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Graduate-student stipends in Canada below the poverty line
The University of Toronto in Canada raised its graduate-student stipends last November.Credit: James Wagner/Getty Stipends for biology and physics graduate students at Canadian universities fall well short of a living wage, an analysis reports. “All of the minimum stipends we found were below the poverty line after tuition, except for the physics department at the…
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Green tea consumption and cerebral white matter lesions in community-dwelling older adults without dementia
Abstract This study investigated the association between green tea or coffee consumption with cerebral white matter lesions and hippocampal and total brain volumes among 8766 community-dwelling participants recruited from the Japan Prospective Studies Collaboration for Aging and Dementia between 2016 and 2018. A Food Frequency Questionnaire was used to assess green tea and coffee consumption,…
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Earth shattered heat records in 2023 and 2024: is global warming speeding up?
Earth’s temperature has been climbing for decades.Credit: Mark J. Terrill/AP/Alamy Earth’s temperature has surged in the past two years, and climate scientists will soon announce that it hit a milestone in 2024: rising to more than 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. But is this sudden spike just a blip in the climate data, or an…
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MICHAEL TIDEMANN: Memoir blends science and nature
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Writers & Writing: Memoir blends science and nature
“23 Woodcock in 22 Years,” by Jeff Wilkerson (University of Iowa Press, ISBN 978-1-60938-987-1) At first glance, Jeff Wilkerson’s memoir of science and nature, “23 Woodcock in 22 Years,” seems a bit of an anomaly. The subtitle, “Reflections on Hunting, the Night Sky and Our Place in the Universe,” seems even more incongruous. #placement_661376_0_i{width:100%;margin:0 auto;}…
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Writers & Writing: Memoir blends science and nature
“23 Woodcock in 22 Years,” by Jeff Wilkerson (University of Iowa Press, ISBN 978-1-60938-987-1) At first glance, Jeff Wilkerson’s memoir of science and nature, “23 Woodcock in 22 Years,” seems a bit of an anomaly. The subtitle, “Reflections on Hunting, the Night Sky and Our Place in the Universe,” seems even more incongruous. #placement_661376_0_i{width:100%;margin:0 auto;}…
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Neighborhood Spotlight: Julie Child—Drawn To Science
Julie Child recalls that, even as a young girl, she “always liked to draw plants and animals.” Little did she know then that she would later become a professional biological illustrator, with her work now preserved forever in many books, journals and pamphlets. A love of science and nature runs deeply in her blood. Her…
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Why don’t new memories overwrite old ones? Sleep science holds clues
Artificially coloured nerve fibres in a mouse’s hippocampus, the brain region where new memories are encoded.Credit: Mark & Mary Stevens Neuroimaging & Informatics Institute/Science Photo Library New clues have emerged in the mystery of how the brain avoids ‘catastrophic forgetting’ — the distortion and overwriting of previously established memories when new ones are created. A…
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‘Precocious’ early-career scientists with high citation counts proliferate
In 2023, more than 450 scientists who had begun publishing research only in the previous eight years were among the ranks of most-cited researchers. Credit: Getty The number of ‘precocious’ scientists — those who become top-cited authors early in their careers — has surged in the past few years, according to an analysis1 of the…
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Advancing the science of headwater streamflow for global water protection
Abstract The protection of headwater streams faces increasing challenges, exemplified by limited global recognition of headwater contributions to watershed resiliency and a recent US Supreme Court decision limiting federal safeguards. Despite accounting for ~77% of global river networks, the lack of adequate headwaters protections is caused, in part, by limited information on their extent and…