Year: 2024

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Groundwater is rapidly declining across the globe, often at accelerating rates. Writing in the journal Nature, ...

A large percentage of European plastic sent to Vietnam ends up in nature

Despite strict EU regulations on plastic recycling, there is little oversight on plastic waste shipped from the EU to Vietnam. ...

A year of breakthroughs from Cincinnati Children’s

Cincinnati Children’s continues to be a cradle for great discoveries.Credit: Cincinnati Children's Cincinnati Children’s continues to be a cradle for ...

Exposure to flame retardants linked to premature birth, higher birth weight

(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — In the largest study of its kind, researchers at UC Davis Health found that exposure to organophosphate ...

Facial recognition app for dogs developed to help in fight against rabies

A new mobile phone-based facial recognition application for dogs has the potential to significantly improve rabies vaccination efforts in endemic ...

New study unveils how plants control the production of reactive oxygen species

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are highly reactive molecules containing oxygen. These compounds, which are normal byproducts of biological processes in ...

The fountain of youth is … a T cell?

The fountain of youth has eluded explorers for ages. It turns out the magic anti-aging elixir might have been inside ...

Ultrafast excitations in correlated systems

An international team of researchers from the European XFEL together with colleagues from the Max Born Institute in Berlin, Universities ...

TRAILS AI Institute announces first round of Seed Funding

The Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRAILS) has unveiled an inaugural round of seed grants designed to ...

Walking fitness can predict fracture risk in older adults

The ability to walk one kilometre comfortably can help predict fracture risk, according to researchers at the Garvan Institute of ...

Learning for life: The higher the level of education, the lower the risk of dying

Education saves lives regardless of age, sex, location, and social and demographic backgrounds. That’s according to the latest and largest ...

Non-COVID-19 deaths among people with diabetes jumped during pandemic

Non-COVID-19-related deaths among people with diabetes increased during the pandemic, as did the diabetes complication of sight loss, according to ...

Live animal transport regulations not ‘fit for purpose’, major international study finds

A ‘fitness check’ of regulations in five countries meant to protect animals during transportation, has deemed that they all fall ...

Mind the (green) gap

Color mixing is the process of combining two or more colors: red and green make yellow, blue and red make ...

Injectable water filtration system could improve access to clean drinking water around the world

More than 2 billion people, approximately a quarter of the world’s population, lack access to clean drinking water. A new, portable ...

RCSI-Serosep partnership aims to predict progression of ulcerative colitis

RCSI-Serosep partnership aims to predict progression of ulcerative colitisCredit: MAXWELLS RCSI-Serosep partnership aims to predict progression of ulcerative colitis Tuesday, ...

Marine heat waves trigger shift in hatch dates and early growth of Pacific cod

Marine heat waves appear to trigger earlier reproduction, high mortality in early life stages and fewer surviving juvenile Pacific cod ...

Few patients successfully treat their type 2 diabetes through weight loss

A new study finds that very few patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes are able to achieve normal blood glucose ...

FAPESP School of Advanced Science on Biodiversity is now open for registration

Applications are now open for the São Paulo School of Advanced Science "Co-designing Biodiversity Assessments". The school will take place ...

When conditions cool down, a bacterial prey species becomes the predator