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- How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs https://news.uchicago.edu/how-bioelectricity-could-regrow-limbs-and-organs 100 comments
- Black hole collisions could help us measure how fast the universe is expanding. Astrophysicists laid out a method for how to use pairs of colliding black holes to measure how fast our universe is expanding—and thus understand how the universe evolved, what it is made out of, and where it’s going. https://news.uchicago.edu/story/black-hole-collisions-could-help-us-measure-how-fast-universe-expanding 12 comments science
- Scientists release first analysis of rocks plucked from speeding asteroid Ryugu: what they found suggests that this asteroid is a piece of the same stuff that coalesced into our sun four-and-a-half billion years ago https://news.uchicago.edu/story/scientists-release-first-analysis-rocks-plucked-speeding-asteroid 69 comments science
- Researchers find that demographics alone don’t explain COVID-19 mortality rates; place matters too https://news.uchicago.edu/story/demographics-alone-dont-explain-covid-19-mortality-rates-place-matters-too 43 comments science
- For the first time, researchers visualize metabolic process at the single-cell level: Using a genetically encoded biosensor paired with artificial intelligence, researchers measured glycolysis, the process of turning glucose into energy, of single endothelial cells, the cells that line blood vessels https://news.uchicago.edu/story/first-time-researchers-visualize-metabolic-process-single-cell-level 3 comments science
- ‘There may not be a conflict after all’ in expanding universe debate https://news.uchicago.edu/story/there-may-not-be-conflict-after-all-expanding-universe-debate 8 comments space
- COVID-19 cases in India underreported by over 20 million, study says https://news.uchicago.edu/story/covid-19-cases-india-underreported-over-20-million-study-says 18 comments india
- Social values held with moral conviction can be used to justify violence. When people hold strong moral convictions and saw photos of violent protests congruent with their own views, a new study detected activation in the reward system in the brain—almost as if the violence was a ‘valuable’ thing. https://news.uchicago.edu/story/uchicago-study-explores-neural-mechanisms-behind-support-political-violence 3 comments science
- A team of scientists has announced the discovery of a simple modification that allows quantum systems to stay operational -- or 'coherent' -- 10,000 times longer than before. https://news.uchicago.edu/story/uchicago-scientists-discover-way-make-quantum-states-last-10000-times-longer 31 comments science
- In a breakthrough that could have implications across the healthcare, agriculture, and energy, researchers have developed an artificial intelligence-led process that uses big data to design new proteins. These artificial proteins rival those found in nature. https://news.uchicago.edu/story/machine-learning-reveals-recipe-building-artificial-proteins 7 comments science
- Investing in love and affection pays off for species that mate for life. Study shows some birds form long-term bonds to raise their young more efficiently. https://news.uchicago.edu/story/investing-love-and-affection-pays-species-mate-life 7 comments science
- Violence linked to loneliness, hypervigilance and chronic health problems. social isolation and loneliness were associated with limited physical activity, not taking medication properly, poor nutrition, binge drinking and smoking. https://news.uchicago.edu/story/violence-linked-loneliness-hypervigilance-and-chronic-health-problems 5 comments science
- Alex Eskin, UChicago math professor, awarded $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics for "revolutionary discoveries in the dynamics and geometry of moduli spaces of Abelian differentials, including the proof of the 'magic wand theorem' with Maryam Mirzakhani" (who sadly passed away in 2017). https://news.uchicago.edu/story/uchicago-mathematician-physicists-win-3-million-oscars-science 21 comments math
- Examining brain scans of more than 800 incarcerated men, a study found that individuals who had committed or attempted homicide had reduced gray matter when compared to those involved in other offenses. https://news.uchicago.edu/story/scientists-studied-brains-more-800-prisoners-heres-what-they-found 12 comments science
- Discovery of 100-million-year-old hagfish fossil leads to an evolutionary breakthrough https://news.uchicago.edu/story/fossilized-slime-ancient-eel-creature-shakes-vertebrate-family-tree 4 comments science
- [TIL] There is a difference in decision-making when the problem is told in a foreign language https://news.uchicago.edu/story/using-foreign-language-changes-moral-decisions 54 comments philosophy
- A new study analyzing behavior patterns of people across China shows that the traditional interdependent rice-farming culture of southern China has resulted in residents being more interdependent compared to their countrymen who hail from the more independent wheat-farming culture of northern China https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2018/04/26/observing-chinese-starbucks-patrons-reveals-what-their-ancestors-farmed-study 4 comments science
- Study demonstrates that giving sales associates more stable schedules leads to increased sales and labor productivity https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2018/03/28/stable-scheduling-increases-sales-and-employee-productivity-study-finds 54 comments science
- New research shows that people are more willing to eat foods that they find disgusting if those foods are presented in a foreign language. That’s the conclusion of a recent set of studies which could help win acceptance for environmentally sustainable foods that many people are unwilling to try. https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2018/02/01/describing-certain-foods-foreign-language-reduces-aversion 18 comments science
- Scientists create true molecular chain with interlocking loops (after 50 years of trying) https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2017/12/01/uchicago-scientists-craft-worlds-tiniest-interlinking-chains 3 comments science
- Air pollution cuts 3 years off Chinese lifespans. There are currently an estimated 4.5 billion people around the world exposed to levels of particulate air pollution that are at least twice what the World Health Organization (WHO) considers safe https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2017/09/11/air-pollution-cuts-three-years-lifespans-northern-china 6 comments science
- Communicating in a foreign language takes emotion out of decision-making https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2017/08/15/communicating-foreign-language-takes-emotion-out-decision-making 23 comments linguistics
- Book purchases of liberals and conservatives reveal echo chamber in the consumption of science https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2017/04/03/book-purchases-liberals-and-conservatives-reveal-partisan-division 23 comments science
- Heat from Earth's core could be an underlying force in plate tectonics. https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2017/01/17/heat-earths-core-could-be-underlying-force-plate-tectonics 6 comments science
- Community matters in suicide prevention, study finds. Fears of not living up to such ideals combined with the ease with which private information became public, due to social connectedness, left teens and their parents unwilling to seek help for mental health problems https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2016/09/09/community-matters-suicide-prevention-study-finds 4 comments science
- Acquiring ‘perfect’ pitch may be possible for some adults http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2015/05/28/acquiring-perfect-pitch-may-be-possible-some-adults 4 comments science
- Loneliness triggers cellular changes that can cause illness, study shows http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2015/11/23/loneliness-triggers-cellular-changes-can-cause-illness-study-shows 5 comments science
- Lab experiment mimics early-stage planetary formation process https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2015/08/03/lab-experiment-mimics-early-stage-planetary-formation-process 3 comments science
- High pollution cuts most Indian lives short by three years http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2015/02/26/high-pollution-cuts-most-indian-lives-short-three-years?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+uchicago+%28the+university+of+chicago+news+office%29 29 comments science
- Highly effective new anti-cancer drug shows few side effects—in mice http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2014/10/22/highly-effective-new-anti-cancer-drug-shows-few-side-effects-mice 5 comments worldnews
- Highly effective new anti-cancer drug shows few side effects—in mice: As injections or pills, drug inhibits an enzyme active in many cancer types http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2014/10/22/highly-effective-new-anti-cancer-drug-shows-few-side-effects-mice 3 comments science
- Molecular engineers record an electron’s quantum behavior: Researchers has developed a technique to record the quantum mechanical behavior of an individual electron contained within a nanoscale defect in diamond http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2014/08/14/molecular-engineers-record-electron-s-quantum-behavior?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+uchicago+(the+university+of+chicago+news+office) 9 comments science
- Molecular engineers record an electron’s quantum behavior http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2014/08/14/molecular-engineers-record-electron-s-quantum-behavior 5 comments science
- Gesturing with hands is a powerful tool for children’s math learning: Children who use their hands to gesture during a math lesson gain a deep understanding of the problems they are taught, according to new research http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2014/03/10/gesturing-hands-powerful-tool-children-s-math-learning 270 comments science
- Physicists have reproduced a pattern resembling the cosmic microwave background radiation in a laboratory simulation of the Big Bang, using ultracold cesium atoms in a vacuum chamber http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2013/08/28/ultracold-big-bang-experiment-successfully-simulates-evolution-early-universe 18 comments science
- "Mathematics anxiety can prompt a response in the brain similar to when a person experiences physical pain, according to new research at the University of Chicago." http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2012/10/31/when-people-worry-about-math-brain-feels-pain 7 comments math
- When people worry about math, the brain feels the pain. Mathematics anxiety can prompt a response in the brain similar to when a person experiences physical pain, according to new research at the University of Chicago. http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2012/10/31/when-people-worry-about-math-brain-feels-pain 19 comments science
- New DNA sequencing method "TAB-Seq" can distinguish recently discovered "sixth nucleotide" (a cytosine variant) http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2012/05/17/new-technique-reveals-unseen-information-dna-code 14 comments science
- New data still have scientists in dark over dark matter https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2011/06/06/new-data-still-have-scientists-dark-over-dark-matter 4 comments science
- "No Shit, Sherlock" Study of the day, courtesy of the University of Chicago http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1477 7 comments science