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A new study offers data-driven strategies for shuttering America’s remaining coal plants.

Even as coal power continues its steady decline in the United States, more than a hundred plants still have no retirement plans—a gap large enough to derail national climate goals.

The new study offers a way forward, showing how targeted, data-driven approaches could help a...

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New research suggests cellphone data could help clinicians identify and treat mental health disorders.

Colin E. Vize, assistant professor in the psychology department at the University of Pittsburgh, is co-PI on this research, which broadens the scope of how clinicians might one day use this data to treat their patients.

“This is an important step in the right d...

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New research reveals how alcohol exposure can significantly impair key brain cells and circuits in offspring.

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD), a leading cause of neurodevelopmental disorders, may affect as many as 1 in 20 school-aged children in the United States. Despite its prevalence, the exact brain circuit responsible for FASD’s hallmark symptom—cognitive ...

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In the quest for more targeted lung cancer treatments, a researcher thinks the solution may lie in tiny bubble-shaped packages that cells use to talk to each other.

These microscopic messengers, called extracellular vesicles (EVs), are about 3,000 times thinner than a human hair and are released in the billions by nearly every cell in the body, including cancer cells.

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New field observations suggest that wild chimpanzees—our closest primate relatives—may also show signs of cognitive decline with age.

In a study published in eLife, an international collaboration of researchers—including Dora Biro, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester—re...

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