(University of Alaska Fairbanks) A five-year, $9.3 million National Science Foundation grant will allow the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute to establish a new research observatory dedicated to exploring Earth's upper atmosphere and geospace environment.
Astronomers have found two close pairs of quasars in the distant Universe. Follow-up observations with Gemini North spectroscopically resolved one of the distant quasar pairs, after their discovery with the Hubble Space Telescope and Gaia spacecraft. These quasars are closer together than any pair of quasars found so far away, providing strong evidence for the existence of supermassive black hole pairs as well as crucial insight into galaxy mergers in the early Universe.
Getting a birth control implant used to cost some women hundreds of dollars. But a new study shows the impact of the Affordable Care Act's no-cost birth control provision - and the potential impact of a Supreme Court ruling that allows employers to opt out.
Stem rust is a devastating disease of cereal crops, including barley, one of the first domesticated crops in agriculture and the fourth most widely grown crop in the world. Barley is unique because it is one of only a few crops that can be cultivated in almost any climate and across a range of elevations, making it economically and nutritionally important.
Researchers are trying to understand differences in how PTSD affects warriors or soldiers from different cultures, focusing on Turkana (Kenya) warriors and American combat veterans.
Methane emissions from aquatic ecosystems are potentially a larger source of methane than direct anthropogenic methane sources, such as agriculture or fossil fuel combustion. Aquatic ecosystems and wetlands contribute at least as much as half of the total methane emissions budget.
Researchers have long been curious about the striking growth form of spinifex and now UNSW Sydney scientists say soil microbes are the answer.
The Associated Press has won two prestigious awards from the Overseas Press Club of America for an investigation exposing abuse in the lucrative palm oil industry and for reporting that held China accountable for its early mishandling of COVID-19 and human rights violations against the Uighurs.
One in three COVID-19 survivors received a neurological or psychiatric diagnosis within six months of infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, an observational study of more than 230,000 patient health records published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal estimates. The study looked at 14 neurological and mental health disorders [1].
Scientists at the UNC School of Medicine identified a molecule called microRNA-29 as a powerful controller of brain maturation in mammals. Deleting microRNA-29 in mice caused problems very similar to those seen in autism, epilepsy, and other neurodevelopmental conditions.The results, published in Cell Reports, illuminate an important process in the normal maturation of the brain and point to the possibility that disrupting this process could contribute to multiple human brain diseases.
Chicago needs a large dose of pension reform.
The Biden infrastructure bill is a Democratic wish list of wasteful spending.
New York’s progressive legislators want to make the nation’s heaviest tax burden heavier still.
(University of Huddersfield) An inspirational panel of experts came together via an online event to celebrate the launch of Professor Bryson's new book which makes the case for an inclusive form of socialist feminism that puts women with multiple disadvantages at its heart
(Harvard Medical School) Curing cancer has been the dream of countless doctors and researchers over the decades. Yet some types of cancer, whether because they affect relatively few people or lack influential advocates, receive less attention and funding than others.A recent gift to Harvard Medical School is boosting efforts to understand and combat these understudied malignancies.
(University of California - Irvine) The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases has awarded UCI a 5-year, $4.2 million grant to study sporadic inclusion body myositis (sIBM), which affects aging adults causing asymmetric muscle weakness and severe disability. The disease is currently untreatable and poorly understood.
(American Geriatrics Society) The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) celebrates Ellen Flaherty, PhD, APRN, AGSF, an Assistant Professor at the Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine and director of the Dartmouth Centers for Health & Aging who is the recipient of the 2020/2021 Edward Henderson Award for her trailblazing work on inter-professional teams.
(Rana Healthcare Solutions LLC) BioIVT Senior Scientist Raju Khatri, MS, PhD, DABT, will discuss his recently published research which shows how pregnancy-related hormones (PRH) are important regulators of hepatic cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzyme expression and function. Using a sandwich-cultured human hepatocyte model, Dr. Khatri's research team showed that exposure to PRH can significantly increase concentrations of CYP3A4 and other CYPs, resulting in a dose-dependent increase in nifedipine metabolism. Читать дальше...
(InSilico Medicine) Insilico to present the latest advances in chemistry AI at ACS Spring 2021
(University of Massachusetts Lowell) UMass Lowell researcher Archana Kamal has won two early career development awards totaling more than $1 million from the U.S. Air Force and the National Science Foundation (NSF) for her research in the emerging field of quantum information processing (QIP) with open quantum systems.
(Southwest Research Institute) NASA has selected Southwest Research Institute's 100 kg-class small satellite (SmallSat) platform to be listed in the Rapid Spacecraft Development Office (RSDO) IV catalog used by the U.S. government to rapidly contract for flight-proven spacecraft. The Southwest Space Platform-100 (SwSP-100) is now available through the $6 billion, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV contract.