OXFORD, Ohio, July 15 -- Miami University posted the following news: * * * 'Figuring things out': Miamians excel with recent research publication * Zachary Abrahms knew he had big shoes to fill. Mohammad Majdi, a postdoctoral scholar, had just left the lab of Andrew Jones in April 2024, creating a void in a psilocybin research project. Enter Abrahms, then a Miami University senior, Astronaut Scholar, and Biology major with a Premedical and Pre-Health Studies co-major. The challenge, Abrahms said, was "daunting." "It was really inten more PR

RALEIGH, North Carolina, July 16 (TNSjou) -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release: * * * Scientists Are Getting Better at Predicting Which DNA Sequences Bind to Each Other. AI is Helping. Researchers have demonstrated a novel AI model that can predict which DNA molecules bind with which other DNA molecules. Providing a more thorough understanding of these hypercomplex binding relationships has utility in applications ranging from biomedical diagnostic tools to DNA computing. "We often think about binding as a ve more PR

LONDON, England, July 15 -- The Royal Holloway-University of London issued the following news: * * * Salty water similar to Earth's oceans found in meteorite that struck New Jersey home * Scientists discover evidence of salty water similar to the Earth's oceans and organic matter essential for the building blocks of life in a meteorite that crashed through a house in New Jersey, USA. The rare meteorite contains evidence of highly concentrated briny fluids which can potentially create molecules, similar to those crucial to life on Earth.  more PR

MISSOULA, Montana, July 15 -- The University of Montana posted the following news release: * * * UM Scientists: World's Highest-Dwelling Mammal Could Boost Cancer Treatments * MISSOULA - A team of University of Montana scientists shares a curiosity about how animals survive at extreme altitudes, leading them to follow a remarkable species to the edge of the "death zone" in the Chilean Andes. Having analyzed their samples, they believe studying a mouse that thrives in a low-oxygen environment may pave the way for improved drug and chemothe more PR

KYOTO, Japan, July 16 (TNSjou) -- Ritsumeikan University issued the following news: * * * Understanding Textile Structures by Studying Defect Propagation Researchers classify periodic textile structures by mathematically tracking how defects propagate through interconnected yarn networks - Textile properties often depend as much on yarn entanglement as on the material itself, with these underlying patterns influencing mechanical behavior. Researchers have developed a mathematical framework that classifies periodic textile structures and  more PR

LONDON, England, July 15 (TNSjou) -- The University College London posted the following news: * * * Mystery of why some toads survive deadly fungus revealed The mystery of why some populations of amphibians recover following outbreaks of a deadly fungus has been solved in a new study led by UCL, ZSL and Imperial College London. The chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), is a major cause of devastating declines in frogs and toads around the world. Mass deaths occur often after amphibians transition out of the tadpole or larval  more PR

COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 15 -- Ohio State University posted the following news: * * * When eyeing a predator, horses keep a poker face as their hearts race * Horses know a predator when they see one - even if it's only on a video screen they're watching in a stall, with no sounds, smells or previous experience providing context to what they're viewing, a new study suggests. And though sensors indicated the horses' heart rates increased when they were looking at wolves on the screen, they otherwise kept a poker face. They didn't bob their head more PR