Subaru Telescope captures 1800 exploding stars

The Subaru Telescope has captured images of more than 1800 exploding stars in the Universe, some located 8 billion light years from Earth.

from All Top News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2Wcd7Ea

Research confirms gut-brain connection in autism

Up to 90 percent of people with autism suffer from gut problems, but nobody has known why. New research reveals the same gene mutations -- found both in the brain and the gut -- could be the cause.

from All Top News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2QDdUYP

Circadian clocks: Body parts respond to day and night independently from brain, studies show

Researchers have suspected that the body's various circadian clocks can operate independently from the central clock in the hypothalamus of the brain. Now, they have found a way to test that theory.

from All Top News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2Z0uTXR

New evidence links ultra-processed foods with a range of health risks

Two large European studies find positive associations between consumption of highly processed ('ultra-processed') foods and risk of cardiovascular disease and death.

from All Top News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2Xj9mcK

Declining fertility rates may explain Neanderthal extinction

A new hypothesis for Neanderthal extinction supported by population modeling has been put forward.

from All Top News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2MmuGNi

Asia's glaciers provide buffer against drought

A new study assesses the contribution that Asia's high mountain glaciers make to relieving water stress in the region. The study has important economic and social implications for a region that is vulnerable to drought. Climate change is causing most of the region's glaciers to shrink.

from All Top News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2YVonSh

New way to protect against high-dose radiation damage discovered

Intensive radiotherapy can be toxic in 60 percent of patients with tumors located in the gastrointestinal cavity. Increases in levels of the protein URI protect mice against high-dose ionizing radiation-induced gastrointestinal syndrome and enhance mouse intestinal regeneration and survival in 100 percent of the cases. This finding could be useful to mitigate side effects of other sources of intensive radiation, such as nuclear accidents, nuclear warfare or the exposure to cosmic radiation during space explorations.

from All Top News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/30VHeyr

Transgenic fungus rapidly killed malaria mosquitoes in West African study

Researchers describe the first trial outside the laboratory of a transgenic approach to combating malaria. The study shows that a naturally occurring fungus engineered to deliver a toxin to mosquitoes safely reduced mosquito populations by more than 99% in a screen-enclosed, simulated village setting in Burkina Faso, West Africa.

from All Top News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2wqffZR

Pain free, thanks to evolution

African mole-rats are insensitive to many different kinds of pain. This characteristic has even allowed mole-rats to populate new habitats, researchers report. Thanks to a genetic change, the highveld mole-rat is able to live alongside venomous ants with painful stings that other mole-rats avoid.

from All Top News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2MgECrL

Combination of three gene mutations results in deadly human heart disease

Scientists believe that more common forms of disease may be the result of a combination of more subtle genetic mutations that act together. Now researchers have used technological advances to prove that three subtle genetic variants inherited within a family worked together to cause heart disease in multiple siblings at a very young age.

from All Top News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2QwRecP

Ancient DNA tells the story of the first herders and farmers in east Africa

A collaborative study led by archaeologists, geneticists and museum curators is providing answers to previously unsolved questions about life in sub-Saharan Africa thousands of years ago.

from All Top News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2JMGy9f

NIST physicists 'teleport' logic operation between separated ions

Physicists have teleported a computer circuit instruction known as a quantum logic operation between two separated ions (electrically charged atoms), showcasing how quantum computer programs could carry out tasks in future large-scale quantum networks.

from All Top News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2JP8AB8

Early humans used northern migration routes to reach eastern Asia

Northern and Central Asia have been neglected in studies of early human migration, with deserts and mountains being considered uncompromising barriers. However, a new study argues that humans may have moved through these extreme settings in the past under wetter conditions. By analyzing past climate, northern Asia emerges as a potential route of human dispersal, as well as a zone of potential interaction with other hominins such as Neanderthals and Denisovans.

from All Top News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2I8IINn