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Researchers and land managers have long known that reducing the amount of forest fuel helps reduce wildfire severity. But not all fuel is created equal, and the vertical location of that fuel may matter more than the sheer amount, especially when weather conditions are hot, dry and windy. Recent research from NAU, using data collected from NASA spaceborne lidar, shows that large-scale maps of ladder fuels can help predict areas at greatest risk from wildfires and suggests that a focus on reducing ladder fuels may be the most direct means to reduce wildfire severity.

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Research team finds that drugs being sold as fentanyl contain high amounts of the industrial chemical bis(2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidyl) sebacate, or BTMPS. This new substance of concern emerged in the illicit drug supply nearly simultaneously in multiple U.S. locations from coast-to-coast.

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Mitochondria may hold the key to curing diabetes

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Professor David Ray鈥檚 laboratory in the Department of Biological Sciences helped identify genetic components in bats that provide insight into their immune systems.

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UCLA Health is set to begin a multi-site pilot study to explore whether a ketogenic diet, when combined with mood stabilizing medications, helps stabilize mood symptoms in teenagers and young adults who have bipolar disorder.

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Upstate now offers talking prescription bottles for visually-impaired or non-English speaking patients

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Credit: Adobe Stock A type of aggressive, treatment-resistant brain tumor has a distinct population of immune cells that support its growth, according to new research led by investigators at the聽Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center聽Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy聽and the聽Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

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Researchers from Penn State and China鈥檚 Hebei University of Technology addressed this issue by uncovering a new property of a sensor material, enabling the team to develop a new type of flexible sensor that can accurately measure both temperature and physical strain simultaneously but separately to pinpoint various signals more precisely.

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Mingyu Yu, doctoral candidate in materials science and engineering at Penn State, recently received the Graduate Student Research Award from the professional society AVS: Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces and Processing for innovative research in two-dimensional materials.

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Not all patients need a battery of pre-surgery tests -- especially if the results won鈥檛 change how their surgical team treats them or how well they do afterward. Now, a new study shows how hospitals can focus the use of such tests on the patients who truly need them, while safely reducing unnecessary testing in others.

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A team of scientists has developed an innovative method to transform industrial waste sulfur into dynamic, sulfur-rich polymers, offering a sustainable and efficient solution for utilizing elemental sulfur. The breakthrough process produces materials with self-healing, reprocessable, and degradable properties, providing a versatile platform for smart material applications.

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An unhealthy diet, lack of exercise, and smoking 鈥� considered to be a relatively recent societal curse 鈥� are all risk factors to heart disease. But if that is the case, did heart disease exist thousands of years ago?

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A new study has unveiled a new strategy to enhance lithium-organic batteries by optimizing the active-site density, accessibility, and reactivity in polyimide cathode materials. This innovative approach offers the potential for batteries with higher capacity, faster charge rates, and improved cycling stability鈥攑ushing the boundaries of sustainable energy storage technology.

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Researchers have achieved a monumental leap in the efficiency and stability of inkjet-printed quantum-dot light-emitting diodes (QLEDs) by employing a pressure-assisted thermal annealing (PTA) technique, which enables the acquisition of highly ordered quantum-dot (QD) thin films via inkjet printing.

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Living in a disadvantaged community may decrease the length of time a person can survive with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, by over 30%, a study suggests. Similar studies have shown that living in resource-deprived areas is associated with a higher burden of Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease and related dementias.

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A new study shows that tuberculosis patients cash-incentivised and counselled have a 52% lower relative risk of having an unsuccessful treatment outcome.

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Adults tend to overestimate the degree to which home firearm access protects people during home invasions while underestimating the impact on suicide risk, according to Rutgers Health study

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A new study from the University of California San Diego has developed an innovative computational tool that can help institutions to better design electric vehicle (EV) charging networks by focusing on how real drivers use their cars and charge them.

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research team has developed a new tool designed to measure the root-cause drivers of healthcare worker well-being. Going beyond traditional assessments of burnout and professional fulfillment, the tool evaluates the systemic factors that influence well-being across the healthcare workforce.

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A study published in Nature Medicine suggests physicians who have access to large language models (LLM), also known as chatbots, demonstrate improved performance on several patient care tasks compared to physicians without access to LLM.