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• Discovery about how cancer cells evade immune defenses inspires new treatment approach
• Vaping could cloud your thoughts, new studies suggest
• Important milestone in the creation of a quantum computer
• Quick look under the skin
• Carbon capture: Faster, greener way of producing carbon spheres
• Music-induced emotions can be predicted from brain scans
• Primordial black holes and the search for dark matter from the multiverse
• Discovery boosts theory that life on Earth arose from RNA-DNA mix
• Study suggests link between word choices and extraverts
• High-speed atomic force microscopy takes on intrinsically disordered proteins
• Chemists develop a new drug discovery strategy for 'undruggable' drug targets
• Switching DNA functions on and off by means of light
• Do toddlers learning to spoon-feed seek different information from caregivers' hands and faces?
• New research makes strong case for restoring Hong Kong's lost oyster reefs
• Shapeshifting crystals: Varying stability in different forms of gallium selenide monolayers
• The ABCs of species evolution

Discovery about how cancer cells evade immune defenses inspires new treatment approach Posted: 28 Dec 2020 08:45 AM PST Researchers have learned how chromosomal instability allows cancer cells to avoid immune defenses and metastasize (spread). The discovery opens up potential new avenues for treatment.

Vaping could cloud your thoughts, new studies suggest Posted: 28 Dec 2020 07:54 AM PST Both adults and kids who vape were more likely to report difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions than their non-vaping, non-smoking peers on two annual national surveys. Survey results also suggest that kids were more likely to experience mental fog if they started vaping before the age of 14.

Important milestone in the creation of a quantum computer Posted: 28 Dec 2020 07:18 AM PST One of the obstacles for progress in the quest for a working quantum computer has been that the working devices that go into a quantum computer and perform the actual calculations, the qubits, have hitherto been made by universities and in small numbers. But in recent years, a pan-European collaboration has been exploring everyday transistors -- that are present in billions in all our mobile phones -- for their use as qubits.

Quick look under the skin Posted: 28 Dec 2020 07:18 AM PST Imaging techniques enable a detailed look inside an organism. But interpreting the data is time-consuming and requires a great deal of experience. Artificial neural networks open up new possibilities: They require just seconds to interpret whole-body scans of mice and to segment and depict the organs in colors, instead of in various shades of gray. This facilitates the analysis considerably.

Carbon capture: Faster, greener way of producing carbon spheres Posted: 28 Dec 2020 07:18 AM PST A fast, green and one-step method for producing porous carbon spheres, which are a vital component for carbon capture technology and for new ways of storing renewable energy, has been developed. The method produces spheres that have good capacity for carbon capture, and it works effectively at a large scale.

Music-induced emotions can be predicted from brain scans Posted: 28 Dec 2020 07:18 AM PST Researchers have discovered what type of neural mechanisms are the basis for emotional responses to music. Altogether 102 research subjects listened to music that evokes emotions while their brain function was scanned with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Primordial black holes and the search for dark matter from the multiverse Posted: 28 Dec 2020 06:54 AM PST Astronomers are studying black holes that could have formed in the early universe, before stars and galaxies were born. Such primordial black holes (PBHs) could account for all or part of dark matter, be responsible for some of the observed gravitational waves signals, and seed supermassive black holes found in the center of our Galaxy and other galaxies.

Discovery boosts theory that life on Earth arose from RNA-DNA mix Posted: 28 Dec 2020 06:54 AM PST Chemists have made a discovery that supports a surprising new view of how life originated on our planet. They demonstrated that a simple compound called diamidophosphate (DAP), which was plausibly present on Earth before life arose, could have chemically knitted together tiny DNA building blocks called deoxynucleosides into strands of primordial DNA.

Study suggests link between word choices and extraverts Posted: 28 Dec 2020 06:54 AM PST Psychologists have found a link between extraverts and their word choices.

High-speed atomic force microscopy takes on intrinsically disordered proteins Posted: 28 Dec 2020 06:54 AM PST A pioneering high-speed atomic force microscope technology has now shed light on the structure and dynamics of some of life's most ubiquitous and inscrutable molecules - intrinsically disordered proteins.

Chemists develop a new drug discovery strategy for 'undruggable' drug targets Posted: 28 Dec 2020 06:54 AM PST A research team has developed a new drug discovery method targeting membrane proteins on live cells.

Switching DNA functions on and off by means of light Posted: 28 Dec 2020 06:54 AM PST Biochemists have developed a new strategy for controlling the biological functions of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) by means of light and therefore provide a tool to investigate processes which take place in cells.

Do toddlers learning to spoon-feed seek different information from caregivers' hands and faces? Posted: 28 Dec 2020 06:53 AM PST When toddlers begin to use a spoon to eat by themselves, what kind of interactions facilitate this behavior? To find out, an international research collaboration investigated the interactions between toddlers and their caregivers during mealtimes at a daycare center in Japan.

New research makes strong case for restoring Hong Kong's lost oyster reefs Posted: 28 Dec 2020 06:52 AM PST New research shows the enormous potential of restoring lost oyster reefs, bringing significant environmental benefits.

Shapeshifting crystals: Varying stability in different forms of gallium selenide monolayers Posted: 24 Dec 2020 08:31 AM PST Researchers investigate the structure and properties of a recently identified polymorph of gallium selenide crystal layer.

The ABCs of species evolution Posted: 23 Dec 2020 09:57 AM PST Scientists propose that a family of transporter proteins has played an important role in species evolution. One protein in particular, called ABCA1, was likely crucial for vertebrate evolution by helping regulate when signals involved in cell proliferation, differentiation and migration enter a cell. This process was necessary for vertebrates to develop into more complex organisms with sophisticated body structures.

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