Cold water, diverse survival strategies may be key to Chinook salmon success in a changing climate
April 18, 2023 | Portland, OR – A study published today in Fish & Fisheries offers a comprehensive look at ...
Large animals travel more slowly because they can’t keep cool
Whether an animal is flying, running or swimming, its traveling speed is limited by how effectively it sheds the excess ...
Dixit receives 2023 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award
Marm Dixit, a Weinberg Distinguished Staff Fellow at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has received the 2023 ...
Physics professor receives best paper award
Wei Chen, professor of physics at The University of Texas at Arlington, is co-author of an article that has received ...
Concordia researchers fight shallow lake algae blooms with floating filtration technique
Climate change and human activity have been putting pressure on water bodies worldwide, and Canada’s vast network of lakes is ...
Boosting multi-hole water oxidation catalysis on hematite photoanodes under low bias
This study is led by Prof. Yuchao Zhang (Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences).Credit: ©Science China Press This ...
Biological invasions as costly as natural disasters
By invading new environments, some alien species have caused disastrous consequences for local species and ecosystems, as well as for ...
Researchers ID gene that shapes heart attack, aneurysm risk
University of School of Medicine researchers have identified a gene that plays a crucial role in determining our risk for ...
Teasing strange matter from the ordinary
NEWPORT NEWS, VA – In a unique analysis of experimental data, nuclear physicists have made the first-ever observations of how ...
A recent research on why pundits can be unreliable
Decisions by policymakers and managers often rely on predictions and forecasts provided by experts. For instance, policymakers may increase public ...
Swimming secrets of prehistoric reptiles unlocked by new study
Some of the most extraordinary body transformations in evolution have occurred in animals that adapted to life in water from ...
Narrative risk messaging and vaccine hesitancy
Public health messages that focus on protecting others are more effective at increasing vaccination rates than messages focused on protecting ...
Carbon ‘bank’ at risk of failure: Scientists trying to determine what will happen to massive carbon stores as rainforests dry out
Tropical rainforests store 25%-40% of global soil carbon, though they occupy only 7% of Earth’s land area. By functioning as ...
Global study first to compare COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among college students
As the world enters a post-pandemic phase, an international study is providing unique perspectives on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancies among college ...
Quantum liquid becomes solid when heated
Supersolids are a relatively new and exciting area of research. They exhibit both solid and superfluid properties simultaneously. In 2019, ...
Not such small things: Microplastics in our streams
UC Riverside scientists are taking a modern approach to studying a murky subject — the quantity, quality, and sources of ...
How electricity can heal wounds three times as fast
Chronic wounds are a major health problem for diabetic patients and the elderly – in extreme cases they can even ...
School discipline can be predicted, new research says. Is it preventable?
Berkeley — Rates of school discipline fluctuate widely and predictably throughout a school year and increase significantly faster for Black students than ...
Warming climate will affect streamflow in the northeast
Over the past 25 years, the Northeast has experienced the largest increase in extreme precipitation nationally. Prior research has shown ...
Medical dramas influence thoughts on dangers from vaping, new Twitter analysis reveals
After three popular primetime medical dramas included storylines about health harms from using e-cigarettes, hundreds of people took to Twitter ...
