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October 28, 2020
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Lab-Grown Mini-Lungs Mimic the Real Thing -- Right Down to Coronavirus Infection

Oct. 22, 2020 — Researchers have developed a lab-grown living lung model that mimics the tiny air sacs of the lungs where coronavirus infection and serious lung ...
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Hot-Button Words Trigger Conservatives and Liberals Differently

Oct. 20, 2020 — Researchers have linked a brain region to what they call neural polarization, offering a glimpse into the partisan brain in the weeks leading up to what is arguably the most ...
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Octopus-Inspired Sucker Transfers Thin, Delicate Tissue Grafts and Biosensors

Oct. 16, 2020 — Thin tissue grafts and flexible electronics have a host of applications for wound healing, regenerative medicine and ...

Earphone Tracks Facial Expressions, Even With a Face Mask

Oct. 13, 2020 — Researchers have invented an earphone that can continuously track full facial expressions by observing the contour of the cheeks - and can then translate expressions into emojis or silent speech ...
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Customers Prefer Partitions Over Mannequins in Socially-Distanced Dining Rooms

Oct. 13, 2020 — Restaurants have had to get creative to enforce social distancing guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic, including utilizing mannequins. Others were more conservative and opted to place plastic or ...

Donors More Likely to Give to COVID Causes When Font Matches Message

Oct. 6, 2020 — Appeals seeking donations to help fight hunger during the COVID-19 pandemic were more successful when the typeface in which the appeal was written mirrored the tone of the donation request, a new ...

Higher Narcissism May Be Linked With More Political Participation

Oct. 2, 2020 — A politically engaged electorate is key to any thriving democracy, but not everyone participates in elections and other political activities. New research found that people who are narcissistic may ...

Element in Blood Is Part of Human -- And Hibernating Squirrel -- Stress Response, Study Reveals

Oct. 1, 2020 — A new study shows that part of the stress response in people and animals involves increasing the levels of naturally circulating iodide in blood. The discovery demonstrates a biological mechanism ...

Survey Finds American Support for Human-Animal Chimera Research

Oct. 1, 2020 — In September 2015, the US National Institutes of Health placed a funding moratorium on research that involves introducing human pluripotent stem cells into animal embryos. To assess attitudes on ...

Fecal Transplantation Can Restore the Gut Microbiota of C-Section Babies

Oct. 1, 2020 — Birth by Cesarean section is detrimental to normal gut microbiota development. Researchers demonstrated that the intestinal microbiota development can be restored by postnatal, orally-delivered ...
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The Ancient Neanderthal Hand in Severe COVID-19

Sep. 30, 2020 — Genetic variants that leave their carrier more susceptible to severe COVID-19 are inherited from Neanderthals, a new study ...

Wearable Exosuit That Lessens Muscle Fatigue Could Redesign the Future of Work

Sep. 29, 2020 — A new clothing-like exoskeleton can reduce back muscle fatigue and providing needed physical relief to material handlers, medical professionals and frontline ...

Discovery Enables Adult Skin to Regenerate Like a Newborn's

Sep. 29, 2020 — A newly identified genetic factor allows adult skin to repair itself like the skin of a newborn. The discovery has implications for wound treatment and preventing some of the aging process in skin. ...

Mussels Connect Antibodies to Treat Cancer

Sep. 29, 2020 — A research team has developed an innovative local anticancer immunotherapy technology using mussel ...

Unusual Climate Conditions Influenced WWI Mortality and Subsequent Influenza Pandemic

Sep. 24, 2020 — Scientists have spotted a once-in-a-century climate anomaly during World War I that likely increased mortality during the war and the influenza pandemic in the years that ...

New Brain Cell-Like Nanodevices Work Together to Identify Mutations in Viruses

Sep. 24, 2020 — Scientists have described a new nanodevice that acts almost identically to a brain cell. Furthermore, they have shown that these synthetic brain cells can be joined together to form intricate ...

When Bots Do the Negotiating, Humans More Likely to Engage in Deceptive Techniques

Sep. 23, 2020 — Researchers found that whether humans would embrace a range of deceptive and sneaky negotiating techniques was dependent both on the humans' prior negotiating experience in negotiating as well ...

Giant Spider Provides Promise of Pain Relief for Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Sep. 21, 2020 — Molecules from the venom of one of the world's largest spiders could help researchers tailor pain blockers for people with irritable bowel syndrome ...

Next-Gen Organoids Grow and Function Like Real Tissues

Sep. 16, 2020 — Bioengineers have created miniature intestines in a dish that match up anatomically and functionally to the real thing better than any other lab-grown tissue models. The biological complexity and ...

Brain Circuitry Underlying Dissociative Experiences

Sep. 16, 2020 — Scientists identified key brain circuitry that plays a role in the mysterious experience called dissociation, in which people can feel disconnected from their own body and from ...

Future Autonomous Machines May Build Trust Through Emotion

Sep. 15, 2020 — Research has extended the state-of-the-art in autonomy by providing a more complete picture of how actions and nonverbal signals contribute to promoting cooperation. Researchers suggested guidelines ...

Artificial Intelligence System Developed to Help Better Select Embryos for Implantation

Sep. 15, 2020 — Researchers are developing an artificial intelligence system with the goal of improving IVF success by helping embryologists objectively select embryos most likely to result in a healthy ...

Quantum Thermometer Using Nanodiamonds Senses a 'Fever' in Tiny Worms C. Elegans

Sep. 11, 2020 — Measuring the temperature of objects at a nanometer-scale has been a long challenge, especially in living biological samples, because of the lack of precise and reliable nanothermometers. An ...

Experiments Reveal Why Human-Like Robots Elicit Uncanny Feelings

Sep. 10, 2020 — Experiments reveal a dynamic process that leads to the uncanny valley, with implications for both the design of robots and for understanding how we perceive one another as ...
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