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Online shopping for cigarettes and vaping products increased significantly in the weeks following the implementation of SB-793, a 2022 California ...

Mountain goats seek snow to shake off insects

Losing summer snow patches may hit mountain goats hard, according to a study that suggests that goats seek out snow ...

Bisphenol A and asthma in mice

The “hygiene hypothesis” posits that allergic asthma can be triggered by a childhood environment that is too clean and sterile. ...

Previous genetic association studies involving people with European ancestry may be inaccurate

Researchers have found that previous studies analyzing the genomes of people with European ancestry may have reported inaccurate results by ...

A cutting-edge approach to tackling pollution in Houston and beyond

With its notoriously hot and humid climate and robust industrial environment, Houston is one of the most ozone-polluted cities in ...

Passion for vascular disease research yields $5 million in NIH funding for Yabing Chen

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Yabing Chen, Ph.D., has been awarded two National Institutes of Health grants totaling more than $5 million ...

Researchers reveal true crabs’ epic ancient odyssey from sea to land and back again

Crabs are unique and continuously evolving animals, often moving their lifestyles out of marine environments for other environments to do ...

Oran Young awarded the Mohn Prize 2024

During his long career, Oran Young has been a strong promoter of geopolitical attention to the Arctic. He is a ...

New study sheds light on Adélie penguins’ reliance on declining sea ice during molt

EMBARGOED UNTIL: 6, NOVEMBER, 2023, 3 PM US EASTERNCredit: Annie Schmidt/Point Blue EMBARGOED UNTIL: 6, NOVEMBER, 2023, 3 PM US ...

Frailty status in older adults associated with more adverse events after surgery

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Nov. 6, 2023 – A new study from researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine shows that ...

Success of Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes in fighting dengue may be underestimated

The fight against dengue fever has a new weapon: a mosquito infected with the bacteria Wolbachia, which prevents the spread ...

Written in the stars: WVU astrophysicists set to receive Shaw Prize, the ‘Nobel of the East’

For Duncan Lorimer and Maura McLaughlin, working at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico set off a sequence of life ...

Inconsistent uptake of US Federal Child and Adult Care Food Program means children lack access to nutritious food

Ann Arbor, November 6, 2023 – Current participation rates in the US federal Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) ...

Threatened sharks and rays caught off Cyprus

Sharks and rays from threatened species are being caught off northern Cyprus, according to a new study by scientists who ...

European wildcats avoided introduced domestic cats for 2,000 years

University of Oxford news releaseCredit: Saving Wildcats University of Oxford news release Strict embargo until Monday, 6 November, 2023. 11.00 ...

NIH study validates new scale for measuring pandemic-related traumatic stress in children and adults

The Pandemic-related Traumatic Stress Scale (PTSS) can be used to effectively measure stress related to the COVID-19 pandemic and identify ...

Uptake of methylmercury by phytoplankton is controlled by thiols

Methylmercury is one of the chemicals that poses the greatest threat to global public health. People ingest methylmercury by eating ...

UC Irvine-led science team shows how to eat our way out of the climate crisis

Irvine, Calif., Nov. 6, 2023 — Agriculture is one of the hardest human activities to decarbonize; people must eat, but ...

Green spaces can save lives, according to urban big data

Against the backdrop of global climate change, extreme heat events are becoming hotter, longer, and more frequent. Such sustained extreme ...

Studies of geologic faulting on icy moons aid exploration of extraterrestrial watery worlds