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Dating a Girl Using a Baby

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Registrations open for online European Conference of Science Journalism, Sept. 1, 2020

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(European Conference of Science Journalism) The ECSJ2020 European Conference of Science Journalism organised by Science Writers in Italy (SWIM), will take place - in Trieste and online -- on 1 and 2 September, right before the Euro Science Open Forum 2020. It will be a hybrid conference, fully available via internet. Participation is free of charge, but registration is mandatory. The registration form can be accessed through the website of the conference at http://www.ecsj2020.eu, where updates on the program will also be published.



Most close relatives of birds neared the potential for powered flight but few crossed its thresholds

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An international study led by HKU Research Assistant Professor Dr. Michael Pittman produced an updated evolutionary tree of early birds and their closest relatives to reconstruct powered flight potential, showing it evolved at least three times. Many ancestors of the closest bird relatives neared the thresholds of powered flight potential, suggesting broad experimentation with wing-assisted locomotion before flight evolved. The findings were published in the journal Current Biology.

How building features impact veterans with PTSD

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The built environment, where someone lives (private) or works (public), influences a person's daily life and can help, or hinder, their mental health. This is especially true for those with mental health conditions such as PTSD, or post-traumatic stress disorder.

New research may help identify sex trafficking networks

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Characterizing traits of online activity may help to rescue victims of sex trafficking. While scientists have tried to help pinpoint outfits participating in trafficking, few scientific studies have looked of how the digital infrastructure behind the online sex market operates. A paper from Mayank Kejriwal, a research assistant professor at the USC Information Sciences Institute and Yao Gu (currently at Amazon) provides some insights on the specific digital practices of potential sex trafficking networks.

A new way to fabricate MXene films that block electromagnetic interference

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A multi-institution research team led by Andre ? D. Taylor, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering demonstrated a novel approach to MXene fabrication that could lead to methods for at-scale production of MXene freestanding films: drop-casting onto prepatterned hydrophobic substrates. Their method led to a 38% enhancement of EMI shielding efficiency over conventional methods.

Study pinpoints five most likely causes of post-traumatic stress in police officers

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A combination of genetic and emotional differences may lead to post-traumatic stress (PTS) in police officers, a new study finds. Based on biological studies of officers in major cities, the study showed that the most significant PTS predictors are the tendency to startle at sudden sounds, early career displays of mental health symptoms (e.g., anxiety and depression), and certain genetic differences, including some known to influence a person's immune system.

McKee CTE staging scheme accurate in diagnosing severity, location of disease

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Since 2008, researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and VA Boston Healthcare System have studied Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), a progressive brain disease associated with repetitive head impacts that has been diagnosed after death in the brains of American football players and other contact sport athletes as well as members of the armed services

ETSU, Virginia Tech awarded $2.6 million for project

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(Virginia Tech) People are seeking help for opioid-use disorder in ever-growing numbers, but only 10 percent of them stay in treatment for recovery. Those lagging recovery rates are a concern for scientists and communities fighting the opioid crisis in Appalachia. The National Institute on Drug Abuse recently awarded a $2.6 million grant to researchers at East Tennessee State University and Virginia Tech to develop studies on how best to provide peer support services for individuals being treated for opioid use disorder.

Understanding matter at atom-crushing densities

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(University of California - Davis) UC Davis will be part of a new Center for Matter at Atomic Pressures focusing on understanding the physics and astrophysical implications of matter under pressures so high that the structure of individual atoms is disrupted. The CMAP will be funded with $12.96 million from the NSF and hosted at the University of Rochester in collaboration with researchers at UC Davis; MIT; Princeton; the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Buffalo; and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

University of Missouri awarded $1.5 million to improve traffic safety, reduce congestion

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(University of Missouri-Columbia) A $1.5 million grant from a coalition of the Missouri Department of Transportation, St. Charles County Government and the East-West Gateway Council of Governments will allow engineers at the University of Missouri to develop a real-time traffic management system over the next year for different public agencies -- local, county and state governments -- to seamlessly share their transportation data between agencies. The system will first be used in the greater St. Louis area.

NIH grant to UC Riverside physicist focuses on how pathogens evolve

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(University of California - Riverside) For several years, physicist John Barton at UC Riverside, has been working on developing models to understand and predict how pathogens, such as HIV, evolve. This research pursuit has just received support from the National Institutes of Health. Barton, an assistant professor, has been awarded a Maximizing Investigators' Research Award for early-stage investigators, allowing his lab to work on developing methods to understand how different mutations affect the ability of organisms to survive and reproduce.

Nepal lockdown halved health facility births and increased stillbirths and newborn deaths

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COVID-19 response has resulted in major reductions in health facility births in Nepal and widened inequalities, with significantly increased institutional stillbirth and neonatal mortality, according to a new study in the Lancet Global Health.The research was led Dr Ashish KC and Nepal colleagues with Uppsala University, Sweden, and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. It is the first published study with primary data on the impact of a COVID-19 lockdown on births in hospital, and measuring stillbirths and newborn deaths.





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