Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Lockdown drills, practiced to help prepare children for shooting incidents at school, make those who have been exposed to violence feel safer, a new study of thousands of students in the US indicates. The finding, reported in a paper published in the Journal of School Violence, contradicts claims that the drills … Read more
Agrobacterium rhizogenes- and Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation in rubber dandelion. Representative phenotypes of a (A) rubber dandelion wild-type (WT) plant regenerated from a root fragment, (B) transgenic rubber dandelion plant transformed with WT A. rhizogenes K599, (C) transgenic plant transformed with A. rhizogenes harboring the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein (Cas) 9 expression … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Experts have long pointed out the need for white parents to have conversations that directly address racism with their children to reduce racial bias. But many parents fail to have these crucial discussions. Psychology researchers at Northwestern University have now published the first study to demonstrate the immediate effectiveness of a … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The 2022 baby formula crisis highlighted the precarious balance between regulation, competition and safety, according to a recent study published last month. The study titled “Navigating the Challenges of Building a More Resilient Infant Formula Industry” was published in Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association journal. … Read more
The AethLabs microAeth MA350. Credit: AethLabs Black carbon is the most dangerous air pollutant you’ve never heard of. Its two main sources, diesel exhaust and wood smoke from wildfires and household heating, produce ultrafine air particles that are up to 25 times more of a health hazard per unit compared to other types of particulate … Read more
Artist’s impression of ERS-2 in space. Credit: ESA Launched in 1995, ERS-2 was a pioneering Earth observation satellite that greatly influenced our understanding of our planet and climate change. Despite an intended operational life of only three years, the satellite had a 16-year operational lifetime, and together with the almost identical ERS-1 satellite left an … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Children living in multilingual communities often learn in a language at school that does not match the language they speak at home. This mismatch makes it challenging for them to participate in classroom discussions and learn to read. In turn, this contributes to poor learning outcomes, grade repetition, and dropping out … Read more
Fluorescence and self-healing property of the flower-printed film of terpolymer composed of ethylene, anisylpropylene, and pyrenylethenyl-substituted styrene. Credit: RIKEN A research team at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) has succeeded in developing a self-healing material that is also capable of emitting a high amount of fluorescence when absorbing light. The research, published … Read more
Black Soldier fly larvae, like this one at Pronofa laboratory in Fredrikstad, is one of the options being studied for use as salmon feed. Norway’s fish farms are feeding their salmon an increasingly vegetarian diet in order to make their businesses more sustainable, but for these carnivorous pink-fleshed fish, all is not rosy. In submerged … Read more
The evolutionary status of HD 1936. Credit: Çalışkan et al, 2024 Using the Ankara University Kreiken Observatory (AUKR) in Turkey, astronomers have performed high-resolution spectroscopic observations of a metal-poor star known as HD 1936. Results of the observations campaign, published February 15 on the preprint server arXiv, shed more light on the chemical composition of … Read more
