Turtles and crocodiles with unique characteristics are more likely to go extinct
New research led by the University of Oxford has revealed that the most endangered turtle and crocodile species are those that are most unique. Their...
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Pulsing ultrasound waves could someday remove microplastics from waterways
INDIANAPOLIS, March 28, 2023 — Colorful particles of plastic drift along under the surface of most waterways, from headwater streams to the Arctic Ocean. These...
A final present from birds killed in window collisions: poop that reveals their microbiomes
Every year, millions of birds crash into windows in cities along their migratory path. For decades, scientists and volunteers have risen at dawn in spring...
Implementation of school-based wellbeing programs benefits from multiple voices
URBANA, Ill. – Health and wellbeing education can be an important addition to a school curriculum. But for these programs to be effective, they must...
Fast and low-cost computational method can monitor spread of antibiotic resistance over time
Growing resistance to antibiotics and other antimicrobial treatments is a serious global healthcare challenge. A new study in Antibiotics demonstrates a method for tracking the...
McMaster researchers trial primary care program for older adults
Att. editors: Under embargo by the journal Annals of Family Medicine until Monday, March 27 at 5 p.m. easternCredit: McMaster University Department of Family Medicine...
JNM explores potential applications for ChatGPT in nuclear medicine and molecular imaging
Reston, VA—A new article in The Journal of Nuclear Medicine explores the potential for using ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot, in the field of nuclear medicine and...
Rare beetle, rediscovered after 55 years, named in honor of Jerry Brown
Berkeley — When University of California, Berkeley, entomologist Kipling Will first heard that former Gov. Jerry Brown was hosting field scientists on his Colusa County...
Study finds neighborhood apps increase perceptions of crime rates
How often do you glance at your neighborhood app, like Nextdoor or others, and learn about some crime in your area? Surely, it was not...
Aging | Parsing chronological and biological age effects on vaccine responses
“Ultimately, while both chronological and biological age appear to be important determinants of vaccine-preventable outcomes in older adults, the underlying context and mechanisms of their...
Novel Click chemistry technology for ultrafast analysis of intracellular lipids
Professor Itaru Hamachi, Lecturer Tomonori Tamura, and Assistant Professor Masaki Tsuchiya of Kyoto University have developed a new technology called O-ClickFC (Organelle-selective click labeling with...
Storing information with spins: Creating new structured spin states with spatially structured polarized light
Light is composed of electric and magnetic fields that oscillate perpendicular to each other. When these oscillations are restricted, say, along a plane, it results...
In the tropics, woody vines make lightning more deadly for forests
Many tropical forests are experiencing increases in lightning and lianas, thanks in part to global change. This one-two punch is likely causing an increase in...
James Chappell wins NSF CAREER Award
HOUSTON – (March 27, 2023) – Rice University bioscientist and synthetic biologist James Chappell has won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to develop RNA...
Chicago pollution varies by neighborhood
EVANSTON, Ill. — If you live along one of the major interstate highways running through Chicago or directly next to Lake Michigan, you are regularly exposed...
