Many emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, especially zoonotic diseases such as ebola or new coronaviruses, emerge as the result of intensified human activities such as...
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...
SYDNEY, Dec. 5, 2023 – Modern living may be contributing to an epidemic of nearsighted vision and related blindness. By 2050, it is estimated that...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
