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• Genomes of two millipede species shed light on their evolution, development and physiology
• Social media use linked with depression, secondary trauma during COVID-19
• Many ventilation systems may increase risk of COVID-19 exposure, study suggests
• Volcanic ash could help reduce CO2 associated with climate change
• Are China's pollution remediation efforts making the planet warmer?
• Untapped potential exists for blending hydropower, floating solar panels
• Wearable exosuit that lessens muscle fatigue could redesign the future of work
• Discovery enables adult skin to regenerate like a newborn's
• Marine biodiversity reshuffles under warmer and sea ice-free Pacific Arctic
• Second alignment plane of solar system discovered
• Genetic risk of developing obesity is driven by variants that affect the brain
• Cosmic diamonds formed during gigantic planetary collisions
• Astrophysicist probes cosmic 'dark matter detector'
• Study suggests link between unexplained miscarriages and how women perceive men's body odor
• Lessons from a cooling climate
• Understanding ghost particle interactions
• 'Insect Armageddon': Low doses of the insecticide, Imidacloprid, cause blindness in insects
• Naked prehistoric monsters! Evidence that prehistoric flying reptiles probably had feathers refuted
• Spreading ghost forests on NC coast may contribute to climate change
• Complex interplay among cells guides them to where they need to go
• Natural capital a missing piece in climate policy
• Increasing stability decreases ocean productivity, reduces carbon burial
• Fungal compound inhibits important group of proteins
• Shorebirds more likely to divorce after successful breeding
• How methanogens are able to render oxygen molecules harmless
• Memory training for the immune system
• Fine-tuning stem cell metabolism prevents hair loss
• Identical signs of brain damage in sleep apnea and Alzheimer's

Genomes of two millipede species shed light on their evolution, development and physiology Posted: 29 Sep 2020 12:21 PM PDT Researchers have sequenced and analyzed complete genomes from two very different millipede species. The study provides important insights into arthropod evolution, and highlights the genetic underpinnings of unique features of millipede physiology.

Social media use linked with depression, secondary trauma during COVID-19 Posted: 29 Sep 2020 12:21 PM PDT Can't stop checking social media for the latest COVID-19 health information? You might want to take a break, according to researchers who discovered that excessive use of social media for COVID-19 health information is related to both depression and secondary trauma.

Many ventilation systems may increase risk of COVID-19 exposure, study suggests Posted: 29 Sep 2020 10:03 AM PDT Ventilation systems in many modern office buildings, which are designed to keep temperatures comfortable and increase energy efficiency, may increase the risk of exposure to the coronavirus, particularly during the coming winter, according to new research.

Volcanic ash could help reduce CO2 associated with climate change Posted: 29 Sep 2020 09:37 AM PDT Scientists investigating ways of removing carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases from our atmosphere believe volcanic ash could play an important role.

Are China's pollution remediation efforts making the planet warmer? Posted: 29 Sep 2020 09:37 AM PDT A 10-year effort by China to improve air quality and reduce pollution-related health risks has caused warming in areas across the northern hemisphere, according to new work.

Untapped potential exists for blending hydropower, floating solar panels Posted: 29 Sep 2020 09:37 AM PDT Hybrid systems of floating solar panels and hydropower plants may hold the technical potential to produce a significant portion of the electricity generated annually across the globe, according to a new analysis.

Wearable exosuit that lessens muscle fatigue could redesign the future of work Posted: 29 Sep 2020 09:35 AM PDT A new clothing-like exoskeleton can reduce back muscle fatigue and providing needed physical relief to material handlers, medical professionals and frontline workers.

Discovery enables adult skin to regenerate like a newborn's Posted: 29 Sep 2020 09:35 AM PDT 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. Researchers identified a factor in the skin of baby mice controlling hair follicle formation. When it was activated in adult mice, their skin was able to heal wounds without scarring. The reformed skin even included fur and could make goose bumps.

Marine biodiversity reshuffles under warmer and sea ice-free Pacific Arctic Posted: 29 Sep 2020 09:35 AM PDT Climate warming will alter marine community compositions as species are expected to shift poleward, significantly impacting the Arctic marine ecosystem.

Second alignment plane of solar system discovered Posted: 29 Sep 2020 09:34 AM PDT A study of comet motions indicates that the Solar System has a second alignment plane. Analytical investigation of the orbits of long-period comets shows that the aphelia of the comets, the point where they are farthest from the Sun, tend to fall close to either the well-known ecliptic plane where the planets reside or a newly discovered 'empty ecliptic.' This has important implications for models of how comets originally formed in the Solar System.

Genetic risk of developing obesity is driven by variants that affect the brain Posted: 29 Sep 2020 09:34 AM PDT Some people are at higher risk of developing obesity because they possess genetic variants that affect how the brain processes sensory information and regulates feeding and behavior. The findings support a growing body of evidence that obesity is a disease whose roots are in the brain.

Cosmic diamonds formed during gigantic planetary collisions Posted: 29 Sep 2020 09:34 AM PDT Geoscientists have found the largest extraterrestrial diamonds ever discovered - a few tenths of a millimeter in size nevertheless - inside meteorites. Together with an international team of researchers, they have now been able to prove that these diamonds formed in the early period of our solar system when minor planets collided together or with large asteroids. These new data disprove the theory that they originated deep inside planets - similar to diamonds formed on Earth - at least the size of Mercury.

Astrophysicist probes cosmic 'dark matter detector' Posted: 29 Sep 2020 09:34 AM PDT An astrophysicist is searching the light coming from a distant, and extremely powerful celestial object, for what may be the most elusive substance in the universe: dark matter.

Study suggests link between unexplained miscarriages and how women perceive men's body odor Posted: 29 Sep 2020 09:34 AM PDT Women who have suffered unexplained repeated pregnancy loss (uRPL) have altered perceptions and brain responses to male body odors, in comparison to those with no history of uRPL, suggests a new study.

Lessons from a cooling climate Posted: 29 Sep 2020 09:33 AM PDT Usually, talk of carbon sequestration focuses on plants: forests storing carbon in the trunks of massive trees, algae blooming and sinking to the seabed, or perhaps peatlands locking carbon away for tens of thousands of years. While it's true that plants take up large amounts of carbon from the atmosphere, the rocks themselves mediate a great deal of the carbon cycle over geological timescales. Processes like volcano eruptions, mountain building and erosion are responsible for moving carbon through Earth's atmosphere, surface and mantle.

Understanding ghost particle interactions Posted: 28 Sep 2020 04:12 PM PDT Scientists have constructed a nuclear physics model capturing the interactions between neutrinos and atomic nuclei. This model building is part of a larger project to understand the role of neutrinos in the early universe.

'Insect Armageddon': Low doses of the insecticide, Imidacloprid, cause blindness in insects Posted: 28 Sep 2020 12:29 PM PDT New research provides important evidence on the role of insecticides on the longevity of insect population.

Naked prehistoric monsters! Evidence that prehistoric flying reptiles probably had feathers refuted Posted: 28 Sep 2020 10:31 AM PDT Pterosaur experts have examined the evidence that these creatures had feathers and believe they were in fact bald.

Spreading ghost forests on NC coast may contribute to climate change Posted: 28 Sep 2020 09:51 AM PDT A new study found the spread of ghost forests across a coastal region of North Carolina may have implications for global warming.

Complex interplay among cells guides them to where they need to go Posted: 28 Sep 2020 09:51 AM PDT Many cells in our bodies are on the move and somehow seem to "know" where to go. But how do they learn the location of their destination? This question is key to understanding phenomena such as the renewal of cells in our body, the migration of cancer cells, and especially how wounds heal.

Natural capital a missing piece in climate policy Posted: 28 Sep 2020 09:51 AM PDT Clean air, clean water and a functioning ecosystem are considered priceless. Yet accounting for the economic value of nature has large implications for climate policy, a new study shows.

Increasing stability decreases ocean productivity, reduces carbon burial Posted: 28 Sep 2020 09:51 AM PDT As the globe warms, the atmosphere is becoming more unstable, but the oceans are becoming more stable, according to an international team of climate scientists, who say that the increase in stability is greater than predicted, and a stable ocean will absorb less carbon and be less productive.

Fungal compound inhibits important group of proteins Posted: 28 Sep 2020 09:50 AM PDT Researchers have found that a compound inhibits a group of proteins called BMP receptors. This compound, called cercosporamide, was previously only known to inhibit a different group of proteins. When overactive, BMP receptors can lead to several diseases. Studying compounds that may counteract this overactivity may lead to more treatment options in the future.

Shorebirds more likely to divorce after successful breeding Posted: 28 Sep 2020 09:50 AM PDT Researchers found that a range of factors affected the fidelity and parenting behavior of plovers, rather than being defined by the species.

How methanogens are able to render oxygen molecules harmless Posted: 28 Sep 2020 09:50 AM PDT We humans need oxygen to breath - for a lot of microbes it is a lethal poison. That is why microorganisms have developed ways to render oxygen molecules harmless. Microbiologists have now succeeded in decrypting such a mechanism. They show, how methane-generating microbes transform oxygen into water without causing any damage to the cell. These findings are relevant for future bio-inspired processes.

Memory training for the immune system Posted: 28 Sep 2020 09:50 AM PDT The immune system will memorize the pathogen after an infection and can therefore react promptly after reinfection with the same pathogen. Now, scientists have deciphered new details of this process.

Fine-tuning stem cell metabolism prevents hair loss Posted: 28 Sep 2020 09:50 AM PDT An international research team has shown in mice that Rictor, a protein that helps to regulate the growth, energy, and oxygen consumption of cells, plays a key role in the cellular metabolism and longevity of hair follicle stem cells.

Identical signs of brain damage in sleep apnea and Alzheimer's Posted: 28 Sep 2020 07:34 AM PDT New research shows damage in the brain starts in the same place and spreads in the same way in sleep apnea, as in Alzheimer's disease. The study is the first to find Alzheimer's-like amyloid plaques in the brains of people with clinically-verified obstructive sleep apnea, a condition that affects more than 936 million people worldwide.

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