Is ayahuasca safe? New study tallies adverse events
There is a high rate of adverse physical effects and challenging psychological effects from using the plant-based psychoactive ayahuasca, though they are generally not severe,...
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Inbred to well-fed: Maize breeding efforts to improve food security and safety in Africa
Over 300 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) depend on maize for nearly 30% of their caloric intake, and the popularity of maize is expected...
New Arizona State University school strengthens domestic semiconductor manufacturing
MESA, Ariz. -- Nearly 200 members of industry and Arizona State University affiliates celebrated the launch of the highly anticipated School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks at...
Sweet: Honey reduces cardiometabolic risks, study shows
Researchers at the University of Toronto have found that honey improves key measures of cardiometabolic health, including blood sugar and cholesterol levels — especially if...
Helping to make the British Virgin Islands more resilient to the impacts of climate change
Researchers from the University of Portsmouth are collaborating with the British Virgin Islands government to help make its inhabitants and biodiversity more resilient to the...
Container ship accidents are a little understood but emerging threat to marine ecosystems, a new Concordia study shows
An estimated 80 per cent of the world’s cargo is transported via ship-borne containers — a method that has soared in use in the decades...
Flight of birds can help provide predictions on turbulence, new study suggests
A new study led by Swansea University has shown how the flight of birds can offer a meteorological insight into fine scale environmental conditions.Credit: Emmanouil...
Albert Einstein College of Medicine receives $6.6M in NIH grants to lead New York consortium for kidney, urological, and hematological research and training
November 16, 2022—(BRONX, NY)—The National Institutes of Health has awarded Albert Einstein College of Medicine a five-year, $6.6 million grant to lead a New York-based...
Contrast-enhanced ultrasound, perfluorobutane diagnoses high-risk hepatocellular carcinoma
Leesburg, VA, November 16, 2022—According to an accepted manuscript published in ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), diagnostic performance of LR-5 for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)...
Stanford research ushers in a ‘new frontier’ in tackling global poverty
With electricity comes prosperity, right?Credit: Image credit: Ratledge et al, 2022, Nature With electricity comes prosperity, right? The answer might seem obvious – that electricity...
Alzheimer’s risk gene undermines insulation of brain’s “wiring”
It’s well known that carrying one copy of the APOE4 gene variant increases one’s risk for Alzheimer’s disease threefold and two copies about tenfold, but...
Weak evidence that interventions to boost housing affordability and stability promote better health
FINDINGSCredit: Wikipedia FINDINGS Research finds low-certainty evidence that programs such as emergency rent assistance, legal assistance with waitlist priority for public housing, long-term rent subsidies...
Scientists land $3 million NSF grant to empower local coral reef monitoring efforts
More than half a billion people depend on the fisheries, storm surge protection, ecotourism and other resources provided by tropical coral reefs. Although these communities...
Swedes with high incomes have more children
In contrast to what many believe, Swedish men and women with higher incomes have more children, new research from Stockholm University shows. This pattern is...
Funding awarded for an innovation to recover hydrogen from waste to help safeguard energy security
A team of experts at The University of Manchester led by Dr Amir Keshmiri have received UK government funding to work with Powerhouse Energy Plc - a world-leading company...
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