In a rare occurrence, UT Austin professors each snag the ‘Nobel Prizes’ of their fields in the same year
The University of Texas at Austin is the first university to claim winners of the top prizes in computing and mathematics in the same year....
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Illegal trade and poor regulation threaten pangolins in China
Pangolins, unique scale-covered mammals, are drastically declining in numbers across Asia and Africa, largely due to illegal trade. Part of the trade, both legal and...
Rising temperatures alter ‘missing link’ of microbial processes, putting northern peatlands at risk
If you’re an avid gardener, you may have considered peat moss — decomposed Sphagnum moss that helps retain moisture in soil — to enhance your home soil...
Prestigious Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in Israel announces 2023 Laureates
Jerusalem, April 3, 2023 – The Blavatnik Family Foundation, the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the New York Academy of Sciences, announced today...
Researchers reviewed recent progress of organic room-temperature phosphorescent materials towards application
Organic materials with room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) emission have attracted extensive attention due to extraordinary properties including long lifetime, large Stokes shift, stimuli-responsiveness, and so on,...
Fast light pulse triggers charge transfer into water
In certain molecules, the so-called photoacids, a proton can be released locally by excitation with light. There is a sudden change in the pH value...
Better air due to slurry acidification
Ammonia released into the environment is a major problem. Agriculture is considered the most prolific polluter – it is responsible for 95 percent of these...
Double-slit experiment that proved the wave nature of light explored in time
Imperial physicists have recreated the famous double-slit experiment, which showed light behaving as particles and a wave, in time rather than space.Credit: Thomas Angus, Imperial...
Wt1 gene to be a key factor in the endothelial cell during the formation of new coronary vessels
How is the mammals’ heart formed? What role do endothelial cells play? Do the same pathways and genes involved in the formation of the embryonic...
More U.S. prostate cancer patients choosing active surveillance
The number of prostate cancer patients in the U.S. choosing active surveillance over surgery or radiation has rapidly increased since 2010, rising from 16% to...
Paola Arlotta receives 2023 Gutenberg Research Award
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) will be honoring biologist Professor Paola Arlotta of Harvard University by presenting her with the 2023 Gutenberg Research Award, the...
LSU Health New Orleans LA Tumor Registry releases 6th Census Tract Cancer Incidence Report
New Orleans, LA -- LSU Health New Orleans Louisiana Tumor Registry (LTR) has published the sixth report of statewide cancer incidence rates by census...
6 out of 10 children whose parents restrict smoking to the porch or the yard – are at risk for being harmed by tobacco smoke
Unique Israeli Study– Nicotine in Children’s Hair Credit: Debbi Cooper Unique Israeli Study– Nicotine in Children’s Hair Worrisome findings: “Family smoking” – Many parents mistakenly...
Yasin Dagdas elected to the OeAW’s Young Academy
Yasin Dagdas, group leader at the Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), is a newly elected...
Electrode cuff developed at WVU improves testing of medical treatments that use electricity to heal
West Virginia University engineers are taking a major step into “bioelectronic medicine,” a cutting-edge approach that uses electric current as a treatment for pain and disease,...
