Nearly half of all adults in the United States are living with hypertension, or blood pressure above 130/80 mmHg. Despite its prevalence, managing high blood pressure remains a major challenge in healthcare settings.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. 鈥 Sandia National Laboratories achieved a record-breaking economic impact of $5.2 billion for 2024, surpassing the previous year鈥檚 figure by more than $423 million. This total includes the salaries of the 16,900 people employed by Sandia in 2024, including 1,900 student interns, as well as the $1.08 billion paid to small business suppliers and the $133 million in gross receipts taxes paid to the state of New Mexico.
A first-of-its-kind study found subtle, but distinct vowel pronunciations in Pacific Islanders attending more diverse schools in Utah compared to students in a predominately white high school, confirming the theory that groups to differentiate along ethnic lines where more groups share the same social space.
This panoramic view of the Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years away, is the largest photomosaic ever assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations. It took more than 10 years to collect data to make this vast and colorful portrait of the galaxy, built from more than 600 overlapping snapshots. This stunning mosaic captures the pinpoint glow of 200 million stars spread across 2.5 billion pixels.
Leo P, a small galaxy and a distant neighbor of the Milky Way, is lighting the way for astronomers to better understand star formation and how a galaxy grows.
In a study published in the Astrophysical Journal, a team of researchers led by Kristen McQuinn, a scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute and an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Rutgers University-New Brunswick School of Arts and Sciences, has reported finding that Leo P 鈥渞eignited,鈥 reactivating during a significant period on the timeline of the universe, producing stars when many other small galaxies didn鈥檛.
If corn was ever jealous of soybean鈥檚 relationship with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, advancements in gene editing could one day even the playing field. A recent study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign shows that gene-edited bacteria can supply the equivalent of 35 pounds of nitrogen from the air during early corn growth, which may reduce the crop鈥檚 reliance on nitrogen fertilizer.
Two new papers document progress in neuroprosthetic technology that lets people feel the shape and movement of objects moving over the "skin" of a bionic hand.
Pioneering researchers of self-generated spin torques have discovered a new one, anomalous Hall torque, that completes a triad of torques likely present in all conductive spintronic materials. Dubbed the Universal Hall Torques, the triad have unique spin behavior favorable to cutting-edge technologies, like human brain-inspired computing that processes massive amounts of data with much greater efficiency.
Expressing your authentic self could help boost workplace performance, so long as your values align with those of your company and your coworkers, according to a new research paper co-authored by faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York.
As creosote spread across the American Southwest 20,000 years ago, natural selection favored changes that led to duplicating genes that produce an abundance of detox enzymes. Gene duplication is likely the first step that enables animals to rapidly adapt to new environmental pressure, a notion challenging conventional wisdom.