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Heroin users aware of fentanyl, but at high risk of overdosing
(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) Most heroin users in Baltimore, a city heavily affected by the opioid epidemic, recognize that the heroin they buy is now almost always laced with the highly dangerous synthetic opioid fent...
A new way to map cell regulatory networks
(Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center) A new mathematical method developed by researchers at Cincinnati Children's and New York University may soon make it much easier to conduct more of the complex data analysis needed to drive ad...
NREL pioneers cleaner route to upcycle plastics into superior products
(DOE/National Renewable Energy Laboratory) Researchers at the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have discovered a method of plastics upcycling -- transforming discarded products into new, high-value materials...
Tornado Activity Is Shifting, But Is It Due to Warming?
The timing and frequency of tornadoes has changed, and events are becoming costlier-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The cancer-causing contaminant in everyday food
(World Scientific) Acrylamide is described as 'extremely hazardous' and 'probably carcinogenic to humans.' Its presence in popular foods, including fried, baked, roasted and toasted potato and cereal products, as well as coffee, h...
A new technology developed to detect and analyze colorless and transparent biomaterials
(DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology)) DGIST Professor Jae Eun Jang's team, plasmonic nano structure developed a technology that generates colorless and transparent biomaterials. Will contribute to biomaterial detection fo...
A Second Person has been Effectively "Cured" of HIV
10 years after the so-called “Berlin Patient,” a second man has been put into sustained remission-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Small brains, big picture: Study unveils C. elegans' microscopic mysteries
(Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University) Researchers discover how brain cells in the microscopic worm C. elegans send electrical signals.
Singing for science: How the arts can help students who struggle most
(Johns Hopkins University) Incorporating the arts -- rapping, dancing, drawing -- into science lessons can help low-achieving students retain more knowledge and possibly help students of all ability levels be more creative in their learning, finds a...
Study: Climate change is leading to unpredictable ecosystem disruption for migratory birds
(Cornell University) Using data on 77 North American migratory bird species from the eBird citizen-science program, scientists at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology say that, in as little as four decades, it may be very difficult to predict how climate c...