Wildfires have erased two decades’ worth of air quality gains in western United States
You need only to remember last summer’s wildfires in the United States and Canada, which fouled the air from coast to coast, to know the...
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A farsighted approach to tackle nearsightedness #Acoustics23
SYDNEY, Dec. 5, 2023 – Modern living may be contributing to an epidemic of nearsighted vision and related blindness. By 2050, it is estimated that...
ORNL engineer Karen White honored with Lifetime Achievement Award
Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Karen White, who works in ORNL’s Neutron Science Directorate, has been honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award.Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL,U.S. Dept. of...
Strange burn: new research identifies unique patterns in Utah wildfires
For a century fire ecologists have worked to decipher a complex question — what does a “normal'' wildfire year look like in the West? That’s...
Osteopontin induces mitochondrial biogenesis in deadherent cancer cells
“Here, we study the induction of mitochondrial biogenesis by Osteopontin variants in deadherent breast tumor cells.”Credit: 2023 Fnu and Weber “Here, we study the induction...
Health Affairs’ December Issue: Global Lessons From COVID-19
Washington D.C.—The December Health Affairs, a theme issue about the lessons learned around the globe from the COVID-19 pandemic, covers topics including how modeling was...
Georgia State professor granted $5 million to identify and characterize objects in space
ATLANTA — Georgia State Professor of Physics & Astronomy Stuart Jefferies has been awarded a $5 million, multi-institutional grant by the U.S. Air Force to develop techniques...
Applications open for School of Advanced Science on Transdisciplinarity for Transformative Change
Designed mainly for graduate students and early-career researchers, but also traditional knowledge holders and professionals from environmental and social science fields with an interest in...
Researchers awarded $1M to protect coastal communities, aquaculture industry
UMass Lowell scientists developing low-cost, portable biosensors to safeguard the health of marine and freshwater environments have received $1 million from the National Science Foundation...
Immune protein may induce dementia unrelated to high blood pressure
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have found that controlling high blood pressure may not be enough to prevent associated cognitive declines. The findings point to...
Tiny electromagnets made of ultra-thin carbon
Graphene, that is extremely thin carbon, is considered a true miracle material. An international research team has now added another facet to its diverse properties...
‘Doughnut’ beams help physicists see incredibly small objects
In a new study, researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have used doughnut-shaped beams of light to take detailed images of objects too tiny...
More than 100 “magic mushroom” genomes point the way to new cultivars
Scientists have amassed genome data for dozens of “magic mushroom” isolates and cultivars, with the goal to learn more about how their domestication and cultivation...
Earliest-known fossil mosquito suggests males were bloodsuckers too
Researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on December 4 have found the earliest-known fossil mosquito in Lower Cretaceous amber from Lebanon. What’s more, the...
Eating disorder hospitalizations on the rise, affecting ‘atypical’ groups the most
Toronto, ON, December 4, 2023 – There was a disproportionate rise in pediatric eating disorder hospitalizations among males, younger adolescents, and individuals with eating disorder...
