In this blog post, Samantha Bock, a post-doctoral researcher, discusses her study “Differential early-life survival underlies the adaptive significance of temperature-dependent sex determination in a long-lived reptile“, which has been…
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Fish fed to farmed salmon should be part of our diet, too, study suggests
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The public is being encouraged to eat more wild fish, such as mackerel, anchovies and herring, which are often used within farmed salmon feeds. These oily…
AI ethics are ignoring children, say researchers
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers from the Oxford Martin Programme on Ethical Web and Data Architectures (EWADA), University of Oxford, have called for a more considered approach when embedding ethical…
Swallowable sensors could pinpoint gut movement problems for patients
A close-up picture of the capsule. Credit: Gerard Cummins, University of Birmingham. Scientists have developed an ingestible capsule dotted with sensors that can detect pressure in a patient’s guts and…
2,000-year old bronze wares found in Shanxi Province
Archaeologists have uncovered 2,000-year old bronze wares during excavations of the Taosi North Cemetery in Shanxi Province. In a press statement by the Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, the cemetery…
Twice the quality with streamlined processes
Solid electrolyte powder (left) produced by KERI’s wet-synthesis process and a prototype of an all-solid-state battery using it. Credit: Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI) has reached…
Unlocking Potential: A Short Course Boosts Grit and Self-Belief
Summary: A novel method offers a promising approach to enhancing grit and self-belief. Through a pilot study involving 38 Norwegian students, this method, encapsulated in a 35-40 minute online course…
Associations of remnant cholesterol with cardiovascular and cancer mortality in the ChinaHEART cohort
Researchers used restricted cubic splines with three predefined knots in competing risk analysis models to evaluate the non-linearity association of remnant cholesterol on a continuous scale and the risk of…
Astrophysicist’s research could provide a hint in the search for dark matter
Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Coe (NASA JPL/Caltech and STScI) Dark matter is one of science’s greatest mysteries. It doesn’t absorb, reflect or emit light, so we can’t see it.…
