Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are serious mental illnesses that affect both males and females, but research in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica indicates that sex may influence the…
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Major banks neglect energy transition risks from mining as demand booms
Banks and investors funding the extraction of raw materials that are needed for the clean energy transition are failing to address the social and environmental risks of mining, an analysis…
Alison K Brody – Functional Ecologists
In this blog post, we hear from Associate Editor Alison Brody, Emeritus Professor of Biology at the University of Vermont. Walking along a trail at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in…
Dad’s childhood passive smoking may confer lifelong poor lung health onto his kids
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A father’s exposure to passive smoking as a child may impair the lifelong lung function of his children, putting them at risk of COPD—a risk that…
Metal organic frameworks enable a key step toward greener lighting and display technologies
Microscopy images. TEM images provide evidence of the core-shell morphology in the synthesized MOF-on-MOF structures. a TEM images of MOF-on-MOF-BS reveals a well-defined core-shell architecture, highlighting the successful assembly of…
How multilingual AI often reinforces bias
Credit: AI-generated image Johns Hopkins computer scientists have discovered that artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT are creating a digital language divide, amplifying the dominance of English and other commonly spoken…
Evidence indicates that early humans braved Britain’s Ice Age
Archaeologists from the University of Cambridge have uncovered evidence that early humans not only lived in Britain more than 700,000 years ago, but braved Britain’s Ice Age 440,000 years ago.…
Rare ceramic discovery from time of the Castilian conquest
Archaeologists have unearthed a rare intact vessel from the time of the Castilian conquest during excavations in Tijarafe, located in the northwest of La Palma. La Palma is the most…
Chronic Stress Sends Immune Cells to Brain, Driving Depression
Summary: A new study shows that chronic stress causes immune cells called neutrophils to leave bone marrow in the skull and collect in the brain’s protective membranes, where they contribute…
Quantum researchers observe real-time switching of magnet in heart of single atom
Artist impression, based on actual measurement data, of the nuclear spin of an atom flipping between distinct quantum states. The flipping was observed as a fluctuation in the electrical current…
