A male orangutan eating non-fruit vegetation instead of the fruit orangutans prefer on the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. Credit: Kristana Parinters Makur/Tuanan Orangutan Research Project
Highlights Need to Protect Orangutan Habitat
Wild orangutans are...
A baby bamboo shark born via artificial insemination. Credit: Photo by Jay Harvey, Aquarium of the Pacific
It’s a tough time to be a shark. Pollution, industrialized fishing, and climate change threaten marine life, and...
An illustration depicting one of NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft. Both Voyagers have entered interstellar space, or the space outside our Sun’s heliosphere. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
As NASA’s Voyager 1 Surveys Interstellar Space, Its Density Measurements Are...
Facial reconstruction of individual identified through DNA analysis as John Gregory, HMS Erebus. Credit: Diana Trepkov/ University of Waterloo
With a living descendant’s DNA sample, a team of researchers have identified the remains of John...
The MasSpec Pen can authenticate the type and purity of meat samples in as little as 15 seconds. Credit: Adapted from Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.0c07830
Meat and fish fraud are...
Research, from Com-COV study comparing mixed dosing schedules of Pfizer / Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines, shows increase in the frequency of mild-moderate symptoms in those receiving either mixed dosing schedule
Adverse reactions were short-lived, with no other...
Females and those with lower body weight have better results.
New research presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (held online, 10-13 May) shows that treatment with the drug semaglutide reduces body weight in...
There is no long-term benefit to surgically placing tympanostomy tubes in a young child’s ears to reduce the rate of recurrent ear infections during the ensuing two years compared with giving oral antibiotics to...
Covid-19 patients who receive oxygen therapy or experience fever show reduced gray matter volume in the frontal-temporal network of the brain, according to a new study led by researchers at Georgia State University and...
Genetic Risk of Heart Disease May Be Due to Low Omega 3-Linked Biomarker Found in Fish Oils
People who are genetically more likely to suffer from cardiovascular diseases may benefit from boosting a biomarker found...
Tracking Carbon From the Ocean Surface to the Dark "Twilight Zone"
Different phytoplankton communities bloom around the Canadian Maritime Provinces and across the northwestern Atlantic Ocean. Credit: NASA/Aqua/MODIS composite collected on March 22, 2021
A seaward...
An Uncrackable Combination: Invisible Ink and Artificial Intelligence
Coded messages in invisible ink sound like something only found in espionage books, but in real life, they can have important security purposes. Yet, they can be...
Robotic arm equipped with a hairbrush helps with brushing tasks and could be an asset in assistive-care settings.
A robotic arm setup is equipped with a sensorized soft brush and aided by a camera...
2018 eruption of Kīlauea Volcano in Hawai’i provided scientists with an unprecedented opportunity to identify new factors that could help forecast the hazard potential of future eruptions.
Lava fountaining from the most productive eruptive fissure,...
Optical Fiber Could Boost Power of Superconducting Quantum Computers
NIST physicists measured and controlled a superconducting quantum bit (qubit) using light-conducting fiber (indicated by white arrow) instead of metal electrical cables like the 14 shown...
Surpassed only by advanced age and organ transplant as a risk factor, large study shows
Physical inactivity is linked to more severe COVID-19 infection and a heightened risk of dying from the disease, finds a...
Female putty-mosed monkey. Credit: C. Kolopp/WCS
Female putty-nosed monkeys use calls just to recruit males when certain predators are detectedResults suggest that different “dialects” exist among different populations of monkeys
Researchers with the Wildlife Conservation Society’s...
NASA’s newest Mars rover is beginning to study the floor of an ancient crater that once held a lake.
Mastcam-Z Views ‘Santa Cruz’ on Mars: NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its dual-camera Mastcam-Z imager to...
Magnetoelectric Chips to Power a New Generation of More Efficient Computing Devices
Harnessing the Hum of Fluorescent Lights for More Efficient Computing
The property that makes fluorescent lights buzz could power a new generation of more...
Lancaster scientists have demonstrated that other physicists’ recent “discovery” of the field effect in superconducting metals is nothing but hot electrons after all.
A team of scientists in the Lancaster Physics Department has found new...
Pink Drinks Can Help You Run Faster and Further Compared to Clear Drinks
A new study led by the Center for Nutraceuticals in the University of Westminster shows that pink drinks can help to make...
James Webb Telescope's Golden Mirror Wings Open for the Last Time on Earth
For the last time while it is on Earth, the world’s largest and most powerful space science telescope opened its iconic primary...
Breaking Heisenberg: Evading the Uncertainty Principle in Quantum Physics
New technique gets around 100-year-old rule of quantum physics for the first time.
The uncertainty principle, first introduced by Werner Heisenberg in the late 1920’s, is a...