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Study Discovers Enormous, Intermediate-Age Star Cluster in the Scutum Constellation Written by AZoQuantumJun 3 2021 Under the guidance of the Stellar Astrophysics Group from the University of Alicante (UA), an international group of astrophysicists has found a huge cluster of stars of intermediate age in the direction of the Scutum constellation. Region of the sky in which Valparaíso (1) is located. Image Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC) The study was also led by the Instituto de Astrof...

New Systematic Framework Could Help Realize Emission Reduction Targets Written by AZoCleantechJun 3 2021 Organizations, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), often review the feasibility of climate scenarios but it is not known what drives these feasibility concerns and whether they can actually be accomplished in practice. Image Credit: shutterstock.com/Bikeworldtravel A recent systematic framework could allow researchers to understand the kinds of aspects that need to ...

For the first time, an interdisciplinary group from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces has developed a laser-driven technology that allows them to make nanoparticles like nickel oxides, cobalt, and copper.

While DNA is often idealized as the "molecule of life", it is also a highly sophisticated polymer that can be used for next-generation materials. Beyond the fact that it can store information, further fascinating aspects of DNA are its geometric and topological properties, such as knotting and super-coiling.

Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the most common lethal gynaecological cancer. Ovarian cancer is usually treated with platinum-based chemotherapy; however, a significant number of patients are resistant to such treatments and relapse soon afterwards.

Lifting FDA restrictions on mifepristone could normalize medication abortion In a new study published online in spring 2021 and in the July issue of the journal Contraception, University of Chicago Medicine investigators and colleagues interviewed primary care providers in Illinois about their interest in providing medication abortion care and found that lifting FDA restrictions on mifepristone to allow pharmacy dispensing could normalize medication abortion, facilitate its use in primary care...

Light-controlled on/off switch helps control biological clock in cultured cells, explanted tissue The biological clock is present in almost all cells of an organism. As more and more evidence emerges that clocks in certain organs could be out of sync, there is a need to investigate and reset these clocks locally. Scientists from the Netherlands and Japan introduced a light-controlled on/off switch to a kinase inhibitor, which affects clock function. This gives them control of the biological clo...

At the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, a study performed by scientists discloses that the use of corn ethanol is decreasing the carbon footprint and reducing greenhouse gases.

Throughout the pandemic, doctors have seen evidence that men with COVID-19 fare worse, on average, than women with the infection.

Study highlights the importance of sensory connections in fear learning Has your heart ever started to race at the thought of an upcoming deadline for work? Or has the sight of an unknown object in a dark room made you jump? Well, you can probably thank your amygdala for that. The small almond-shaped brain structure is central to how we perceive and process fear. As we start to learn to associate fear with cues in our environment, neuronal connections within the amygdala are dynamically altered...