Pornography fuels the global sex trade by driving demand into the mainstream of society. And since porn consumers do not and cannot distinguish between trafficked individuals and porn performers, they can often reinforce and drive the demand...
Credit: NASA/Jesse Kirsch/courtesy of Tracy Schohr
Today, human sources are responsible for 60% of global methane emissions, coming primarily from the burning of fossil fuels, decomposition in landfills, and the agriculture sector. Nearly a quarter...
An alum and several researchers at UCF have used nanotechnology to develop the cleaning agent, which protects against seven viruses for up to seven days.
UCF researchers have developed a nanoparticle-based disinfectant that can continuously...
Postdoctoral researcher Adriane Lam and Assistant Professor Molly Patterson making sense of new geochemical data obtained from planktic foraminifera. Credit: Binghamton University
Ocean currents embody motion, snaking their way from the tropics to the poles...
Both male and female White-necked Jacobins fan their tails during courtship or aggressive interactions. Because this bird also has its wings partially raised it’s likely an aggressive stance. Credit: Photo by Brian Sullivan/Macaulay Library...
Fiery river in Kamchatka, Russia.
Extensive chains of volcanoes have been responsible for both emitting and then removing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), stabilizing temperatures at Earth’s surface.
An international research team explored the combined impact of...
Study used modern high resolution analytics to reveal enormous metabolic complexity of beer.
The tradition of beer brewing dates back to at least 7000 BCE and maybe even to the invention of agriculture, considering that...
A new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder reveals the complex history behind one of the Grand Canyon’s most well-known geologic features: A mysterious and missing gap of time in the canyon’s...
Image of the solar atmosphere showing a coronal mass ejection. Credit: NASA/SDO
In 1998, the journal Nature published a seminal letter concluding that the mysterious polarization signal that had been recently discovered in the light...
In Yosemite’s Illilouette Creek basin, a stand of young Sierra lodgepole pine grow in a forest clearing that was created by wildfire 20 years prior. Mt. Starr King appears in the background. Credit: UC...
Rising seas will exacerbate problems that coastal communities are already dealing with, including high-tide, or “nuisance,” floods. Inundated roadways like this one in Virginia are among the consequences of such floods. Credit: Aileen Devlin,...
Findings independent of age, sex, general health and lifestyle.
Widespread pain is linked to a heightened risk of all types of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, and stroke, finds research published online in the journal Regional Anesthesia...
Support for mandates has increased across partisan and demographic subgroups.
As infections from the delta variant surge, the percentage of Americans who support vaccine mandates has risen to 64% from 58% in April.
According to the...
Ionospheric anomalies observed on Sept. 15, 2019, over North America. Anomalies are shown for TEC (total electron content) and expressed as percentage compared to the average values for this season. A 50-80 percent increase...
The species of turtle involved in the study is Apalone spinifera, a species of freshwater turtles native to North America. But the researchers say their findings shed light on the evolutionary role of sex...
Life reconstruction of Heterodontosaurus vocalizing on a cool Jurassic morning. Credit: Viktor Radermacher
Using an exceptionally preserved fossil from South Africa, a particle accelerator, and high-powered x-rays, an international team including a University of Minnesota...
Histological staining of a lung adenocarcinoma, which is made of tumor cells as well as cells of the immune microenvironment including tumor-associated neutrophils. Credit: Caroline Contat (EPFL)
Cancers are not only made of tumor cells....
A rainforest in Malaysia. Credit: Wikimedia Common
A new index shows that the world’s rainforests are responding differently to threats like a warming climate and deforestation.
Scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and...
Male and female Polyommatus icarus mating. Credit: Stephanie A. Rivest
This summer, if you see a butterfly with wings that are blue on top with orange spots underneath, you may have crossed paths with a...
Vitamin E supplements, as well as the antioxidants CoQ10 and GSH, reversed heart damage in fruit flies caused by a tumor.
Study Links Free Radicals to Heart Damage Caused by Cancer
In fruit flies, antioxidants reverse...
20 years since 9/11: Statement by the High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell
Brussels, 10/09/2021
On September 11 2001, the deadliest attack in US history killed nearly 3,000 people and injured more than 6,000 when hijacked passenger flights...
Suicide prevention must be prioritized after 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Americas office of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned ahead of World Suicide Prevention Day, commemorated annually on 10 September.
The Actor Who Portrays Jesus in ‘The Chosen’ is Aware of the Honor and Responsibility He Now Bears
Jonathan Roumie, a devout Roman Catholic, tells the Irish Times he was inspired in his portrayal of Jesus in the television series The...