Which students are at most risk of mental health problems during COVID-19 lockdowns?
Credit: JCPP Advances A new study published in JCPP Advances has compared the wellbeing of UK students who remained at ...
Month: July 2021
Crime scene tape set to revolutionize microplastics research
Forensic scientists have developed a new method to help monitor plastic pollution across the world.Credit: Staffordshire University An adhesive tape ...
Tiny organisms shed big light on ocean nutrients
Credit: Photo by Debra Lomas As the world warms, sweeping changes in marine nutrients seem like an expected consequence of ...
How do wind turbines impact Golden Eagles?
Credit: Dr. Whitfield Results from a study published in Ibis show that how close Golden Eagles will fly to wind ...
Fully booked at the bottom of the sea: There seems no room for new bacteria on sand grains
Bacteria on the sand on the ocean floor do not change between the seasons. Presumably, there is simply no room ...
Innovative program entertains and teaches children about fish migration
Credit: Written by Merryn Thomas and illustrated by Ethan Kocak. It's important to communicate about hard-to-see and complex environmental topics ...
New 3D images of shark intestines show they function like Nikola Tesla’s valve
Credit: Samantha Leigh/California State University Dominguez Hills Contrary to what popular media portrays, we actually don't know much about what ...
Microbially produced fibers: Stronger than steel, tougher than Kevlar
Artificially designed, amyloid-silk hybrid protein developed in Zhang lab even outperforms some spider silksCredit: Washington University in St. Louis/Jingyao Li ...
Virginia Tech’s COVID-19 testing demonstrates power, versatility of academic labs
Credit: Clayton Metz/Virginia Tech In the early days of the pandemic, scientists at Virginia Tech created a COVID-19 testing laboratory ...
UTHSC secures $121 million in research grants and contract awards
Credit: UTHSC Memphis, Tenn. (July 20, 2021) - The University of Tennessee Health Science Center's Office of Research announced that ...
COVID-19 shutdowns reveal racial disparities in exposure to air pollution
Disenfranchised, minority neighborhoods still exposed to disproportionately high levels of health harming nitrogen dioxideCredit: GW WASHINGTON (July 20, 2021)--A new ...
Researchers develop novel method for glucagon delivery
Credit: University of Notre Dame For children with Type 1 diabetes, the risk of experiencing a severe hypoglycemic episode is ...
New study investigates formation of dangerous compounds by e-cigarettes
Credit: Yeongkwan Son/DRI. Scientists with the Desert Research Institute (DRI) Organic Analytical Laboratory in Reno, Nev., led by Andrey Khlystov, ...
New technology shows promise in detecting, blocking grid cyberattacks
Credit: Chris Morgan, Idaho National Laboratory Researchers from Idaho National Laboratory and New Mexico-based Visgence Inc. have designed and demonstrated ...