Defunding prevention and climate change drive rebound of malaria in Peru
DURHAM, N.C. -- Malaria control programs in Amazonian Peru helped reduce the incidence of the deadly parasitic disease by 78 ...
A recipe for 3D-printing food
WASHINGTON, March 21, 2023 – 3D-printing food could address global challenges in food supply and nutrition. But there are hurdles ...
Healthy men who have vaginal sex have a distinct urethral microbiome
Contrary to common beliefs, your urine is not germ free. In fact, a new study shows that the urethra of ...
Cascading failures in urban traffic systems tied to hidden bottlenecks
WASHINGTON, March 21, 2023 – Transportation systems in urban settings are vulnerable to a variety of factors including weather, traffic ...
New intracellular “smoke detector” discovered
Researchers at the Universities of Bonn and Singapore have discovered a new intracellular "smoke detector." The sensor warns of damage ...
A persistent influence of supernovae on biodiversity
Extensive studies of the fossil record have shown that the diversity of life forms has varied significantly over geological time, ...
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution helps lead groundbreaking study on the human and ocean health impacts of ocean plastics
March 21, 2023 — For the first time, leading researchers from the fields of healthcare, ocean science, and social science ...
Forests reduce health risks, new global report confirms
Vienna, March, 21, 2023 - The global scientific evidence of the multiple types of benefits that forests, trees and green ...
Study confirms nitrate can release uranium into groundwater
Eight years ago, the data was sound but only suggestive, the evidence strong but circumstantial.Credit: Daugherty Water for Food Global ...
Pusan National University researchers develop portable color-changing food spoilage sensor
When foods like fish, meat, and cheese decompose, they release a variety of low molecular weight organic nitrogen compounds known ...
Single-atom vibrational spectroscopy now sensitive at level of chemical bonds
Researchers led by Prof. ZHOU Wu from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) and Prof. Sokrates T. Pantelides ...
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 ...
