Women from low socio-economic backgrounds consider themselves to be less talented than all other groups – even if they show the same performance levels. This is shown by a new study led by Christina Bauer at the University of Vienna. This misconception contributes to the pronounced disadvantage in domains suchContinuar Leyendo
Study models the benefits of strategies to cope with and alleviate extreme heat in specific US cities through the end of the century Tempe, Dec 31, 2023.- Extreme heat waves, once considered rare, are now frequent and severe in cities due to climate change. Phoenix faced such a brutal heatContinuar Leyendo
New York, Dec 29, 2023.- Billions of years ago, as primitive lifeforms were becoming more complex, a selfish genetic component became a sort of genome colonizer. Using a copy-and-paste mechanism, this pernicious bit of code replicated and inserted itself again and again into a variety of genomes. Over time, allContinuar Leyendo
Bern, Dec 21, 2023.- The World Health Organization (WHO) has appointed the Biosafety Center of the Institute for Infectious Diseases at the University of Bern as a Collaborating Center. The Biosafety Center will support the WHO with advice, training and the development of guidelines and instructions. It is the onlyContinuar Leyendo
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope recently trained its sights on unusual and enigmatic Uranus, an ice giant that spins on its side. Webb captured this dynamic world with rings, moons, storms, and other atmospheric features — including a seasonal polar cap. The image expands upon a two-colour version releasedContinuar Leyendo
New York, Dec 17, 2023.- The current class of anti-obesity drugs is proving remarkably effective at removing excess pounds. However, a phase 3 randomized clinical trial led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian found that people who stopped taking the medication regained much of that weight within aContinuar Leyendo
A Cambridge-led study has shown why many women experience nausea and vomiting during pregnancy – and why some women, including the then Duchess of Cambridge, become so sick they need to be admitted to hospital. The culprit is a hormone produced by the fetus – a protein known as GDF15.Continuar Leyendo
Milani needs you! This is your chance to design a mission patch for the Milani CubeSat which will fly with ESA’s Hera planetary defence spacecraft to the Didymos binary asteroid system. París, December 13, 2023.- ESA is offering graphic designers and artists a unique opportunity to feature their work on theContinuar Leyendo
Associative learning was always thought to be regulated by the cortex of the cerebellum, often referred to as the “little brain”. However, new research from a collaboration between the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Erasmus MC, and Champalimaud Center for the Unknown reveals that actually the nuclei of the cerebellum makeContinuar Leyendo
Researchers have discovered that misreading of therapeutic mRNAs by the cell’s decoding machinery can cause an unintended immune response in the body. They have identified the sequence within the mRNA that causes this to occur and found a way to prevent ‘off-target’ immune responses to enable the safer design ofContinuar Leyendo
