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More animal welfare or more environmental protection?
Which sustainability goals do people in Germany find more important: Animal welfare? Or environmental protection? Human health is another one...
Mass General Brigham names Paul Anderson Chief Academic Officer
Following a national search, Paul Anderson, MD, PhD, has been named Chief Academic Officer for Mass General Brigham. Anderson, who...
Neuroscientist Huda Akil, Ph.D., wins National Medal of Science
She has explored the brain’s secrets for more than 50 years, delving deep into the genes, proteins and cells that...
AZ-HOPE receives $3.2M HRSA grant to support future health care professionals
Arizona Health Opportunities Pathways to Excellence, a program of the University of Arizona Health Sciences Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, received...
Adding crushed rock to farmland pulls carbon out of the air
Adding crushed volcanic rock to cropland could play a key role in removing carbon from the air. In a field...
Bitcoin mining has “very worrying” impacts on land and water, not only carbon, UN-led study reveals
American Geophysical Union 24 October 2023 AGU Release No. 23-39 For Immediate Release Credit: Chamanara et al. (2023)/Earth's Future American Geophysical...
How mosquito-controlling bacteria might also enhance insect fertility
A new study reveals biological mechanisms by which a specific strain of bacteria in the Wolbachia genus might enhance the...
How eggs of the Zika-carrying mosquito survive desiccation
Eggs of the mosquito that carries Zika virus can tolerate extended desiccation by altering their metabolism, according to a new...
Synergistic roles of platinum nanoparticles and sodium ions within beta zeolites in n-alkylation of amines with aromatic alcohols
Organic N-alkyl amines are important chemical products and intermediate with wide applications in the fields of daily chemicals, pesticides, pharmaceuticals,...
UH project strives to improve dementia diagnosis for underrepresented women
As if menopause isn’t enough of an assault on a woman’s body, couple it with Type 2 Diabetes (DM), sleep...
Biggest ever supercomputer simulation to investigate Universe’s evolution
Astronomers have carried out the biggest ever computer simulations from the Big Bang to the present day to investigate how...
WVU researchers team up with middle school students to study potential benefits of acid rain
West Virginia University biologists will tap local eighth graders for help on important research studying what happens when acid rain...
SLAC scientists shed light on potential breakthrough biomedical molecule
Scientists from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have gained valuable insights into producing nitroxide, a molecule with...
ET phone Dublin? Astrophysicists scan the Galaxy for signs of life
Astrophysicists from Trinity College Dublin are scanning the Universe for “technosignatures” emanating from distant planets that would provide support for...
Professor Yong Sik Ok becomes the first Korean President of the International Society of Trace Element Biogeochemistry (ISTEB), a Prestigious Global Society
Founded in Austria in 1999, the International Society of Trace Element Biogeochemistry (ISTEB) is a non-profit scientific organization of scientists...
Tiny spirits roam the corals of Japan – two new pygmy squids discovered
The seagrass beds and coral reefs surrounding the Japanese sub-tropical islands of Okinawa are some of the most biodiverse ecosystems...
Child care centers unlikely source for COVID-19 transmission, study finds
Children in child care centers are not spreading COVID-19 at significant rates to caregivers or other children at the center,...
Making chemistry more accessible at the University of Oxford by providing period products
When it comes to the question of who gets to be a scientist, gender disparities are well-documented in many fields....
$9 million award from the Department of Defense will fund groundbreaking FutureG research
Lingjia Liu, professor of electrical and computer engineering who is also an inaugural faculty member at the Virginia Tech Innovation...
World Scientists’ Climate Report highlights perils as Earth enters “uncharted territory”
In a year marked by wildfire, catastrophic flooding, and deadly weather events, an international team of scientists has updated its...
