The clinicians concluded that there is an ongoing need to understand and correct racial bias in pulse oximetry and other forms of medical technology.
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New research reveals that mammals living in South Africa’s Greater Kruger National Park fear human voices more than lion vocalizations or hunting sounds.
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The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three scientists for their work on using light in the study of electrons.
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Were the first animals predators or filter feeders like the sponges living in today’s oceans? And what role did symbiosis with algae play, as with reef-building corals?
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Researchers have pieced together the skull of a 455-million-year-old ancient jawless fish, Eriptychius americanus, to fill a gap in the evolutionary history of the vertebrate skull.
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As centuries passed, the fragments were covered by layers of dust and soil and exposed to a continuous cycle of changes in temperature, moisture and surrounding minerals. This caused the molecules in the glass to rearrange and recombine.
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A team of researchers discovered that high energy electrons in Earth’s plasma sheet are contributing to weathering processes on the Moon's surface and, importantly, the electrons may have aided the formation of water on the lunar surface.
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Researchers used single cell transcriptomics to identify a new cell type that had characteristics of an astrocyte, while expressing the molecular machinery needed for glutamate transmission.
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Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behavior and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior have converted a former barn into a cutting-edge technology lab for complex behavioral analysis.
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Three clinical studies of more than 1,500 children tested whether objective measurements can help diagnose children with autism before the age of three years.
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Imperial researchers have filmed, for the first time, the activity of bodily "pressure sensors" whose discoverers won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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The reconstruction shows the feasibility of recording and translating brain waves to capture the musical elements of speech, as well as the syllables.
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Scientists used data from Curiosity’s exploration of Mars’ Gale Crater to examine geometric patterns of salt-filled mudcracks in 3.6-billion-year-old mudstones.
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In a pilot study of people who underwent heart surgery, researchers report they have found microplastics in many heart tissues.
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Engineers have developed nanoscale tattoos—dots and wires that adhere to live cells—in a breakthrough that puts researchers one step closer to tracking the health of individual cells.
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