Food taxes, farm subsidies and GM crops: new ‘how-to’ guide launched for tailor-made food policies
October 10, WASHINGTON D.C. – A new tool will help governments customise food and agriculture policies based on country-level circumstances ...
THE LANCET NEUROLOGY: Stroke could cause nearly 10 million deaths annually by 2050, mostly in LMICs, and cost up to US$2 trillion per year, new report warns
Peer-reviewed / Modelling, Review, and Opinion / PeopleCredit: The Lancet Peer-reviewed / Modelling, Review, and Opinion / People New World ...
International team of scientists says identifying some foods as addictive could shift attitudes, stimulate research
Researchers from the United States, Brazil, and Spain, including scientists with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, published an ...
What is the impact of predictive AI in the health care setting?
Models built on machine learning in health care can be victims of their own success, according to researchers at the ...
Climate-driven extreme heat may make parts of Earth too hot for humans
If global temperatures increase by 1 degree Celsius (C) or more than current levels, each year billions of people will ...
Long-term lizard study challenges the rules of evolutionary biology
Charles Darwin said that evolution was constantly happening, causing animals to adapt for survival. But many of his contemporaries disagreed. ...
Could a specialized diet alleviate long COVID?
LOS ANGELES — Approximately 7% of Americans have had long COVID, a range of ongoing health problems experienced after infection ...
New study finds that the Gulf Stream is warming and shifting closer to shore
Credit: Illustration by Natalie Renier/©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Journal Nature Climate Change DOI 10.1038/s41558-023-01835-w Method of Research Data/statistical analysis Subject ...
Miriam Merad, M.D., Ph.D., elected to the National Academy of Medicine for seminal work in immunology and cell biology
Miriam Merad, M.D., Ph.D., an esteemed immunologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has been elected to ...
Newly-discovered “margarita snails” from the Florida Keys are bright lemon-yellow
The “Margaritaville” in Jimmy Buffett’s famous song isn’t a real place, but it’s long been associated with the Florida Keys. ...
Tropical ecosystems more reliant on emerging aquatic insects, study finds, potentially putting them at greater risk
A team of researchers from Queen Mary University of London and the University of Campinas in Brazil has found that ...
Researchers identify largest ever solar storm in ancient 14,300-year-old tree rings
An international team of scientists have discovered a huge spike in radiocarbon levels 14,300 years ago by analysing ancient tree-rings ...
Is this how antidepressants work, and why they take weeks to kick-in?
Type of work: peer-reviewed/randomised controlled trial/peopleCredit: (credit: Marc Dingman, Neuroscientifically Challenged (www.neurochallenged.com). Type of work: peer-reviewed/randomised controlled trial/people SSRI antidepressants ...
Teaching expectant mothers to bond with their babies
Type of work: Peer-reviewed / experimental study / peopleCredit: Design by Dr. Anne Bjertrup via Canva Type of work: Peer-reviewed ...
Scientists upcycle polyesters through new waste-free, scalable process
Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a new chemical process which upcycles polyesters, including PET in ...
SUSTAIN Center at UH commemorates five years of combatting AIDS/HIV epidemic in Southern U.S.
The SUSTAIN Wellbeing COMPASS Coordinating Center of the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work has made a lasting ...
Wearable bracelet tracks bipolar mood swings: changing electrical signals in skin linked to manic or depressed moods
Not peer-reviewed/experimental study/peopleCredit: redit: Diego Hidalgo-Mazzei Not peer-reviewed/experimental study/people Researchers have announced preliminary results of using wearable technology to measure ...
The currency of conservation
Governments, nonprofit organizations, and other groups spend roughly $100 billion a year to support conservation. Restrictions on where conservation funds ...
ORNL is poised to have a major role in the future of nuclear physics
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a bastion of nuclear physics research for the past 80 years, is ...
World-first research breakthrough sparks new hope for bowel cancer patients
Every year, over 15,500 Australians are diagnosed with bowel cancer, and it is the second leading cause of cancer deaths ...