Vermont’s pioneering food waste laws are popular, but vexing issues remain
Vermonters largely support laws on food scraps and single-use plastics, but some are confused about composting rules, and frustrated with...
USC Stem Cell-led studies point the way to broadly effective treatments for ALS
Each year in the U.S., 5,000 patients receive a diagnosis of ALS, an incurable neurodegenerative disease that will likely kill...
Optimal layout for a hospital isolation room to contain COVID-19 includes ceiling vent
WASHINGTON, February 7, 2023 – A group of researchers recently modeled the transmission of COVID-19 within an isolation room at...
How to reverse unknown quantum processes
In the world around us processes appear to follow a certain time-direction: dandelions eventually turn into blowballs. However, the quantum...
Pusan National University researchers link suicide prevalence to geographical latitude
Over the years, deaths due to suicide have become prevalent across the globe, with estimates suggesting that almost 800,000 people...
Copy-cat? Youth with few friends conform to stay in a friend’s ‘good graces’
Peer influence is pervasive during childhood and adolescence. Conformity can foster similarity, which makes it easier to get along and...
Forest management will have a stronger effect than climate change on the supply of ecosystem services
Forests contribute to human well-being by providing a wide variety of ecosystem services to the society. The boreal biome is...
UTSA STEM faculty honored by internationally renowned scientific council
Two faculty members from UTSA were elected as 2022 Fellows for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). They are...
Shellac-based coating makes pulp materials suitable for food without use of petroleum based polymers or metals
Researchers at the School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand and the School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen...
New insecticidal compounds remain effective against target species while reducing bee toxicity
Researchers at South China Agricultural University have developed new insecticidal compounds that show significantly reduced bee toxicity without reducing effectiveness...
HKUMed establishes international consensus recommendations on using plasma EBV DNA in clinical management of nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Led by the Department of Clinical Oncology, School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong...
Antibiotic innovation helps fight against superbugs
RMIT scientists have created a new type of antibiotic that can be rapidly re-engineered to avoid resistance by dangerous superbugs.Credit:...
It takes two: cooperating catalysts provide new route for utilizing formate salts
Two catalysts working in tandem enable inexpensive formate salts to perform difficult dearomative reactions, giving products potentially useful for drug...
High-gain antenna for NASA’s Roman mission clears environmental tests
Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn
International group of scientists warns nuclear radiation has devastating impacts on ecosystems
Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened the use of “tactical” nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine, but nuclear weapons of any...
UTIA professor receives Outstanding Early Career Animal Scientist Award in Research
Phillip Myer, an associate professor in the Department of Animal Science at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, has...
Political leaning shapes physicians’ and laypeople’s beliefs about COVID-19 treatments
Political ideology shapes attitudes about COVID-19 treatments not just for the general U.S. population but also for critical care physicians,...
Loss of reptiles poses threat for small islands where humans may have caused extinctions
A new examination of ancient and current species of reptiles conducted by a University of Texas at Austin paleobiologist reveals...
VUMC’s ‘Shed-MEDS’ protocol can reduce risk of drug interactions in older people
An estimated one in six older adults in the United States who take multiple prescription drugs risk major drug-drug interactions...
Seven new species of whitefish described in Central Switzerland
Biologists at Eawag have identified ten species of whitefish in the lakes of the Reuss river system. Of these, seven...
