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Life’s Stressors Linked to Health Decline in Multiple Sclerosis Patients

Two gorillas

Gorilla Resilience Unleashed: How Early Adversity Can’t Bring Them Down

Futuristic looking robot looking at a video monitor

AI could run a million microbial experiments per year

Field photo of woolly mammoth tusks, teeth and assorted bones collected on Wrangel Island by co-authors (and others) of the new Nature study. These specimens were not used in the study. They were found at least partly exposed while prospecting along river channels and banks. Image credit: Alexei Tikhonov

Surging testosterone found in male woolly mammoths

Dying brain illustration Credit Pixabay

Evidence of conscious-like activity in the dying brain

Trees seen from overhead

Tree diversity increases storage of carbon and nitrogen in forest soils, mitigating climate change

cancer cell illustration

AI predicts genetics of cancerous brain tumors in under 90 seconds

a rat

Sugar is processed differently in the brains of obesity-prone vs. obesity-resistant rats

An AI robot named "Pepper" already serves guests at some hotels, such as the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Las Vegas. Photo by Alex Knight on Unsplash

Robot: I’m sorry. Human: I don’t care anymore!

Key findings from the National Poll on Healthy Aging poll report on addictive eating signs among adults age 50-80.

1 in 8 Americans over 50 show signs of food addiction

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the distribution of dark matter in the center of the giant galaxy cluster Abell 1689, containing about 1,000 galaxies and trillions of stars. Dark matter is an invisible form of matter that accounts for most of the universe’s mass. Hubble cannot see the dark matter directly. Astronomers inferred its location by analyzing the effect of gravitational lensing, where light from galaxies behind Abell 1689 is distorted by intervening matter within the cluster. Researchers used the observed positions of 135 lensed images of 42 background galaxies to calculate the location and amount of dark matter in the cluster. They superimposed a map of these inferred dark matter concentrations, tinted blue, on an image of the cluster taken by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys. If the cluster’s gravity came only from the visible galaxies, the lensing distortions would be much weaker. The map reveals that the densest concentration of dark matter is in the cluster’s core. Abell 1689 resides 2.2 billion light-years from Earth. The image was taken in June 2002. Image credit: NASA, ESA, D. Coe (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, and Space Telescope Science Institute), N. Benitez (Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia, Spain), T. Broadhurst (University of the Basque Country, Spain), and H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University)

A new model for dark matter

Map of percentage change in transportation energy burden from current on-road vehicle stock to a new battery-electric vehicle. Negative percentages indicate energy cost savings for EVs compared to gasoline powered vehicles. Areas with the greatest savings, shown in green, include the West Coast states and parts of the East and South. Transportation energy burden is the percentage of household income spent on fueling with gasoline or charging with electricity. Adapted from Vega-Perkins et al. in Environmental Research Letters, January 2023.

EV transition will benefit most US vehicle owners, but lowest-income Americans could get left behind

Squirrel researcher walking along the Alaska Highway in the Yukon, Canada. Image credit: Ben Dantzer

Squirrels that gamble win big when it comes to evolutionary fitness

Peng Zhou uses a large lens to concentrate sunlight onto the water-splitting catalyst. Outdoors, the device was ten times more efficient than previous efforts at solar water splitting. Image credit: Brenda Ahearn/Michigan Engineering, Communications and Marketing

Cheap, sustainable hydrogen through solar power

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