Brain research: Study shows what your favorite film genres reveal about your brain

Crime films, action films, comedies, or documentaries? A person's favorite film genre reveals a lot about how their brain works. Fans of action films and comedies reacted very strongly to negative emotional stimuli, while participants who favored documentaries or crime films and thrillers had a significantly weaker reaction.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240827105039.htm

Are crops worldwide sufficiently pollinated?

Scientists have analyzed crop yields of more than 1,500 fields on six continents, and found that production worldwide of important, nutritionally dense foods such as fruits, vegetables, nuts and legumes is being limited by a lack of pollinators.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240826193131.htm

Physicists ease path to entanglement for quantum sensing

A quantum mechanical trick called 'spin squeezing' is widely recognized to hold promise for supercharging the capabilities of the world's most precise quantum sensors, but it's been notoriously difficult to achieve. In new research, physicists describe how they've put spin squeezing within better reach.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240826182940.htm

Physicists ease path to entanglement for quantum sensing

A quantum mechanical trick called 'spin squeezing' is widely recognized to hold promise for supercharging the capabilities of the world's most precise quantum sensors, but it's been notoriously difficult to achieve. In new research, physicists describe how they've put spin squeezing within better reach.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240826182940.htm

First low frequency search for alien technology in distant galaxies

Researchers have announced a groundbreaking study using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) in Western Australia. The research is the first to search for signs of alien technology in galaxies beyond our own, focusing on low radio frequencies (100 MHz). This new approach looks at distant galaxies, making it one of the most detailed searches for super civilizations -- those more advanced than ours.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240826131354.htm

First low frequency search for alien technology in distant galaxies

Researchers have announced a groundbreaking study using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) in Western Australia. The research is the first to search for signs of alien technology in galaxies beyond our own, focusing on low radio frequencies (100 MHz). This new approach looks at distant galaxies, making it one of the most detailed searches for super civilizations -- those more advanced than ours.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240826131354.htm

Sustaining oyster farming with sturdier rafts

Seeking affordable, sturdy rafts for oyster farming, researchers propose polyethylene rafts. Their findings show a polyethylene raft as being about five times more durable than a conventional bamboo raft.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240826131006.htm

A switch for immune memory and anti-tumor immunity

A study has identified a metabolic switch in the immune system's T cells that is essential to the generation of memory T cells -- which confer lasting immunity to previously encountered pathogens -- and a T cell subtype found in tumors that drives anti-tumor responses during immunotherapy.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240823185109.htm

Researcher finds sound progress in babies' speech development

The sounds babies make in their first year of life may be less random and more self-driven than previously believed, according to new research.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240823153453.htm

A leaky sink: Carbon emissions from forest soil will likely grow with rising temperatures

The soils of northern forests are key reservoirs that help keep the carbon dioxide that trees inhale and use for photosynthesis from making it back into the atmosphere.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240823153446.htm

Good sleep habits important for overweight adults

New research reveals harmful consequences for people who are overweight and ignore their body's signals to sleep at night, with specific differences between men and women.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240823144721.htm

Strength training activates cellular waste disposal

The elimination of damaged cell components is essential for the maintenance of the body's tissues and organs. An international research team has made significant findings on mechanisms for the clearing of cellular wastes, showing that strength training activates such mechanisms. The findings could form the basis for new therapies for heart failure and nerve diseases, and even afford benefits for manned space missions.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240823141612.htm

Multiple sclerosis appears to protect against Alzheimer's disease

A collaborative investigation among experts in Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis (MS) finds evidence that MS patients are less likely to have amyloid plaques, a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, than adults without MS.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240823141607.htm

Innovative field experiments shed light on biological clocks in nature

A new study has used a series of innovative field experiments to show how plants combine circadian clock signals with environmental cues under naturally fluctuating conditions.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240823120128.htm

Mouse study: Proteins do the damage in fetal abdominal inflammation

Inflammation of the abdominal cavity in human fetuses resulting from a perforation of their intestine is likely to be caused by proteins contained in the fetal stool. This is the result of a study that establishes a new mouse model allowing research and drug development for a condition that is otherwise difficult to approach.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240822222615.htm

Macrophage mix helps determine rate and fate of fatty liver disease

The white blood cells' typical role is to promote inflammation and stimulate the immune response, but researchers say some actually appear to temper inflammatory conditions and improve healing.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240822181046.htm

Mosquitoes sense infrared from body heat to help track humans down

While a mosquito bite is often no more than a temporary bother, in many parts of the world it can be scary. One mosquito species, Aedes aegypti, spreads the viruses that cause over 100,000,000 cases of dengue, yellow fever, Zika and other diseases every year. Another, Anopheles gambiae, spreads the parasite that causes malaria. The World Health Organization estimates that malaria alone causes more than 400,000 deaths every year. Indeed, their capacity to transmit disease has earned mosquitoes the title of deadliest animal.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240822181042.htm

New gels could protect buildings during wildfires

Researchers have developed a sprayable gel that creates a shield to protect buildings from wildfire damage. It lasts longer and is more effective than existing commercial options.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240822181039.htm

Meteor showers shed light on where comets formed in the early solar system

Researchers studying meteor showers have found that not all comets crumble the same way when they approach the Sun. In a new study, they ascribe the differences to the conditions in the protoplanetary disk where comets formed 4.5 billion years ago.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240822130027.htm

The changes to cell DNA that could revolutionize disease prevention

Researchers have discovered a mechanism in DNA that regulates how disease-causing mutations are inherited. The team identified two enzymes that regulate a chemical modification, 6mA, in mitochondrial DNA. Without the modification, DNA mutations accumulate. These mutations contribute to diseases like dementia, cancer, and diabetes. The study shows that the 6mA modification controls these mutations, suggesting that enhancing its levels could slow disease progression.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240821221840.htm