Save Our Seas Foundation announces a record 61 grants for 2021
The Save our Seas Foundation is celebrating an overwhelming number of applications and awards. This heralds a hopeful new cohort of ocean conservationists, young scientists...
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Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists announce 2021 laureates
Winners of America's largest unrestricted scientific prize for promising young researchers include a neuroscientist from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, an inorganic chemist from...
Tropical fly study shows that a mother’s age and diet influences offspring health
Credit: Daniel Hargrove The female tsetse fly, which gives birth to adult-sized live young, produce weaker offspring as they get older, and when they feed...
Main attraction: Scientists create world’s thinnest magnet
A one-atom thin 2D magnet could advance new applications in computing and electronicsCredit: Berkeley Lab The development of an ultrathin magnet that operates at room...
Copper transporter potential new treatment target for cardiovascular disease
Credit: Michael Holahan, Augusta University An internal transporter that enables us to use the copper we consume in foods like shellfish and nuts to enable...
Supermassive black holes put a brake on stellar births
Credit: NASA, ESA, K. Kuntz (JHU), F. Bresolin (University of Hawaii), J. Trauger (Jet Propulsion Lab), J. Mould (NOAO), Y.-H. Chu (University of Illinois, Urbana),...
USC study shows male-female differences in immune cell function
Credit: Ryan Lu A new USC study of a common, yet poorly understood type of white blood cell reveals the immune cell's response to pathogens...
CNIO researchers clarify the role of the two isoforms of KRAS, the most common oncogene in humans
These findings suggest that for therapies to be effective, they must be targeted at both gene productsCredit: CNIO KRAS was one of the first oncogenes...
Of lives and life years: 1918 influenza vs COVID-19
Next time, vaccination may be too little, too lateCredit: CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases, January 2006 From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic there have been...
Epicentre of major Amazon droughts and fires saw 2.5 billion trees and vines killed
A major drought and forest fires in the Amazon rainforest killed billions of trees and plants and turned one of the world's largest carbon sinks...
How cells control mitochondria
Credit: Pablo Sánchez-MartÃn/University of Freiburg Errors in the metabolic processes of mitochondria are responsible for a variety of diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. Scientists...
Seismic surveys have no significant impact on commercially valuable fish in NW Australia
Credit: Copyright AIMS, image credit Nick Thake New research has found marine seismic surveys used in oil and gas exploration are not impacting the abundance...
The climate impact of wild pigs greater than a million cars
Credit: The University of Queensland By uprooting carbon trapped in soil, wild pigs are releasing around 4.9 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide annually across...
RAS launches new multi-disciplinary journal
Credit: J. Tennyson The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is pleased to announce the launch of its first new journal in almost 100 years. Tentatively titled...
Team awarded $2M by NSF to teach virtual explorers about permafrost, Arctic climate change
Credit: Victor O. Leshyk, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University Scientists at Northern Arizona University, Arizona State University, the Arizona Geological Survey...
