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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Understanding product life cycles plays an important role in the innovation arms race, helping to define firm growth and market competition. Products experience a substantial decline in sales after an initial period of growth, a trend that is consistent across various industries and product types. "By examining the…

A study from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus reveals that the use of antidepressants during pregnancy, specifically fluoxetine, can affect fetal brain development, particularly in the prefrontal cortex, and increase the risk of mental health disorders in children. Credit: SciTechDaily.comFirst study to provide evidence of the direct impact of serotonin on the development of prefrontal cortex.A new study published today (February 16) in Nature Communications provides direct evidence that antidepressant…

A groundbreaking study reveals how neutrophils form their unique nuclear structures, solving a mystery from the 1880s. This discovery could revolutionize immune therapy by enabling the engineering of immune cells with new nuclear shapes to enhance their disease-fighting capabilities.Scientists may be able to direct immune cells toward diseased areas. Nearly 150 years ago, scientists discovered that specialized blood cells serve a vital role in immune system protection against infection and illness.Certain groups of these…

For better or worse, one of the movers and shakers behind Destiny 2, Game Director Joe Blackburn, is departing Bungie in February. His departure comes just before The Final Shape expansion launch on June 4, 2024. Blackburn announced on Twitter that he’s passing the reigns onto a new leader next month. And while this change might seem abrupt to some, Blackburn notes that development on The Final Shape expansion is nearly done and is now entering a playtest and bug fix phase to prep for release. Previously working as a…

What drew you to this subject and what were the stark discoveries you made during your research? Floods in and around Chennai in December 2023. (ANI/PIB) The idea for the book came after discussions with Manasi Subramanian from Penguin, the editor of our 2019 book Cities and Canopies: Trees in Indian Cities. She asked if we would be interested in writing a book on urban rivers – we liked the idea, but expanded the theme to cover water as a topic, including the many aspects, roles and shades that water takes in…

Julia Carr, who graduated with her doctorate in geosciences from Penn State in 2022, flying a drone in the Luye reach in the southern eastern central mountains of Taiwan. Scientists used drones to collect hundreds of thousands of measurements of boulders along roughly 18 miles of rivers and found new clues about how water helps shape the mountains. Credit: Julia Carr Drones flying along miles of rivers in the steep, mountainous…

Multibeam bathymetry shows the morphology of a section of the Southeast Indian Ridge south of Australia. New research finds that highly variable seafloor morphology is controlled by changes in magma supply along the axes of mid-ocean ridges. Credit: Ross Parnell-Turner At nearly 65,000 kilometers long, the mid-ocean ridge system is the longest mountain range in the world. Running beneath the ocean's surface, mid-ocean ridges…

China's Zhurong rover was equipped with a ground-penetrating radar system, allowing it to peer beneath Mars's surface.Researchers have announced new results from the scans of Zhurong's landing site in Utopia Planitia, saying they identified irregular polygonal wedges located at a depth of about 35 meters all along the robot's journey.The objects measure from centimeters to tens of meters across. The scientists believe the buried polygons resulted from freeze-thaw cycles on Mars billions of years ago, but they could also…

Innovative research utilizing machine learning to analyze atomic pieces of geometry has marked a major advancement in mathematics, potentially revolutionizing the field by speeding up the identification and understanding of complex geometric shapes and patterns.New research has leveraged machine learning techniques to identify the properties of atomic pieces of geometry. This groundbreaking effort holds the potential to propel the advancement of novel findings in the field of mathematics.Mathematicians from the University…

Two research technicians measure carbon dioxide and methane fluxes from transplanted soil monoliths along a tidal creek at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland. Credit: Ben Bond-Lamberty, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Coastal forests are increasingly exposed to the effects of climate change and sea level rise. However, scientists have an incomplete understanding of what this means for…