Study: Preschoolers with higher cardiorespiratory fitness do better on cognitive tests
Study in 4-6 year olds finds fitness-cognition linkCredit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers report that 4-6-year-old ...
NOAA funds VIMS to study impact of ocean acidification on oysters
Team will assess vulnerability of aquaculture and restoration efforts in Chesapeake BayCredit: © Aileen Devlin/Virginia Sea Grant. The excess carbon ...
Promoting and protecting human milk and breastfeeding during COVID-19
Credit: University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA (February 18, 2021) - With stressors mounting daily on the health care system due to ...
South American lizard’s blood pressure mechanism is more efficient at cool temperatures
The black and white tegu lizard, which depends on external environmental factors to regulate body temperature, can survive swings between ...
Investigating the wave properties of matter with vibrating molecules
Physics: Publication in Nature PhysicsCredit: HHU / Soroosh Alighanbari Almost 100 years ago, a revolutionary discovery was made in the ...
Paper: STEM skills gap modest among IT help desk workers
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Workers with science, technology, engineering and math backgrounds are typically in ...
New NIST framework strives for cleaner, more secure power grid
Credit: B. Hayes/NIST Whether it's a new set of solar panels glistening on a neighbor's roof or a freshly installed ...
How lithium-rich cathode materials for high energy EV batteries store charge at hig
Credit: WMG, University of Warwick By 2030 only EV's will be in production, meaning manufacturers are racing to create a ...
Shale gas development in PA increases exposure of some to air pollutants
Current setback policy not most effective approach to protect people from exposureCredit: Penn State Air pollution levels may have exceeded ...
COVID, one year later: What do we know now? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Feb. 18, 2020 -- At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we switched up ...
Artificial intelligence may help achieve UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
Credit: Andalusian Research Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence (DaSCI) University of Granada Scientists from the Andalusian Research Institute ...
GW receives funding to develop AI systems to help people with health problems drive safely
New partnership hopes to detect and predict health abnormalities in driversCredit: Samer Hamdar/GW WASHINGTON (Feb. 18, 2021) -- Diagnosed with ...
Turf wars: Ocean acidification and feedback loops lock in turf algal systems
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba find that in the presence of ocean acidification, feedback loops keep degraded turf algal ...
Giant predatory worms roamed the seafloor until 5.3 million years ago
The seafloor was inhabited by giant predatory worms until 5.3 million years agoCredit: university of granada An international study in ...
Edible holograms could someday decorate foods
Credit: Adapted from ACS Nano 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c02438 Holograms are everywhere, from driver's licenses to credit cards to product packaging. ...
I, the obstacle — dogs show body-awareness, a new component of mental self-representation
Dogs understand the relationship between their body and the environment in a problem solving taskCredit: Photo: Rita Lenkei / ELTE ...
Study reveals a new potential mechanism underlying loss of muscle mass during menopause
A new study conducted in collaboration between the universities of MinnA new study reveals that estrogen deficiency alters the microRNA ...
Breeding better seeds: Healthy food for more people
Credit: Beth Luedeker Your morning cereal or oatmeal. The bread on your sandwich. The corn chips for your snack, and ...
LHC/ATLAS: A unique observation of particle pair creation in photon-photon collisions
Credit: Source: IFJ PAN Cracow, 18 February 2021 Creation of matter in an interaction of two photons belongs to a ...
How location dictates biological clocks of species: Study in beetles offers new insights
Scientists explore geographical variation in the biological clock of a new model organism, the Japanese red flour beetleCredit: 2021 Okayama ...