What role did fear play in Europe’s population growth?
– Since the end of the last Ice Age, growth of human population was far from uniform, marked instead by periods of rapid expansion followed by...
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U of A College of Nursing receives $1.6M grant to support Indigenous students
Indigenous students pursuing nursing careers at the University of Arizona College of Nursing will benefit from additional financial support thanks to a $1.6 million grant from the...
Moths may use disco gene to regulate day/night cycles
How does one species become two? If you’re a biologist, that’s a loaded question. The consensus is that, in most cases, the process of speciation...
Mizzou researchers explore solutions to help reduce nurse burnout
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Even before the coronavirus pandemic, high rates of burnout and staffing shortages plagued the nursing industry, primarily because of the stressful demands...
Defining chronic pain for high-performance athletes with disabilities
With the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games just around the corner, the extensive training and the sacrifices athletes make to compete at the games take centre...
Making MRI more globally accessible: how metamaterials offer affordable, high-impact solutions
By allowing clinicians to look noninvasively inside the human body, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become a mainstay of injury and disease detection and treatment...
Prenatal smoking risks academic achievement of unborn babies
Smoking harms almost every part of your body. But if you smoke when pregnant, the toxic chemicals in tobacco will also harm your unborn baby,...
Quantum researchers publish ‘exciting’ particle prediction
Bruno Uchoa, a professor of condensed matter physics, and Hong-yi Xie, a postdoctoral fellow in condensed matter physics at the University of Oklahoma, have published...
Discovery gives answers to parents of children with rare disease
Shortly after Kelly Cervantes’ daughter Adelaide was born, she started having terrible seizures. Doctors were unable to give her a solution, or even a cause....
Shaping the future of extracellular vesicles: Exploring the critical roles of microbiota and mitochondria in health and therapeutics at the first world conference on targeting extracellular vesicles
The World Mitochondria Society (WMS) and the International Society of Microbiota (ISM) are proud to announce the First World Conference on Targeting Extracellular Vesicles (EVs),...
Work toward a cleaner way to purify critical metals
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Rare-earth elements are everywhere in modern life, found in everything from the smart device you’re reading this on to the LED lightbulbs...
The UJI and the company Semicrol launch a platform for the exchange of experimental samples that will reduce the number of animals for scientific purposes
The Universitat Jaume I of Castelló and the company Semicrol, S.L. are developing a research project with the aim of creating an innovative platform to...
New technology ‘lights up’ bacteria in wounds for better infection prevention
LOS ANGELES — Over 6.5 million Americans experience chronic wounds — wounds that do not heal after a few months. Almost all such wounds contain...
Breakthrough in the process for mass fabricating an exotic quasi-one-dimensional material
Researchers have fabricated a quasi-one-dimensional van der Waals zirconium telluride thin film, which is a form of a substance that has long promised advances in...
USTC realizes dispersion-selective band engineering in artificial kagome superlattice
A research team led by Prof. ZENG Changgan from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS),...
