For The Better

New research shows that nearly 28% of all electric scooters reported injuries were head and neck injuries.

Nanodecoys made from human lung spheroid cells (LSCs) can bind to and neutralize SARS-CoV-2, promoting viral clearance and reducing lung injury in a macaque model of COVID-19. By mimicking the receptor that the virus binds to rather than targeting the …

With sorghum poised to become an important crop grown by Pennsylvania farmers, researchers tested more than 150 germplasm lines of the plant for resistance to a fungus likely to hamper its production.

Physicists have used ultrashort laser pulses to probe the dynamics of photoelectron emission in tungsten crystals.

A long-term passive rewilding study has shown that natural woodland regeneration could make a significant contribution to meeting the UK’s ambitious tree planting targets – potentially at no cost and within relatively short timescales. The research fou…

Researchers studying prions — misfolded proteins that cause lethal incurable diseases — have identified the surface features of human prions responsible for their replication in the brain.

The yellow fever mosquito spreads multiple untreatable viruses in humans and is primarily controlled using a pesticide called permethrin. However, many mosquitoes are evolving resistance to the pesticide. A new study identifies mutations linked to diff…

When animals are hot, they eat less. This potentially fatal phenomenon has been largely overlooked in wild animals, explain researchers.

Weddell seals, the southernmost born mammal, are known as champion divers. But they don’t begin life that way. Researchers examined the development of diving behavior in Weddell seal pups and found that they time their dives with their mother but likel…

Once thought to be extinct, lobe-finned coelacanths are enormous fish that live deep in the ocean. Now, researchers have evidence that, in addition to their impressive size, coelacanths also can live for an impressively long time — perhaps nearly a ce…

Many diseases caused by a dysregulated immune system, such as allergies, asthma and autoimmunity, can be traced back to events in the first few months after birth. To date, the mechanisms behind the development of the immune system have not been fully …

To the human eye, most stationary objects appear to be just that — still, and completely at rest. Yet if we were handed a quantum lens, allowing us to see objects at the scale of individual atoms, what was an apple sitting idly on our desk would appea…

A new treatment approach focused on fixing cell damage, rather than fighting the virus directly, is effective against SARS-CoV-2 in lab models. If found safe for human use, this anti-viral treatment would make COVID-19 symptoms milder and speed up reco…