In the unequal distribution of birds and other species, ecologists are tracing the impact of bigoted urban policies adopted decades ago. At a meeting of urban wildlife researchers in Washington, D.C., in June, one diagram made it into so many PowerPoint presentations that its recurrence became a running joke. The subject, though, was serious: The…

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…

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…

Newswise — A research team from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Montreal has just developed new tools to study the encounter between the members of two families of biomolecules essential to life: sugars and proteins. Opening the way to numerous applications, this work has just been published in Angewandte Chemie , a renowned scientific journal…

The LGBTQIA Alumni Network honored four alumni with the Community Enrichment Award at the LGBTQIA  Alumni Network Brunch during Homecoming & Reunion Weekend 2023, Saturday, Oct. 21. Special guests in attendance included President Connie Ledoux Book, Provost Rebecca Kohn, Senior Vice President for University Advancement and External Affairs Jim Piatt, Vice President for Student Life…

The colours of Gustav Klimt’s lost 1901 work Medicine were recovered by artificial intelligence.Credit: IanDagnall Computing/Alamy Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and computer vision are revolutionizing research — from medicine and biology to Earth and space sciences. Now, it’s art history’s turn. For decades, conventionally trained art scholars have been slow to take up computational…

Abstract To investigate the frequency of pneumonia and chest computed tomography (CT) findings in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) during the fifth Delta variant-predominant and sixth Omicron variant-predominant waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in Okinawa, Japan. A survey on chest CT examinations for patients with COVID-19 was conducted byhospitals with board-certified radiologists who provided…

A house in Qingdao, in China’s eastern Shandong province, where rooftops are being used to generate solar power.Credit: Lingqi Xie/Getty On board China’s high-speed rail network, travelling at more than 200 kilometres per hour, David Fishman knew that he had arrived in Shandong province when he saw a field of dark, glimmering rooftops from the…

Abstract Testing density-dependence and path-dependence in long-term population dynamics under differentiated local contexts contributes to delineate the changing role of socioeconomic forces at the base of regional disparities. Despite a millenary settlement history, such issue has been rarely investigated in Europe, and especially in highly divided countries such as those in the Mediterranean region. Using…

GLASGOW, Scotland, Nov. 21, 2023 — The ability to compress laser pulses to ultrahigh powers could open the way for compact lasers in the order of exawatt and above. Such powerful lasers would enable scientists to push the limits of physical science by deepening their study of the nature of matter. A new method for…