An embarrassment of riches
Among Indigenous, rural non-industrial populations inhabiting the tropical forests of lowland Bolivia, researchers report, there appears to be an optimal balance between levels of food...
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Catalytic methane removal to mitigate its environmental effect
This review is led by Prof. Junwang Tang (Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London; and Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University). The review summarised...
Funding to Daniel Anderson’s lab will advance research on new delivery technology for RNA vaccines and therapies
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Sanofi will provide $25 million over five years to the lab of MIT Professor Daniel Anderson, to support the lab’s efforts to...
Two early-career researchers capture 2022 JCP Emerging Investigator Awards
MELVILLE, N.Y., April 11, 2023 – The Journal of Chemical Physics is pleased to announce Bingqing Cheng and Katrin Erath-Dulitz as the 2022 winners of...
Senior MCG student edits April edition of American Medical Association Journal of Ethics
AUGUSTA, Ga. (April 11, 2023) – A senior at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University is the guest editor for this month’s edition of...
Timely pandemic countermeasures reduce both health damage and economic loss
The COVID-19 pandemic has had, and continues to have, profound impacts on the world. In the early stages of the pandemic, many countries adopted stringent...
The roly-poly gold rush
WASHINGTON, April 11, 2023 – The woodlouse goes by many names: roly-poly, pill bug, potato bug, tomato bug, butchy boy, cheesy bob, and chiggy pig,...
Stopping storms from creating dangerous urban geysers
WASHINGTON, April 11, 2023 – During intense rainstorms, residents of urban areas rely on stormwater sewers to keep streets and homes from flooding. But in...
Understanding a community’s shared vision for public health is key to supporting change
Philadelphia, April 11, 2023 – The prevalence of obesity in rural communities goes beyond food choice and geography to include issues such as class, culture...
Family tree of ‘boring’ butterflies reveals they’re anything but
Walk a short distance through the Amazon Rainforest, and you might witness what look like dead leaves launch from the ground and fly off into...
Femtosecond lasers with GHz bursts in MHz burst (BiBurst) enhances ablation speed of silicon by a factor of 23
Scientists working on laser application at the RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics (RAP) have employed a new technique using GHz bursts of femtosecond laser pulses...
Correlate phonon modes with ion transport via isotope substitution
This study is led by Prof. Shou-Hang Bo (Global Institute of Future Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University) and Prof. Jun Cheng...
Tailings dams degrade the upstream variety and abundance of fish species
Streams are complex habitats that can be affected by changes further upstream or downstream. Even small dams and reservoirs can modify significant ecological processes, such...
Improving gene therapy with tiny bubbles
CLEVELAND—Beyond vaccines, mRNA offers immense potential to fight disease, but targeting the genetic material to specific diseased cells is challenging—requiring a new method. Credit: Case Western...
Merons and antimerons
Sliding and twisting of van der Waals layers can produce fascinating physical phenomena. In a recent publication in Nature Communications, Daniel Bennett, Eric Bousquet and...
