Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers have discovered new white shark behaviors by attaching smart tags and cameras to their fins, revealing never-before-seen details of the lives of the elusive creatures. While the team’s previous research uncovered white sharks hunting for seals in kelp forests, the latest research revealed that the white shark adapts its behavior … Read more
The World Health Organization has approved a version of a widely used cholera vaccine that could help address a surge in cases that has depleted the global vaccine stockpile and left poorer countries scrambling to contain epidemics. WHO authorized the vaccine, made by EuBiologics, which also makes the formulation now used, last week. The new … Read more
Credit: Mike Anderson from Pexels Asbestos has been found in mulch used for playgrounds, schools, parks and gardens across Sydney and Melbourne. Local communities naturally fear for the health of their loved ones. Exposure to asbestos is a serious health risk—depending on its intensity, frequency and duration—as it may lead to chronic lung diseases. The … Read more
Generation of multilineage lung organoids from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). Credit: Nano Today (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.nantod.2024.102254 Human mini-lungs grown by University of Manchester scientists can mimic the response of animals when exposed to certain nanomaterials. The study is published in Nano Today. Though not expected to replace animal models completely, human organoids could soon … Read more
Jeff Bezos wants to build permanent outposts on the moon and colonize space. Richard Branson wants to make spaceflight as commonplace as air travel. Elon Musk wants to settle Mars to make humanity multiplanetary. IBX’s Kam Ghaffarian wants to go even further: the stars. “There’s this common denominator of combining altruism, to do something purposeful … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain California’s second wet winter in a row has left L.A’s water supplies in good shape for at least another year, but the inevitable return to dry conditions could once again put the city’s residents in a precarious position. After the state’s final snow survey of the season, officials with the Los … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A drought that pushed millions of people into hunger across southern Africa has been driven mostly by the El Niño weather pattern—not climate change, scientists said on Thursday. Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi have declared a national disaster over the severe dry spell that started in January and has devastated the agricultural … Read more
Patrick Holden strolls across the field, pausing from time to time to bend and point out a bumblebee, or a white butterfly, or a dung beetle. A wide expanse of blue sky stretches above. Beneath, undulating green hills, sprawling hedgerows, a horizon broken only by the jagged tips of Wales’ Cambrian mountain range. Sun-soaked goodness. … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain China is bolstering its space capabilities and is using its civilian program to mask its military objectives, the head of the US space agency NASA said Wednesday, warning that Washington must remain vigilant. “China has made extraordinary strides especially in the last 10 years, but they are very, very secretive,” NASA … Read more
Marcos Buckeridge, Francina Dominguez and Kelvin Droegemeier during a panel at FAPESP Week Illinois. Credit: Elton Alisson/Agência FAPESP A consortium made up of researchers from more than ten countries, including Brazil, the United States and some European nations, is running simulations of the past and future climate in South America with unprecedented resolution. The aim … Read more
