School-based wellness initiative shown to reduce average student BMI
Health impacts students’ ability to learn. Leaders at MUSC’s Boeing Center for Children’s Wellness (MUSC BCCW) believe that lessons on ...
Aging | Telomere shortening linked to depression and cognitive impairment in older adults
“ we believe that our findings will help prevent and treat depression and cognitive impairment in the healthy elderly.”Credit: 2023 ...
SFI Press reissues Complexity, Entropy, and the Physics of Information
FEBRUARY 28, 2023Credit: Santa Fe Institute FEBRUARY 28, 2023 For a few days early in the summer of 1989, roughly ...
Mysterious new behavior seen in whales may be recorded in ancient manuscripts
In 2011, scientists recorded a previously unknown feeding strategy in whales around the world. Now, researchers in Australia think they ...
Novel method of analyzing microplastic particle pollution can facilitate environmental impact assessment
In the last decade, growing numbers of researchers have studied plastic pollution, one of the world’s most pressing environmental hazards. ...
BIAL Award in Biomedicine worth 300,000 Euros
The third edition of the BIAL Foundation's international award, the BIAL Award in Biomedicine, is now underway, with nominations open ...
Better metric for prioritizing conservation of “evolutionarily distinctive” species
An updated metric for prioritizing species’ conservation that incorporates scientific uncertainty and complementarity between species, in addition to extinction risk ...
Sexting found to be associated with negative mental heath
A new study has shown that sexting was associated with depression, anxiety, sleep problems, and compulsive sexual behaviors. The study ...
Report: Science rejected, lives lost – how society can do better
The international group of scientists who successfully lobbied the World Health Organisation to recognise the airborne transmission of COVID-19 have ...
Artificial intelligence with a human touch
Despite the remarkable progress in artificial intelligence (AI), several studies show that AI systems do not improve radiologists' diagnostic performance. ...
Study finds association between lifetime experiences of discrimination and incidence of dementia
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Feb. 28, 2023 – According to new research from Wake Forest University School of Medicine, people who experience ...
St. Jude approach prevents drug resistance and toxicity
(MEMPHIS, Tenn. – February 27, 2023) Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have demonstrated how drug makers can avoid two ...
Activation of peroxymonosulfate and photothermal for removal of phenolic organic pollutants and lignin derivatives
At present, the traditional ways to deal with the above two kinds of pollutants are mainly physical adsorption and biodegradation. ...
Defect engineering for advanced electrocatalytic conversion of nitrogen-containing molecules
This study is led by Prof. Shuangyin Wang (College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University) and Prof. Chen Chen ...
A motion freezer for many particles
Using lasers to slow down atoms is a technique that has been used for a long time already: If one ...
In the end, it’s the individual advantage that counts
In a lake or river, between one and 10 million bacteria live in just 1 ml of water. Such a ...
Pulmonary and primary care experts share clinician toolkit on Rare Disease Day to raise awareness for interstitial lung disease
Glenview, IL, February 28, 2023 – The expert steering committee for Bridging Specialties™: Timely Diagnosis for ILD is encouraging primary ...
Super-fast insect urination powered by the physics of superpropulsion
Credit: Georgia Institute of Technology Saad Bhamla was in his backyard when he noticed something he had never seen ...
Jurassic shark – Shark from the Jurassic period was already highly evolved
Cartilaginous fish have changed much more in the course of their evolutionary history than previously believed. Evidence for this thesis ...
Digital twin opens way to effective treatment of inflammatory diseases
Inflammatory diseases like rheumatoid arthritis have complex disease mechanisms that can differ from patient to patient with the same diagnosis. ...
