The history of using essential oils and their aromas to improve health and well-being dates back thousands of years. Like today, patients would inhale or topically apply these oils, which…
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Some African birds follow nomadic ants to their next meal
COIMBATORE, India — To better understand Equatorial Guinea’s tropical birds, ornithologists Luke Powell and Patricia Rodrigues scan the ground rather than the trees. They are searching for nests of driver…
New antibiotics on the way, but not quickly enough
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A report by University of Queensland researchers has warned a global crisis of antibiotic resistance is inevitable, despite promising developments in new antibiotics. The Center for…
Push to phase out Amazon oil and gas builds ahead of Cop28
An upcoming summit on protecting the Amazon has become the focus of a Indigenous and civil society-led campaign to set up an exclusion zone for fossil fuels South American nations…
Pressure grows on governments and banks to stop supporting Amazon oil and gas
An upcoming summit on protecting the Amazon has become the focus of a Indigenous and civil society-led campaign to set up an exclusion zone for fossil fuels South American nations…
Study proposes new bioinformatic approach to design better vaccines
Credit: National Cancer Institute A new paper in Biology Methods & Protocols, published by Oxford University Press, shows it may be possible to design vaccines that will induce a stronger…
Future Ultra-Precise Timing Links to Geosynchronous Satellites
Between mountains in Hawai‘i, innovative scientists show precision timing at the quantum limit. Last year, scientists drove up Mauna Loa volcano on Hawai‘i, aimed a laser at a reflector positioned…
Musk Rolls Dice With Drastic Rebranding of Twitter
In a drastic rebranding move, Elon Musk scrapped the perky blue bird that symbolized Twitter for more than a decade and replaced it with an enigmatic X. The post Musk…
A new dataset of Arctic images will spur artificial intelligence research
The U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy has set off on a three-month science mission in the Arctic. As part of this mission, a new infrared imaging system will collect a…
‘Quantum avalanche’ explains how nonconductors turn into conductors
UB physics professor Jong Han is the lead author on a new study that helps solve a longstanding physics mystery on how insulators transition into metals via an electric field,…
