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Taming noise behind bars #Acoustics23
SYDNEY, Dec. 6, 2023 – Prisons are typically noisy environments, filled with clanking metal bars and echoing concrete surfaces. This...
Singing in the rain: Why the bundengan sounds better wet #Acoustics23
SYDNEY, Dec. 6, 2023 – A bundengan wears many hats – and is one too. This portable shelter woven from...
Limitations of asteroid crater lakes as climate archives
In southern Germany just north of the Danube, there lies a large circular depression between the hilly surroundings: the Nördlinger...
Picking up good vibrations: The surprising physics of the didjeridu #Acoustics23
SYDNEY, Dec. 6, 2023 – Australia’s most iconic sound is almost certainly the didjeridu. The long wooden tube-shaped instrument is...
Incarcerated women punished at higher rates for minor infractions than men, UTEP study shows
EL PASO, Texas (Dec. 5, 2023) – A new study from The University of Texas at El Paso reveals a...
‘Friendly’ hyenas are more likely to form mobs
After more than 35 years of surveillance, Michigan State University researchers are exposing some of the secret workings of mobs.Credit:...
Dorothee Dormann receives an ERC Consolidator Grant to support her research into neurodegenerative diseases
The protein TDP-43 is present in all cells of our body and important for their biochemical processes. However, this protein...
Chemists create organic molecules in a rainbow of colors
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Chains of fused carbon-containing rings have unique optoelectronic properties that make them useful as semiconductors. These chains,...
Jefferson Lab site grows with addition of Applied Research Center
NEWPORT NEWS, VA – The Applied Research Center (ARC) is tying the knot with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas...
Cable-Dunlap, Chi, Smith and Thornton named ORNL Corporate Fellows
Four researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been named ORNL Corporate Fellows in recognition of...
Small but mighty: Microparticles from the placenta may offer major clues on the in utero development of neurobehavioral disorders
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- For 30 years, Cheryl Rosenfeld has studied how biological information gets transferred from mothers to babies during...
UofL secures $6.5 million to enhance training for nursing professionals
The University of Louisville has received $6.5 million through two federal grants to help increase Kentuckians’ access to health care,...
Membrane raft redox signaling contributes to visfatin-induced inflammation and kidney damage
“ the exact mechanism of how obesity increases the advancement of chronic kidney disease is still uncertain.”Credit: 2023 Koka et...
Pregnant women are missing vital nutrients needed for them and their babies – and situation could worsen with plant-based foods
Pregnant women are not getting the essential nutrients they and their babies need from modern diets say scientists, who have...
Why regional differences in global warming are critical
Scientists use climate models to simulate past climate, in order to determine how and why it has changed. As a...
Marshall School of Medicine dean recognized on 2023 Highly Cited Researchers List
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – David Gozal, M.D., M.B.A., Ph.D. (Hon), vice president of health affairs and dean of the Joan C....
WVU research helps power plants recycle water using wastewater from oil and gas mining
Simulations from West Virginia University researchers demonstrate their use of two kinds of industrial wastewater to decontaminate each other has...
ECNU review of education highlights network ethnography in researching global education policy
The word “mobility” conjures up images and ideas of the movement of people, capital, and things from one place to...
Harvesting water from air with solar power
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, 2023 – More than 2.2 billion people currently live in water-stressed countries, and the United Nations estimates...
Florida wildflowers and pollinators get a boost with two grants
The Daniels Lab at the Florida Museum of Natural History was recently awarded two grants to help support pollinators in...
