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Natural Resource Today Weekly - Issue #1
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Penn State University:
Researchers found that people who lost a spouse to COVID-19 were more likely to report symptoms of depression and loneliness than comparable people whose spouses died just before the pandemic began.
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University of Cambridge:
Researchers have designed a machine learning method that can predict the structure of new materials with five times the efficiency of the current standard.
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The Australian National University:
Milk produced by breastfeeding mothers is an important indicator of a nation's food security, according to an international study. Researchers are calling for the inclusion of human milk production in food supply statistics.
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University of Nottingham:
Researchers have discovered a key gene in barley and wheat that controls the angle of root growth. Steeper root angle helps bury carbon deeper in soil as well as improving resilience in crops to drought stress.
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University of Tsukuba:
Researchers have identified the brain pathway that is responsible for the "priming" of aggression that occurs when male animals spend time together.
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Curtin University:
A new study has found that water was transported much deeper in the early earth than previously thought, shedding new light on how the continents were originally formed.
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Max Planck Institute:
Researchers have discovered that the brains of Neanderthals developed differently from those of modern humans.
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Stanford University:
Researchers reveal previously unknown structure of electric fields inside an enzyme’s active site, yielding clues to the source of enzymes’ power.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology:
Engineers have designed an adhesive patch that produces ultrasound images of the body. The stamp-sized device sticks to skin and can provide continuous ultrasound imaging of internal organs for 48 hours.
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University of Leeds:
Researchers have mapped the full scale of a vast region of peatland in the heart of the Congo Basin, revealing it to be 15% bigger than previously thought
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