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Urban resilience champion to lead University of Miami’s Climate Resilience Academy
Flood waters that turned many of Mumbai’s streets into rivers during the heavy monsoon rains of 2007 taught Michael Berkowitz...
New chemical process makes it easier to craft amino acids that don’t exist in nature
Every protein in your body is made up of the same 20 building blocks called amino acids. But just because...
Researchers use geospatial mapping to assist burn patients
University of Texas at Dallas researchers are using geospatial mapping techniques to identify social and environmental obstacles in communities that...
Nuclear spin’s impact on biological processes uncovered
A research team led by Prof. Yossi Paltiel at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with groups from HUJI, Weizmann and...
Diving deep: Unveiling the secrets of microalgae to cope with environmental challenges.
Environmental change, such as ocean warming, alters resource competition and biodiversity. Thus, it is essential to understand how organisms respond...
National Autism Indicators Report calls for health care policy improvements for future public health emergencies
The COVID-19 pandemic and mitigation measures changed how people accessed health care services and engaged in their communities. Access to...
School meals would be even healthier if compliant with US nutrition standards, study finds
Today’s school meals are much healthier than they were for the parents of American kids, but still 1 in 4...
NIH launches long COVID clinical trials through RECOVER Initiative, opening enrollment
Monday, July 31, 2023Credit: Pfizer EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE Monday, July 31, 2023 Noon EDT Contact NIH Office of Communications and...
For the first time bioelectronic medicine researchers at the Feinstein Institutes restore feeling and lasting movement in man living with quadriplegia
MANHASSET, NY – In a first-of-its-kind clinical trial, bioelectronic medicine researchers, engineers and surgeons at Northwell Health’s The Feinstein Institutes for Medical...
Nanoneedles formed on an electrocatalyst improve hydrogen production
The low-cost, efficient production of hydrogen is an important step toward developing alternative, clean energy sources. Electrochemical water splitting, which...
67 percent of vaccinated Brazilian women had a cervical screening test | BGI Insight
With Brazil's National Cancer Institute estimating 17,010 new cases in 2023, cervical cancer is the third leading cause of morbidity...
When electrons slowly vanish during cooling
Many substances change their properties when they are cooled below a certain critical temperature. Such a phase transition occurs, for...
Water-durable perovskite-oxynitride supported nickel catalysts for ammonia decomposition
Hydrogen has become the beacon of clean energy owing to its high energy density and carbon-free emissions. Despite these advantages,...
Luzio, who lived in São Paulo 10,000 years ago, was Amerindian like Indigenous people now, DNA reveals
An article to be published on July 31 in Nature Ecology & Evolution reveals that Luzio, the oldest human skeleton...
Way cool: UVA professor developing ‘freeze ray’ technology for the Air Force
You know that freeze-ray gun that “Batman” villain Mr. Freeze uses to “ice” his enemies? A University of Virginia professor...
To spread or slide? Scientists uncover how foams are spread on surfaces
Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have uncovered the physics behind how foams are spread on surfaces. Balls...
Registration opens for Pennington Biomedical’s 2023 Men’s Health Summit
The 2023 Men’s Health Summit at Pennington Biomedical Research Center returns Saturday, Aug. 26, from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m....
New study findings underscore the importance of timely newborn screenings in early care for cystic fibrosis
Aurora, Colo. (July 28, 2023) – The Journal of Pediatrics has published a manuscript by Stacey Martiniano, MD, pulmonary specialist at...
Royal Society of Chemistry honors Hong with fellow selection
The Royal Society of Chemistry has named Yi Hong, a distinguished university professor of bioengineering at The University of Texas...
A wearable ultrasound scanner could detect breast cancer earlier
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- When breast cancer is diagnosed in the earliest stages, the survival rate is nearly 100 percent. However,...
