Shark fear: Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the water…
It’s one of the most famous taglines in film history, immortalising sharks as ruthless predators. But beyond the horror generated by Spielberg’s Jaws series, a...
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THE LANCET: Alarming new projections reveal soaring health risks of persistent global inaction over the climate emergency
Peer-reviewed / Review and Analysis / PeopleCredit: Please credit 'The Lancet' Peer-reviewed / Review and Analysis / People The Lancet: Alarming new projections reveal soaring...
SFI Press releases new editions of Murray Gell-Mann books
The opening lines of Homer’s Odyssey describe its eponymous hero as polytropos, a man of many turns. It’s no coincidence that SFI co-founder Murray Gell-Mann invoked Homer’s crafty,...
Study finds strongest evidence yet for local sources of cosmic ray electrons
A new study using data from the CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) instrument on the International Space Station has found evidence for nearby, young sources of...
UIUC professors receive AFOSR grant to study detrimental defects in superconducting qubit junctions
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professors Angela Kou (Physics), Pinshane Huang (MatSE), Wolfgang Pfaff (Physics) and Andre Schleife (MatSE) have received an Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant for their project “Identifying the origin...
Alcohol consumption and epigenetic age acceleration across human adulthood
“Our findings may help to understand the role of alcohol-associated biological aging in the development of age-related diseases such as CVD and cancer.”Credit: 2023 Wang...
University of Kentucky researcher helps solve 60-year mystery inside heart, publishes in Nature
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 14, 2023) — One University of Kentucky researcher has helped solve a 60-year-old mystery about one of the body’s most vital organs: The...
Downloading NASA’s dark matter data from above the clouds
Data from a NASA mission to map dark matter around galaxy clusters has been saved by a new recovery system designed by scientists at the...
Non-native species likely to continue spreading in North America, Australia and Europe
Naturalized species, which are not native but have established themselves in new locations, have the potential to spread even further to suitable habitats in many...
A sweet solution: turning winery waste into jelly
Researchers in Turkey have proposed a new sustainable solution for winery waste.Credit: Dr Gülce Bedis Kaynarca Researchers in Turkey have proposed a new sustainable solution...
Collaboration to improve the quality of in vivo antibiotics testing
New antibiotics are crucial in the fight against antimicrobial resistance. Assessing the effectiveness of new antibiotics requires standardised high-quality infection models, readily available to stakeholders...
Galactic ‘lightsabers’: Answering longstanding questions about jets from black holes
The one thing everyone knows about black holes is that absolutely everything nearby gets sucked into them.Credit: Video by George Wong, Institute for Advanced Study...
Researchers identify unexpected twist while developing new polymer-based semiconductors
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new study led by chemists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign brings fresh insight into the development of semiconductor materials that...
Keep it secret: Cloud data storage security approach taps quantum physics
Distributed cloud storage is a hot topic for security researchers around the globe pursuing secure data storage, and a team in China is now merging...
