Study tallies heatwave deaths over recent decades
Between 1990 and 2019, more than 150,000 deaths around the globe were associated with heatwaves each year, according to a new study published May 14th...
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Brookhaven Lab Biophysicist F. William Studier awarded Merkin prize in biomedical technology
Editor’s note: The following news release is adapted from one originally published by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, which administers the Merkin Prize.Credit: Roger Stoutenburgh/Brookhaven...
MIT researchers discover the universe’s oldest stars in our own galactic backyard
MIT researchers, including several undergraduate students, have discovered three of the oldest stars in the universe, and they happen to live in our own galactic...
Newly identified PET biomarker predicts success of immune checkpoint blockade therapy
Reston, VA—The protein galectin-1 (Gal-1) has been identified as a new PET imaging biomarker for immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy, allowing physicians to predict the...
Lessons in chemistry: Guo aims at fundamental understanding of emerging semiconductor material
Metal halide perovskites have emerged in recent years as a low-cost, highly efficient semiconducting material for solar energy, solid-state lighting and more. Despite their growing...
How to ensure biodiversity data are FAIR, linked, open and future-proof? Policy makers and research funders receive expert recommendations from the BiCIKL project
Within the Biodiversity Community Integrated Knowledge Library (BiCIKL) project, 14 European institutions from ten countries, spent the last three years elaborating on services and high-tech...
Discovery of the first ancestors of scorpions, spiders and horseshoe crabs
Who were the earliest ancestors of scorpions, spiders and horseshoe crabs? A PhD student from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), with the support of a...
Bitter makes the stomach acidic, but how?
In the stomach, so-called parietal cells are responsible for acid production. They react not only to the body's own messenger molecules, but also to bitter-tasting...
Distinct population of ‘troublemaker’ platelet cells appear with aging, lead to blood clotting, disease
As people age, they become more prone to blood clotting diseases, when blood cells called platelets clump together when they don’t need to and can...
Courtship through flute song in Indigenous Southern Plains culture #ASA186
OTTAWA, Ontario, May 14, 2024 – Every love story is unique, and in traditional Indigenous Southern Plains culture, it begins with an original ballad performed...
SwRI investigating unusual substorm in Earth’s magnetotail using MMS data
SAN ANTONIO — May 14, 2024 —Southwest Research Institute is investigating an unusual event in the Earth’s magnetotail, the elongated portion of the planet’s magnetosphere...
Mislabelled shark meat rampant in Australian markets, study finds
Researchers at Macquarie University have found a significant portion of shark meat sold in Australian fish markets and takeaway shops is mislabelled, including several samples...
90% of Floridians believe climate change is happening
The latest edition of Florida Atlantic University’s “Florida Climate Resilience Survey,” found that 90% of Floridians believe that climate change is happening. In comparison, a...
Using artificial intelligence to speed up and improve the most computationally-intensive aspects of plasma physics in fusion
The intricate dance of atoms fusing and releasing energy has fascinated scientists for decades. Now, human ingenuity and artificial intelligence are coming together at the...
A bionanomachine for green chemistry
Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have for the first time precisely characterised the enzyme styrene oxide isomerase, which can be used to produce...
