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UNH receives $8M NSF grant to advance New Hampshire’s science and technology leadership
DURHAM, N.H.—New Hampshire will boost its research leadership as an innovator in science and technology and increase its STEM workforce...
Tiger beetles fight off bat attacks with ultrasonic mimicry
Bats, as the main predator of night-flying insects, create a selective pressure that has led many of their prey to...
Most dangerous areas for whale shark-shipping vessel collisions revealed
Researchers have found that heavily used shipping lanes pass through crucial whale shark feeding grounds, posing a threat to this...
Scientists develop an affordable sensor for lead contamination
Engineers at MIT, Nanytang Technological University, and several companies have developed a compact and inexpensive technology for detecting and measuring...
Professors elected to Academy of Distinguished Scholars
The University of Texas at Arlington has elected two longtime professors to the Academy of Distinguished Scholars, considered the University’s most...
Making every hair appointment a sound experience #ASA186
OTTAWA, Ontario, May 14, 2024 – Walking out of a hair salon can have customers feeling brand new, but the...
UTA biology students receive awards for excellence
Thirteen undergraduate and graduate students at The University of Texas at Arlington are being honored for excellence in academics, research,...
Researchers uncover what makes some chickens more water efficient than others
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — In the first scientific report of its kind, researchers in Arkansas showed that chickens bred for water...
Study tallies heatwave deaths over recent decades
Between 1990 and 2019, more than 150,000 deaths around the globe were associated with heatwaves each year, according to a...
Brookhaven Lab Biophysicist F. William Studier awarded Merkin prize in biomedical technology
Editor’s note: The following news release is adapted from one originally published by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, which administers...
MIT researchers discover the universe’s oldest stars in our own galactic backyard
MIT researchers, including several undergraduate students, have discovered three of the oldest stars in the universe, and they happen to...
Newly identified PET biomarker predicts success of immune checkpoint blockade therapy
Reston, VA—The protein galectin-1 (Gal-1) has been identified as a new PET imaging biomarker for immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy,...
Lessons in chemistry: Guo aims at fundamental understanding of emerging semiconductor material
Metal halide perovskites have emerged in recent years as a low-cost, highly efficient semiconducting material for solar energy, solid-state lighting...
How to ensure biodiversity data are FAIR, linked, open and future-proof? Policy makers and research funders receive expert recommendations from the BiCIKL project
Within the Biodiversity Community Integrated Knowledge Library (BiCIKL) project, 14 European institutions from ten countries, spent the last three years...
Discovery of the first ancestors of scorpions, spiders and horseshoe crabs
Who were the earliest ancestors of scorpions, spiders and horseshoe crabs? A PhD student from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland),...
Bitter makes the stomach acidic, but how?
In the stomach, so-called parietal cells are responsible for acid production. They react not only to the body's own messenger...
Distinct population of ‘troublemaker’ platelet cells appear with aging, lead to blood clotting, disease
As people age, they become more prone to blood clotting diseases, when blood cells called platelets clump together when they...
Courtship through flute song in Indigenous Southern Plains culture #ASA186
OTTAWA, Ontario, May 14, 2024 – Every love story is unique, and in traditional Indigenous Southern Plains culture, it begins...
SwRI investigating unusual substorm in Earth’s magnetotail using MMS data
SAN ANTONIO — May 14, 2024 —Southwest Research Institute is investigating an unusual event in the Earth’s magnetotail, the elongated...
Mislabelled shark meat rampant in Australian markets, study finds
Researchers at Macquarie University have found a significant portion of shark meat sold in Australian fish markets and takeaway shops...
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