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Eye on Education: Boys Ranch teacher creates a research center for students
BOYS RANCH, Texas (KFDA) – Boys Ranch High School science teacher Gary Gill created a nature science research center for his students. Lindsey Stiner is taking a look at how vital this center is for those students in tonight’s Eye on Education. Appealing to students’ various learning styles and immersing them in a variation of…
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Supplement Schadenfreude: FDA Hammers Balance Of Nature
I can’t even guess how many times I’ve written about our ridiculously inadequate laws that govern dietary supplements and how much useless and/or harmful crap is sold to unsuspecting consumers. Although many people will reflexively blame the FDA for the stuff being sold, that is not a fair criticism. Largely due to some cagey language in the Dietary Supplement…
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Microbiologist who was harassed during COVID pandemic sues university
Siouxsie Wiles, a microbiologist at the University of Auckland, is suing her employer for failing to adequately address the harassment she received as a result of her public comments during the COVID-19 pandemic.Credit: Photographers Inc. Microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles is suing her employer, the University of Auckland, in New Zealand’s employment court. She alleges that the…
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A guide to the Nature Index
The Nature Index is a database of author affiliations and institutional relationships. The index tracks contributions to research articles published in high-quality natural-science and health-science journals, chosen based on reputation by an independent group of researchers. The Nature Index provides absolute and fractional counts of article publication at the institutional and national level and, as…
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The effect of leucocytosis on retinopathy of prematurity
Abstract Postnatal leukocytosis reflects the general condition of inflammatory. Infection and inflammatory reaction have been proven to affect the occurrence of ROP and other visual dysfunction. Infants with a gestational age of < 28 weeks who were less than three days of age and admitted to the hospital between September 2015 and March 2021 were included in…
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Swathes of Earth are turning into desert — but the degradation can be stopped
The Aral Sea, on the border between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, almost completely dried up between 2000 (left) and 2018 (right).Credit: NASA Last week, Samarkand in Uzbekistan hosted an important intergovernmental conference on how to halt the creeping spread of degraded land. The country was aptly chosen: only about 800 kilometres from the meeting, the Aral…
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Behaviourally-informed household communications increase uptake of radon tests in a randomised controlled trial
Abstract Exposure to radon gas is a leading cause of lung cancer. Testing homes for the gas is straightforward, yet most people do not undertake tests even when offered freely. We report a pre-registered randomised controlled trial of communications to encourage test uptake. Households (N = 3500) in areas at high risk of radon exposure were randomly…
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The community should also support Palestinian scientists
Since the onset of the Israel–Hamas war last month, in which more than 10,000 Palestinian civilians have so far been killed, I have been trying to check on fellow Palestinian researchers in Gaza and the West Bank (see R. Dajani et al. Nature 602, 211; 2022). I was able to reach only one of them,…
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Rapidly growing subsidization of crop insurance in Europe ignores potential environmental effects
According to the European Green Deal, the EU aims to cut its pesticide use in half by 2030 (ref. 1). To reach this ambitious target, holistic pesticide policies have been proposed to avoid the unwanted side effects of single actions such as pesticide bans2,3. However, not only pesticide policies but also the entire toolkit of…
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Treatment of recalcitrant femur nonunion with pedicled corticoperiosteal medial femoral condyle flap
Abstract Periosteal or osteoperiosteal medial femoral condyle (MFC) flaps may be good options for atrophic nonunion. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of pedicled MFC flap in the treatment of recalcitrant femur nonunion without bone defect. Thirteen patients (11 male and 2 female), who suffered recalcitrant femur nonunion and…