Despite export bans global seahorse trade continues
National legislation as well as bans under the international CITES agreement not slowing the trade in seahorse productsCredit: ©Amanda Vincent, Project Seahorse Many countries are...
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More women are training to be plastic surgeons, but racial/ethnic representation still lags behind
February 28, 2019 - While the proportion of women entering plastic surgery residency programs has increased in recent years, numbers of Black and Hispanic trainees...
Natural climate solutions are not enough
Forests, Carbon Sinks, Cannot Make Up for Delays in Decarbonizing the Economy WASHINGTON--To stabilize the Earth's climate for people and ecosystems, it is imperative to...
New study uses big data to analyze the international food trade
'Food inequality, injustice and rights' As the world population swells, the inequitable distribution of food around the globe is prompting profound moral questions. Is the...
In singing mice, scientists find clue to our own rapid conversations
Credit: Bret Pasch Studying the songs of mice from the cloud forests of Costa Rica, researchers from New York University School of Medicine and The...
NASA finds a hint of an eye in Tropical Cyclone Pola
Credit: NASA/NRL Visible imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite revealed the hint of an eye developing in the center of Tropical Cyclone Pola. Warnings in the...
New lipid shape atlas holds key to early disease detection
Ion mobility-mass spectrometry allowed for a closer examinationCredit: The McLean Group Every bit of information about a person's health - their exposure to chemicals, their...
Global warming leads professor to study impact of freezing temperatures on naval vessel
Credit: The University of Akron Maritime regulations and ship architecture have improved quite a bit since that freezing, deadly night in April 1912 when the...
PE, PP and PS: The most abundant type of microplastics in Mediterranean coastal waters
Effects of the plastic civilizationCredit: GRC Marine Geosciences - University of Barcelona Polyethylene, polypropylene and polystyrene are the most abundant microplastics in the Mediterranean coastal...
UMMS scientists develop technology to give night vision to mammals
WORCESTER--Scientists at UMass Medical School have developed technology to give night vision to mammals with a simple injection that contains nanoantennae, allowing the animals to...
2015-2016 El Niño triggered disease outbreaks across globe
The 2015-2016 El Niño event brought weather conditions that triggered regional disease outbreaks throughout the world, according to a new NASA study that is the...
ETRI develops thermoelectric device that generates electricity using human body heat
Researchers in South Korea have developed a thermoelectric module that can generate electricity using human body temperature, and power wearable devices.Credit: The Electronics and Telecommunications...
Engineer to develop drug-filled gel to heart damage
The material should also help preserve the heart's structural support networkCredit: Washington University in St. Louis After a heart attack, the cells in the heart...
Wutip now a depression, spotted on NASA-NOAA satellite imagery
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Once a super typhoon, Tropical Cyclone Wutip weakened to a depression on February 28....
Mobile bedside bioprinter can heal wounds
Credit: WFIRM video WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., - Feb. 28, 2019 - Imagine a day when a bioprinter filled with a patient's own cells can be wheeled...
