Climate change threatens thousands of archaeological sites in coastal Georgia
Thousands of historic and archaeological sites in Georgia are at risk from tropical storm surges, and that number will increase ...
Harassment on public transport negatively impacts women’s health and welfare, with existing measures being largely ineffective, per systematic review
Harassment on public transport negatively impacts women's health and welfare, with existing measures being largely ineffective, per systematic reviewCredit: Victoriano ...
ESA 2024 Graduate Student Policy Award Cohort named
The Ecological Society of America is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy ...
Avian influenza virus is adapting to spread to marine mammals
The highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 has adapted to spread between birds and marine mammals, posing an immediate threat ...
Pew names scientists from 6 countries as 2024 fellows in marine conservation
PHILADELPHIA—The Pew Charitable Trusts announced today that it has selected six distinguished researchers as recipients of the 2024 Pew fellowship ...
New tool helps decipher gene behaviour
Scientists have extensively researched the structure and sequence of genetic material and its interactions with proteins in the hope of ...
Anti-ageing drug rapamycin improves immune function through endolysosomes
The therapeutic drug rapamycin, which is normally used in cancer therapy and after organ transplants, can extend the lifespan and ...
Double trouble at chromosome ends
Double Trouble at Chromosome EndsCredit: Credit Sarah Cai Double Trouble at Chromosome Ends Half a century ago, scientists Jim Watson ...
CityUHK develops world-leading microwave photonics chip for high-speed signal processing
A research team led by Professor Wang Cheng from the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE) at City University of Hong Kong ...
Nature’s sonar: Scientists reveal how Japanese horseshoe bats perceive moving objects
Unlike most animals that rely on visual senses, bats navigate and locate prey or obstacles through echolocation. By emitting sounds ...
How 40Hz sensory gamma rhythm stimulation clears amyloid in Alzheimer’s mice
Studies at MIT and elsewhere are producing mounting evidence that light flickering and sound clicking at the gamma brain rhythm frequency of ...
Breeding programs initiated in Vietnam to help turtle species threatened by extinction
Conservationists have initiated breeding programs in Vietnam to recover spotted softshell turtle populations threatened by overconsumption and habitat loss.Credit: C. ...
Aorta recognised as an independent organ for the first time
Heart, lungs, brain, aorta: elevated to the highest league as an organ Credit: Medical Center - University of Freiburg / ...
Korea University College of Medicine identifies hantavirus in South Korea using a new rapid test, paving way for early outbreak control
Orthohantaviruses, highly transmissible zoonotic pathogens, are notorious for causing hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) in Eurasia and hantavirus cardiopulmonary ...
Sedentary behavior increases mortality risk
Based on decades-long observations of centenarians, author Dan Buettner (Blue Zones) conjectures that people live longer when they get up ...
Chemistry in the ground affect how many kids wild animals have
When humans get pregnant we go to the pharmacy and buy supplements. We know that pregnant women need supplementary folic acid, ...
Online toxicity can only be countered by humans and machines working together, according to Concordia researchers
Wading through the staggering amount of social media content being produced every second to find the nastiest bits is no ...
Counting rays: Aerial surveys reveal ample populations in Southeast Florida
The whitespotted eagle ray (Aetobatus narinari) and the giant manta ray (Mobula birostris) are rapidly declining globally. Both species are ...
Want fewer microplastics in your tap water? Try boiling it first
Nano- and microplastics are seemingly everywhere — water, soil and the air. While many creative strategies have been attempted to ...
Shedding light on the intricacies of numerical simulations of soil behavior
A solid understanding of soil mechanics and behavior is one of the fundamental pillars of geotechnical engineering. The stability and ...
