Taming noise behind bars #Acoustics23
SYDNEY, Dec. 6, 2023 – Prisons are typically noisy environments, filled with clanking metal bars and echoing concrete surfaces. This level of constant noise is...
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Singing in the rain: Why the bundengan sounds better wet #Acoustics23
SYDNEY, Dec. 6, 2023 – A bundengan wears many hats – and is one too. This portable shelter woven from bamboo has protected Indonesian duck...
Limitations of asteroid crater lakes as climate archives
In southern Germany just north of the Danube, there lies a large circular depression between the hilly surroundings: the Nördlinger Ries. Almost 15 million years...
Picking up good vibrations: The surprising physics of the didjeridu #Acoustics23
SYDNEY, Dec. 6, 2023 – Australia’s most iconic sound is almost certainly the didjeridu. The long wooden tube-shaped instrument is famous for its unique droning...
Incarcerated women punished at higher rates for minor infractions than men, UTEP study shows
EL PASO, Texas (Dec. 5, 2023) – A new study from The University of Texas at El Paso reveals a gender disparity in prison infractions...
‘Friendly’ hyenas are more likely to form mobs
After more than 35 years of surveillance, Michigan State University researchers are exposing some of the secret workings of mobs.Credit: Brittany Gunther, available under a...
Dorothee Dormann receives an ERC Consolidator Grant to support her research into neurodegenerative diseases
The protein TDP-43 is present in all cells of our body and important for their biochemical processes. However, this protein can aggregate into large clumps...
Chemists create organic molecules in a rainbow of colors
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Chains of fused carbon-containing rings have unique optoelectronic properties that make them useful as semiconductors. These chains, known as acenes, can also...
Jefferson Lab site grows with addition of Applied Research Center
NEWPORT NEWS, VA – The Applied Research Center (ARC) is tying the knot with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. Today,...
Cable-Dunlap, Chi, Smith and Thornton named ORNL Corporate Fellows
Four researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been named ORNL Corporate Fellows in recognition of significant career accomplishments and continued...
Small but mighty: Microparticles from the placenta may offer major clues on the in utero development of neurobehavioral disorders
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- For 30 years, Cheryl Rosenfeld has studied how biological information gets transferred from mothers to babies during pregnancy. The research is personal...
UofL secures $6.5 million to enhance training for nursing professionals
The University of Louisville has received $6.5 million through two federal grants to help increase Kentuckians’ access to health care, particularly in underserved rural and...
Membrane raft redox signaling contributes to visfatin-induced inflammation and kidney damage
“ the exact mechanism of how obesity increases the advancement of chronic kidney disease is still uncertain.”Credit: 2023 Koka et al. “ the exact mechanism...
Pregnant women are missing vital nutrients needed for them and their babies – and situation could worsen with plant-based foods
Pregnant women are not getting the essential nutrients they and their babies need from modern diets say scientists, who have warned that the situation will...
Why regional differences in global warming are critical
Scientists use climate models to simulate past climate, in order to determine how and why it has changed. As a result of man-made climate change...
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