10-year countdown to sea-ice-free Arctic
If the world keeps increasing greenhouse gas emissions at its current speed, all sea ice in the Arctic will disappear in the 2030s, an event...
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Previously overlooked algae toxin widespread in southern Indian River Lagoon
Spanning about one-third of Florida’s East coast, the Indian River Lagoon has faced frequent harmful algal blooms in recent years. Among them, Pseudo-nitzschia spp., algae...
Winners of World Cultural Council awards announced – Award Ceremony to be held at the University of Helsinki, Finland on November 2023
The University of Helsinki will host the 38th Annual World Cultural Council (WCC) Award Ceremony on Friday 3rd November 2023. At the event, the “Albert Einstein” World Award...
New tracking device to keep better tabs on wolves
The wolf’s comeback in Europe has preoccupied people all across the continent over the last years. Where is it? What is its range? What does...
Rising rates of benzodiazepine toxicity among young people spark concern
Toronto, ON, June 15, 2023 – The rate of hospital encounters for benzodiazepine-related toxicity rose by 67 per cent for young adults (aged 19 to...
A marine mystery: Discovering the link between climate change and sea sponge loss
Sea sponges are essential to marine ecosystems. They play critical roles in the ocean, as they provide shelter and food to a plethora of marine...
Access to financial services linked to lower COVID mortality rates
New research shows that some of the best tools to decrease COVID-19 mortality rates weren’t found in the ER, but rather at the bank.Credit: Lehigh...
A plant-based, oral delivery of insulin regulates blood sugar levels similar to natural insulin
Insulin production has, for the last 50 or so years, come with some risks to the patient. Even so, the medication is lifesaving for the...
The Viking disease can be due to gene variants inherited from Neanderthals
Many men in northern Europe over the age of 60 suffer from the so-called Viking disease, which means that the fingers lock in a bent...
New technique in error-prone quantum computing makes classical computers sweat
Despite steady improvements in quantum computers, they're still noisy and error prone, which leads to questionable or wrong answers. Scientists predict that they won't truly...
Hybrid AI-powered computer vision combines physics and big data
Researchers from UCLA and the United States Army Research Laboratory have laid out a new approach to enhance artificial intelligence-powered computer vision technologies by adding...
Mapping cities in motion
There are many ways to map New York City, including street maps of Manhattan’s famous grid, the brightly colored subway map, and souvenir maps of...
Elimination of type of bacteria suggests treatment for endometriosis
A research group from the Graduate School of Medicine and iGCORE at Nagoya University in Japan, has discovered that using an antibiotic to target Fusobacterium...
Sun’s coldest region stores secret to heating million-degree corona, study finds
Nearly five thousand kilometers above the Sun’s surface lies a century-old question for solar physicists — how are temperatures in the star’s upper atmosphere, or...
Preserving forests to protect deep soil from warming
A recent study led by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of Zurich has revealed that the organic compounds proposed...
