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Sign up for a full digest of all the best opinions of the week in our Voices Dispatches email Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter The rotating shoulders and extending elbows that allow humans to reach a high shelf or throw a ball may have first evolved as a natural braking system for …
Credit: Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (2023). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.3c03153 Plant-based alternatives such as tempeh and bean burgers provide protein-rich options for those who want to reduce their meat consumption. However, replicating meat’s flavors and aromas has proven challenging, with companies often relying on synthetic additives. A recent study in the Journal of Agricultural and …
Cars and homes taking in water at Volos on Tuesday. At least one person has died in eastern Greece after torrential rains hit the country, already ravaged for weeks by devastating wildfires, authorities said on Tuesday. However, officials said firefighters had brought under control the blaze burning for weeks in Dadia national park. The victim …
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Increasing levels of toxic, synthetic chemicals are being reported in drinking water and drinking water reservoirs in Europe and around the world. One of the most notorious groups of these synthetic chemicals are PFAS, which have been also referred to as “forever chemicals,” as they accumulate in natural environments and do …
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Socio-emotional development is a versatile skill that should be encouraged from early childhood, given that it facilitates learning and also professional and personal relationships. In the Brazilian and Latin American curriculum, however, this theme is incipient and still little applied in schools and early childhood education centers, a fact that adds …
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The challenges of motherhood often lead women to leave academia after their first child. In fact, studies in the United States suggest that about 50% of women scientists in the U.S. leave science after motherhood. To address this problem, a group of Spanish women scientists, who are themselves mothers, propose 10 …
Sign up for a full digest of all the best opinions of the week in our Voices Dispatches email Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter Scientists have found that moderate and regular internet usage might appear to have cognitive benefits for older individuals. The study, published in the August edition of the Journal …
Researchers from Japan propose an in-liquid plasma-treated titanium dioxide catalyst support decorated with silver nanoparticles as an alternative to carbon catalyst for effective carbon dioxide reduction into valuable resources. Credit: Chiaki Terashima from TUS, Japan The conversion of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas, to useful resources such as carbon monoxide, formic acid, and …
Credit: Mfield, Matthew Field, www.photography.mattfield.com, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons It’s no secret to most San Diegans that leopard sharks come each summer to warm their pregnant bellies on the sand at La Jolla Shores. But much still remains unknown about these animals. Andrew Nosal, an associate professor of biology at Point Loma …
Primary factors elevating the risk of levee failures and flooding among historically underserved and socially vulnerable communities. Credit: Earth’s Future (2023). DOI: 10.1029/2023EF003619 In the United States, tens of millions of people live behind levees, but historically disadvantaged groups are more likely to live behind subpar levees and have fewer resources to maintain critical levee …