Using optics to trace the flow of microplastics in oceans
Microplastics are tiny plastic particles less than 5 mm in diameter that have emerged as a novel marine environment pollutant....
A fast way to diagnose type 2 diabetes: sniffing urinary acetone
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) accounts for more than 90% of the confirmed cases of diabetes. It has become a common...
How the “marsupial sabertooth” thylacosmilus saw its world
A new study investigates how an extinct, carnivorous marsupial relative with canines so large they extended across the top of...
The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health issues sweeping new report
Chestnut Hill, Mass (3/21/2023) – Philip Landrigan, MD, director of the Program on Global Public Health and the Common Good and...
3000+ billion tons of ice lost from Antarctic Ice Sheet over 25 years
Scientists have calculated that the fastest changing Antarctic region - the Amundsen Sea Embayment - has lost more than 3,000 billion tonnes of ice over...
Richard McIndoe, PhD, will direct Coordinating Unit for new, national research initiative in diabetes, obesity
AUGUSTA, Ga. (March 21 , 2023) – Richard McIndoe, PhD, a bioinformatics expert and director of the Center for Biotechnology...
For clues to healthy brain aging, look to the Bolivian Amazon
Some of the lowest rates of heart and brain disease ever reported by science are found among Indigenous communities inhabiting...
Department of Energy recognizes two decades’ worth of Argonne’s high-quality thermochemical data
The Active Thermochemical Tables join other highly regarded data resources in DOE’s Public Reusable Research Data.Credit: (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)...
Spotted lanternfly spreads by hitching a ride with humans
Spring brings warmer weather, blooming flowers and the unfortunate re-emergence of the spotted lanternfly, a prolific invasive insect reviled for...
UCLA-led study uses base editing to correct mutation that causes rare immune deficiency
A new UCLA-led study suggests that advanced genome editing technology could be used as a one-time treatment for the rare...
Scientists use tardigrade proteins for human health breakthrough
University of Wyoming researchers’ study of how microscopic creatures called tardigrades survive extreme conditions has led to a major breakthrough...
‘Fishing’ for biomarkers
While a popular hobby for many, fishing is also a pastime full of uncertainty. Each time you have something on...
Oregon State researchers begin to unravel whale entanglement risk factors off Oregon Coast
NEWPORT, Ore. – New research by an Oregon State University-led team is beginning to unravel the times of year and...
In hot water: Ocean warming impacts growth, metabolic rate and gene activity of newly hatched clownfish
Future ocean warming and marine heatwaves could impact the growth and development of clownfish during their earliest life stages, suggests...
Inbreeding contributes to decline of endangered killer whales
The small size and isolation of the endangered population of Southern Resident killer whales in the Pacific Northwest have led...
Coffee plantations limit birds’ diets
Cast your mind back to the spring of 2020, when grocery store shelves sat bare of essential items and ingredients....
UC San Diego Health opens new clinic in Bankers Hill
UC San Diego Health is expanding care offered to patients with a new, multidisciplinary clinic in Bankers Hill that will...
First detection of neutrinos made at a particle collider
A team including physicists of the University of Bern has for the first time detected subatomic particles called neutrinos created...
Emerging deforestation frontier in southwestern Amazon sees increase in burnings
A swathe of the Amazon Rainforest almost twice the size of Luxembourg was destroyed by fire between 2003 and 2019....
Monell Center team discovers molecular basis for alkaline taste
PHILADELPHIA (March 20, 2023) – The sense of taste is among the first to come into contact with food before...
