A critically endangered Western Lowland Gorilla mother holds her baby, one of two babies born at the zoo in Jan. and Feb. this year, at London Zoo in London, Monday, March 25, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth The newest endangered baby gorilla at the London Zoo is more than six weeks old but doesn’t yet … Read more
The connotation of safety and security civilization (SSC). Credit: Emergency Management Science and Technology (2023). DOI: 10.48130/EMST-2023-0014 Safety science literature and terminology reveal a limited array of concepts to describe the comprehensive characteristics of system safety and security, including terms such as safety culture and risk. Despite these efforts, the rapid evolution of safety science … Read more
b-Cool formation requires different sugar building blocks, which are depicted as colored hexagons. Specific enzymes link each sugar in a precise manner to form a membrane-anchored glycan (green zigzag). The glycan is likely transported outside the cell to carry out its activity during the early steps of disease progression. The researcher studied the functions of … Read more
The Arctic Ocean sea ice reached its annual maximum on March 14, continuing the long-term decline in ice at the poles. Credit: Lauren Dauphin / NASA Earth Observatory, using data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center Sea ice at both the top and bottom of the planet continued its decline in 2024. In … Read more
Experimental setup. 3D reconstruction of fish trajectories with 3 synchronized cameras. The locations of the fish were determined in each 2D image to calculate the 3D coordinates. The 3D coordinates are subsequently linked into 3D trajectories. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46426-1 Physicists are also interested in fish—above all when they are researching the formation … Read more
Credit: ACS Catalysis (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.3c06203 Typically, beautiful white wall paint does not stay beautiful and white forever. Often, substances from the air accumulate on its surface. This can be a desired effect because it makes the air cleaner for a while—but over time, the color changes and needs to be renewed. A research team … Read more
by Peter Veth, David W. Zeanah, Fiona Hook, Kane Ditchfield and Peter Kendrick, The Conversation Barrow Island has a different rock composition from the mainland. Most artefacts from Boodie Cave were made from limestone, while most found in the open air were similar to materials from the mainland. Credit: Compiled from data in Zeanah et … Read more
In Michael Levin’s lab, multicellular robots called Anthrobots are formed of human tracheal skin cells, with hairlike projections on their surfaces (shown in yellow) that propel them. The tiny Anthrobots can move across damaged nerve cells and help them heal—and researchers say that’s just the start of what they might do. Credit: Gizem Gumuskaya Near … Read more
Washington State University researchers and students collect samples and perform honey bee colony health assessments in orchards near Modesto, CA. Every year more than 2 million honey bee hives from across the country are moved to California to pollinate almond trees in February. To manage bee health and the logistics of the move, many commercial … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New Zealand’s glaciers are shrinking as ice melts at an accelerating rate, a top government scientist warned Monday after concluding a monitoring expedition in the country’s Southern Alps. The country’s climate institute conducts a yearly aerial “snowline survey”, which helps to chart how much ice the nation’s glaciers have lost. “Overall, … Read more
