Getting adults on board with messy nature play
Climbing trees, making mud pies, or simply playing outside, parents and educators know that being in nature is an important part of every childhood. But...
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The device that can remotely and accurately monitor breathing: as tested on cane toads
Constant monitoring of vital health signs is needed in a variety of clinical environments such as intensive care units, for patients with critical health conditions,...
Disorder lends robustness to the embryonic development of a tiny shrimp
Consider the crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis, a tiny crustacean with some interesting attributes.Credit: Damian Kao Alvina G Lai Evangelia Stamataki Silvana Rosic Nikolaos Konstantinides Erin Jarvis...
Revolutionizing regenerative medicine: Unlocking the healing power of oral keratinocytes
Niigata, Japan—Scientists have made significant progress in understanding the signals involved in regulating oral keratinocyte cell motility and proliferative capacity, offering new insights into potential...
Lessons learned from first genetically-modified pig heart into human patient
B-roll video and interview with researcherCredit: University of Maryland School of Medicine B-roll video and interview with researcher BALTIMORE, June 29, 2023– A new study...
Transport, domestic activities and agriculture are the main contributors to air pollution related mortality in European cities
Air pollution is the largest environmental cause of death. Now, a study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by...
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire – and normal numbers of national park visitors
More Americans than ever are heeding the call of the outdoors – spending time recreating outside and enjoying national parks. Simultaneously, smoky skies are worsening...
Scientists edge toward scalable quantum simulations on a photonic chip
Scientists have made an important step toward developing computers advanced enough to simulate complex natural phenomena at the quantum level. While these types of simulations...
IceCube shows Milky Way galaxy is a neutrino desert
The Milky Way galaxy is an awe-inspiring feature of the night sky, dominating all wavelengths of light and viewable with the naked eye as a...
Our galaxy seen through a new lens: Neutrinos detected by IceCube
Our Milky Way galaxy is an awe-inspiring feature of the night sky, viewable with the naked eye as a horizon-to-horizon hazy band of stars. Now,...
First ‘ghost particle’ image of Milky Way galaxy captured by scientists
From visible starlight to radio waves, the Milky Way galaxy has long been observed through the various frequencies of electromagnetic radiation it emits. Scientists have...
Chip-based dispersion compensation for faster fibre internet
Fibre optics is now the fastest and most reliable technology to deliver internet connection. Data is transmitted through fast-travelling pulses of light that bounce off...
House cats’ noses may function like highly efficient chemical analysis equipment
A new computer simulation of domestic cats’ noses suggests that the convoluted nasal structures involved in their sense of smell function similarly to parallel coiled...
Virus-like transposons wage war on the species barrier
Scientists have known for decades that genes can be transferred from one species to another, both in animals and plants. However, the mechanism of how...
The first neutrino image of our galaxy
For the first time, researchers have produced an image of the Milky Way using neutrinos, which were observed with the IceCube telescope in the Antarctic...
