Skillset, experience, work ethic — and appearance? According to a new Penn State study, reactions to a new work team member may differ depending on the newcomer’s attractiveness and gender. The paper, co-authored by Stephen Humphrey, Alvin H. Clemens Professor of Management in the Penn State Smeal College of Business, investigates how team members engage […]

New mutations occur at increasing rates in the mitochondrial genomes of developing egg cells in aging rhesus monkeys, but the increases appear to plateau at a certain age and are not as large as those seen in non-reproductive cells, like muscle and liver. A new study using extremely accurate DNA sequencing methodology suggests that there […]

Pennsylvania farmers markets generate an estimated $100 million in sales each year, according to a new Penn State Extension analysis that provides a snapshot of farmers markets’ contribution to the local food economy in the commonwealth. Using 2021 data collected from 15% of the farmers markets in Pennsylvania, the researchers found that these markets generated gross sales […]

The exclusion of pregnant patients in initial COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials left many patients and doctors wondering how the vaccine might affect pregnant patients and their unborn babies. But a new Northwestern Medicine study finds the vaccine is not associated with birth defects that are detectable on ultrasound. “This is yet another important piece of […]

In response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, more than a dozen scientific publishers have halted transactions or promotion of their products and services to research organisations in Russia and Belarus. ‘We have taken the unprecedented step of suspending sales and marketing of products and services to research organisations in Russia and Belarus,’ the publishers […]

Medicare patients whose implantable heart devices became infected were less likely to die from the complication if they had the hardware removed compared to patients who only received antibiotics, according to the largest study on the topic, led by the Duke Clinical Research Institute. The study showed that just 18% of patients with device infections underwent […]

A new study reveals that while few cities in the U.S. have high-quality bus rapid transit systems, those that do see benefits to nearby property values. Researchers investigated the impact of bus rapid transit (or BRT) systems on property values near 11 BRT systems in 10 U.S. cities, noting previous research found that traditional bus […]

A Spanish–Swedish collaboration and a Japanese team were declared joint winners of the world’s second nanocar race. The 24-hour event saw eight single-molecule racers compete along a 4–6 nm wide track at the Center for Materials Elaboration and Structural Studies laboratory in Toulouse, France. This was the second time nanocar builders have competed against each […]

In 1995, French fashion magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby suffered a seizure while driving a car, which left him with a condition known as locked-in syndrome, a neurological disease in which the patient is completely paralyzed and can only move muscles that control the eyes. Bauby, who had signed a book contract shortly before his accident, […]

The lethargy that many Alzheimer’s patients experience is caused not by a lack of sleep, but rather by the degeneration of a type of neuron that keeps us awake, according to a study that also confirms the tau protein is behind that neurodegeneration. The study’s findings contradict the common notion that Alzheimer’s patients sleep during […]