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World’s first successful embryo transfer in rhinos paves the way for saving the northern white rhinos from extinction
 Credit: photo by Jan Zwilling/BioRescue  BioRescue, an international consortium of scientists and conservationists, succeeded in achieving the world’s first...
Obesity spiked in children during COVID-19 lockdowns—only the youngest bounced back
Obesity among primary school children in the UK spiked during the COVID-19 lockdown, with a 45% increase between 2019/20 and...
Galápagos penguin is exposed to and may accumulate microplastics at high rate within its food web, modelling suggests
Modelling shows how microplastics may bioaccumulate in the Galápagos Islands food web, with Galápagos penguins most affected, according to a...
City of Hope, TGen researchers develop machine-learning tool to detect cancer earlier via liquid biopsy
LOS ANGELES — Researchers at City of Hope, one of the largest cancer research and treatment organizations in the United...
Moving humanoid robots outside research labs: the evolution of the iCub3 avatar system
Genova (Italy), 24 January 2024Â - Over the past four years, the research team at the Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence (AMI)...
Special Feature calls attention to biological invasion research in China
This month, the Ecological Society of America spotlights the challenge posed by invasive alien species in China with the release...
The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to the four discoverers of the biological mechanisms behind protein function and their role in the origin of multiple diseases
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biology and Biomedicine has gone in this sixteenth edition to the four...
New pieces in the puzzle of first life on Earth
Microorganisms were the first forms of life on our planet. The clues are written in 3.5 billion-year-old rocks by geochemical...
Sub-wavelength confinement of light demonstrated in indium phosphide nanocavity
WASHINGTON — As we transition to a new era in computing, there is a need for new devices that integrate...
New model predicts how shoe properties affect a runner’s performance
A good shoe can make a huge difference for runners, from career marathoners to couch-to-5K first-timers. But every runner is...
UBC researchers advocate for sustainable logging to safeguard against global flood risks
It’s time to recognize the power of healthy forests in managing global growing flood risk, and to shift towards more...
Global groundwater depletion is accelerating, but is not inevitable
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Groundwater is rapidly declining across the globe, often at accelerating rates. Writing in the journal Nature,...
A large percentage of European plastic sent to Vietnam ends up in nature
Despite strict EU regulations on plastic recycling, there is little oversight on plastic waste shipped from the EU to Vietnam....
A year of breakthroughs from Cincinnati Children’s
Cincinnati Children’s continues to be a cradle for great discoveries.Credit: Cincinnati Children's Cincinnati Children’s continues to be a cradle for...
Exposure to flame retardants linked to premature birth, higher birth weight
(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — In the largest study of its kind, researchers at UC Davis Health found that exposure to organophosphate...
Facial recognition app for dogs developed to help in fight against rabies
A new mobile phone-based facial recognition application for dogs has the potential to significantly improve rabies vaccination efforts in endemic...
New study unveils how plants control the production of reactive oxygen species
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are highly reactive molecules containing oxygen. These compounds, which are normal byproducts of biological processes in...
The fountain of youth is … a T cell?
The fountain of youth has eluded explorers for ages. It turns out the magic anti-aging elixir might have been inside...
Ultrafast excitations in correlated systems
An international team of researchers from the European XFEL together with colleagues from the Max Born Institute in Berlin, Universities...
TRAILS AI Institute announces first round of Seed Funding
The Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRAILS) has unveiled an inaugural round of seed grants designed to...
