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Laser scarecrows could offer a sustainable solution to protect crops from birds
Laser scarecrows installed in an experimental flight enclosure in Gainesville, Florida, USA. Credit: University of Florida Crop damage caused by...
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Genetic variants underlying male bisexual behavior, risk-taking linked to more children, study suggests
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public domain Because same-sex sexual behavior does not result in offspring, evolutionary biologists have long wondered how genes...
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Perennial forest fires in Africa fueled by aerosol reactions
Credit: iScience (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.108533 Africa is on fire. This has been the case for thousands of years. The continent...
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Study finds high-fat diets harm immune, gut and brain health
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public domain A UC Riverside study that could motivate your New Year's resolutions shows that high-fat diets affect...
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Scientists show that reprogrammed fat cells support tumor growth
a, Quantification of lipid droplets by Oil-Red-O staining in undifferentiated 3T3-L1 and 3T3-L1 induced to differentiate in the presence of...
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Research team establishes framework to improve imaging diagnoses of brain tumors
Glioma of the left parietal lobe. Scanner with contrast enhancement. Credit: Mikhail Kalinin/CC BY-SA 3.0 Diffuse gliomas are malignant brain...
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Study reveals clues to how eastern equine encephalitis virus invades brain cells
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public domain An atomic-level investigation into how the eastern equine encephalitis virus binds to a key receptor and...
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Study shows human beliefs about medications could have dose-dependent effects on the brain
Graphic for study. Credit: Lily Armstrong-Davies, medical illustrator Mount Sinai researchers have shown for the first time that a person's...
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Study shows cost of hospital care for COVID-19 patients increased during pandemic
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public domain The average cost of care for hospitalized COVID-19 patients increased five times faster than the rate...
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Researchers create first functional graphene-based semiconductor
Credit: Georgia Institute of Technology Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created the world's first functional semiconductor made...
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