Lonni Besançon is an assistant professor at the Division of Media and Information Technology at Linköping University. Credit: Thor Balkhed Lonni Besançon devotes evenings and weekends to rarely appreciated sanitation work. By examining scientific articles after they are published and exposing shortcomings, he has made himself an enemy of both researchers and publishers. It has … Read more
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Between 1999 and 2017, every state has passed a law addressing bullying, and 90% of those states amended or updated their laws, according to research that analyzes the most comprehensive legal data on anti-bullying laws to date. The data were created by researchers from the Center for Public Health Law Research … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Abercrombie & Fitch. Balenciaga. Starbucks. In recent years, these brands and many others have faced extreme public backlash due to insensitive comments from executives, changes to loyalty programs, controversial advertising decisions, and more. In today’s hyperconnected world, negative information about brands can quickly snowball online, resulting in widespread calls for boycotts … Read more
The mid-2030s phase out agreed by G7 ministers has been described as ‘too late’ by environmentalists. G7 ministers agreed a timeframe Tuesday for phasing out coal-fired power plants, setting as a goal the mid-2030s, in a move hailed as significant by some environmentalists but slammed as “too late” by others. The Group of Seven two-day … Read more
Schematic scenario for flood basalt eruptions at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary. Magma intruded into shales, coal beds, and organic-rich sediments, releasing vast amounts of carbon dioxide and other pollutants, including Hg. Middle: examples of normal and malformed spores. The picture on the right: Phlebopteris. The fern fossil is from a quarry in Southern Germany (Pechgraben) from … Read more
Geopotential height anomalies at 500 hPa associated with warm blobs. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47032-x The past 10 years have seen a series of “warm blobs” in the northeast Pacific Ocean. These marine heat waves do widespread damage to ecosystems and marine life in the area, but the mechanisms by which they develop and … Read more
Researchers from the University of Illinois have proven that increases in mesophyll conductance can be engineered and that it leads to increases in photosynthesis. These results were shown in a model crop (tobacco) field trial. The modification will be tested in the food crop soybean in the coming years. Credit: RIPE project It is possible … Read more
Virologist Zhang Yongzhen speaks at a coffeeshop in Shanghai, China on Dec. 13, 2020. Zhang, the first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China was staging a sit-in protest after authorities locked him out of his lab. Zhang wrote in an online post on Monday, April 29, 2024, that he and … Read more
The image illustrate the combined action of two molecules cooperating to inhibit thrombin. The antidote dissociates the two molecules, preventing the cooperativity. The association and dissociation of the two molecules is controlled by hybridization of oligonucleotides. Credit: Millicent Dockerill / Nicolas Winssinger Anticoagulant treatments are crucial for managing many conditions, such as heart disease, stroke … Read more
A mechanical analysis of the distinctive canines of California’s saber-toothed cat (Smilodon fatalis) suggests that the baby tooth that preceded each saber stayed in place for years to stabilize the growing permanent saber tooth, perhaps allowing adolescents to learn how to hunt without breaking them. Credit: Massimo Molinero California’s state fossil—are familiar to anyone who … Read more
