Laser-treated cork absorbs oil for carbon-neutral ocean cleanup
WASHINGTON, April 23, 2024 – Oil spills are deadly disasters for ocean ecosystems. They can have lasting impacts on fish and marine mammals for decades...
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POSTECH Professor Seung-Ki Min has been honored as the National Champion of the “Frontiers Planet Prize 2024” specializing in sustainability and environment
Professor Seung-Ki Min from the Division of Environmental Science & Engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) has been selected as Korea's national...
Urgent need for logging loophole remedy within proposed koala national park
A team of conservation and policy researchers have called for a logging loophole within the proposed Great Koala National Park to be urgently remedied to...
Announcing the second cohort of the Hevolution/AFAR new investigator awardees in aging biology and geroscience research
New York, NY —The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) is pleased to announce the second cohort of the Hevolution/AFAR New Investigator Awards in Aging Biology and...
Aerogel-based PCMs improve thermal management, reduce microwave emissions in electronic devices
Electronic devices are getting more and more complex as they are built to carry out an ever-increasing number of functions. This can be seen in...
Advances in understanding the evolution of stomach loss in agastric fishes
Living beings can evolve to lose biological structures due to potential survival benefits from such losses. For example, certain groups of ray-finned fishes show such...
Perfecting the view on a crystal’s imperfection
NEW YORK, April 23, 2024 — Single-photon emitters (SPEs) are akin to microscopic lightbulbs that emit only one photon (a quantum of light) at a...
Fossil frogs share their skincare secrets
Palaeontologists at University College Cork (UCC), Ireland, have solved a hundred-year-old mystery of how some fossil frogs preserve their fleshy parts – it’s all down...
Existing drugs studied in patients with rare immune diseases
Existing drugs studied in patients with rare immune diseasesCredit: University Medical Center Utrecht Existing drugs studied in patients with rare immune diseases This month the...
Odor-causing bacteria in armpits targeted using bacteriophage-derived lysin
Body odor from the armpits comes from bacteria metabolizing sweat produced by the apocrine glands. These bacteria are native to our skin, but the odors...
SharpeRatio@k: novel metric for evaluation of risk-return tradeoff in off-policy evaluation
Reinforcement learning (RL) is a machine learning technique that trains software by mimicking the trial-and-error learning process of humans. It has demonstrated considerable success in...
$1.8M NIH grant will help researchers follow a virus on its path to the nucleus
Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson were awarded a $1.8 million grant by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, a division...
Bella moths use poison to attract mates. Scientists are closer to finding out how
Pyrrolizidine alkaloids are as bitter and toxic as they are hard to pronounce. They’re produced by several different types of plants and are among the...
Is there an association between HPV vaccination and anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis?
Anti-N-methyl-d-aspartate (Anti-NMDA) receptor encephalitis is an acute autoimmune disorder that develops both neurological symptoms and psychiatric symptoms, including hallucination, cognitive disturbance, epilepsy, movement disorder, and...
Bonobos aren’t as peace-loving as we thought
The endangered bonobo, the great ape of the Central African rainforest, has a reputation for being a bit of a hippie. Known as more peaceful...
