles were amongst the ancient crocodile residents of the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England, researchers at the have revealed.

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Groundbreaking discovery enables cost-effective and eco-friendly green hydrogen production

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A research team has developed a novel catalyst for the high-efficiency and stable production of high-purity green hydrogen.

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New research challenges hunter-gatherer narrative

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Analysis of the remains of 24 individuals from the Wilamaya Patjxa and Soro Mik'aya Patjxa burial sites in Peru shows that early human diets in the Andes Mountains were composed of 80 percent plant matter and 20 percent meat.

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The megalodon was less mega than previously believed

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A new study shows the Megalodon, a gigantic shark that went extinct 3.6 million years ago, was more slender than earlier studies suggested. This finding changes scientists' understanding of Megalodon behavior, ancient ocean life, and why the sharks went extinct.

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Uncovering the secrets behind the silent flight of owls

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Owls produce negligible noise while flying. While many studies have linked the micro-fringes in owl wings to their silent flight, the exact mechanisms have been unclear. Now, a team of researchers has uncovered the effects of these micro-fringes on the sound and aerodynamic performance of owl wings through computational fluid dynamic simulations. Their findings can inspire biomimetic designs for the development of low-noise fluid machinery.

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Scientists advance affordable, sustainable solution for flat-panel displays and wearable tech

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Scientists have developed 'supramolecular ink,' a new 3D-printable OLED (organic light-emitting diode) material made of inexpensive, Earth-abundant elements instead of costly scarce metals. The advance could enable more affordable and environmentally sustainable OLED flat-panel displays as well as 3D-printable wearable technologies and lighting.

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The fountain of youth is. a T cell?

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Scientists have found a way to reprogram T cells to fight aging. After using them to eliminate specific cells in mice, the scientists discovered they lived healthier lives and didn't develop aging-associated conditions like obesity and diabetes. Just one dose provided young mice with lifelong benefits and rejuvenated older mice.

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Astronomers unravel mysteries of planet formation and evolution in distant planetary system

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TOI-1136, a dwarf star located more than 270 light years from Earth, is host to six confirmed exoplanets and a seventh as yet unconfirmed candidate. The system has provided a rich source of information on planet formation and evolution in a young solar system. Researchers used a variety of tools to compile radial velocity and transit timing variation readings to derive highly precise measurements of the exoplants' masses, orbital information and atmospheres.

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Autonomous synthesis robot uses AI to speed up chemical discovery

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Chemists have developed an autonomous chemical synthesis robot with an integrated AI-driven machine learning unit. Dubbed 'RoboChem', the benchtop device can outperform a human chemist in terms of speed and accuracy while also displaying a high level of ingenuity. As the first of its kind, it could significantly accelerate chemical discovery of molecules for pharmaceutical and many other applications.

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New video camera system captures the colored world that animals see, in motion

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A new camera system allows ecologists and filmmakers to produce videos that accurately replicate the colors that different animals see in natural settings.

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Fast-charging lithium battery seeks to eliminate 'range anxiety'

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Engineers have created a new lithium battery that can charge in under five minutes -- faster than any such battery on the market -- while maintaining stable performance over extended cycles of charging and discharging.

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World's first successful embryo transfer in rhinos paves the way for saving the northern white rhinos from extinction

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Scientists have succeeded in achieving the world's first pregnancy of a rhinoceros after an embryo transfer. The southern white rhino embryo was produced in vitro from collected egg cells and sperm and transferred into a southern white rhino surrogate mother at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya on September 24, 2023. The BioRescue team confirmed a pregnancy of 70 days with a well-developed 6.4 cm long male embryo.

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Water, water everywhere and now we may have drops to drink

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Researchers have achieved a major breakthrough in Redox Flow Desalination (RFD), an emerging electrochemical technique that can turn seawater into potable drinking water and also store affordable renewable energy.

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A large percentage of European plastic sent to Vietnam ends up in nature

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Despite strict EU regulations on plastic recycling, there is little oversight on plastic waste shipped from the EU to Vietnam. A large percentage of the exported European plastic cannot be recycled and gets dumped in nature, according to recent research.

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What coffee with cream can teach us about quantum physics

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A new advancement in theoretical physics could, one day, help engineers develop new kinds of computer chips that might store information for longer in very small objects.

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New model predicts how shoe properties affect a runner's performance

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A new model predicts how shoe properties will affect a runner's performance. The model could be a tool for designers looking to push the boundaries of sneaker design.

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Global groundwater depletion is accelerating, but is not inevitable

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Groundwater is rapidly declining across the globe, often at accelerating rates. Researchers now present the largest assessment of groundwater levels around the world, spanning nearly 1,700 aquifers. In addition to raising the alarm over declining water resources, the work offers instructive examples of where things are going well, and how groundwater depletion can be solved.

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New pieces in the puzzle of first life on Earth

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Microorganisms were the first forms of life on our planet. The clues are written in 3.5 billion-year-old rocks by geochemical and morphological traces, such as chemical compounds or structures that these organisms left behind. However, it is still not clear when and where life originated on Earth and when a diversity of species developed in these early microbial communities.

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Chemists use the blockchain to simulate over 4 billion chemical reactions essential to the origins of life

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Cryptocurrency is usually 'mined' through the blockchain by asking a computer to perform a complicated mathematical problem in exchange for tokens of cryptocurrency. But now a team of chemists have repurposed this process, asking computers to instead generate the largest network ever created of chemical reactions which may have given rise to prebiotic molecules on early Earth.

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Using fMRI, new vision study finds promising model for restoring cone function

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Researchers identified a retinal disease to evaluate the success of gene and cell replacement therapy.

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