Next date: Sunday, November 05, 2023 | 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM A monthly educational lecture series covers history and natural science with new speakers each month. Perspectives in the Park is free and open to the public. Join us at Hogtown Creek Headwaters Nature Center to learn about topics including the Sweetwater Wetlands and the…

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Neel Broker as its new Chief Operating Officer (COO). Overseeing TNC’s global operations, including the Finance, Talent & Human Resources, Data & Technology, and Investment teams, Neel will work to ensure the organization is coordinating its strategy and execution effectively around the world to…

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WPDE) — It’s the fastest-growing sport in America. According to the Association of Pickleball Professionals, 19% of Americans played pickleball last year. Now, there is some science to explain why so many people are hitting the courts. It comes down to two things. Science shows it’s good for your mental health, but…

NEWS RELEASECOUCHICHING CONSERVANCY*************************The Couchiching Conservancy, a dedicated group of individuals committed to advancing environmental conservation and community science, is thrilled to announce the outstanding success of A Night Out for Nature. This fundraising event, generously hosted by Brewery Bay Food Co., and with the support of numerous silent auction donors and participants, raised over $13,000…

The many faces of monoamine transporters There are two types of VMAT: VMAT1 and VMAT2. VMAT1 is more specialized, found only in neuroendocrine cells, whereas VMAT2 is found throughout the neuronal system and has significant clinical relevance.  “We knew that VMAT2 is physiologically very important,” Lee said. “This transporter is a target for pharmacologically relevant…

About 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized object smashed into the young Earth, spraying debris that coalesced to form the moon, many scientists think. Some remnants of that object, called Theia, exist today as large amounts of dense material sitting atop Earth’s core, researchers propose November 1 in Nature. In recent years, geophysicists have discovered…

Denver Museum of Nature & Science Director of Anthropology Stephen E. Nash (foreground), Curator of Archaeology Michele L. Koons, and Collections Assistant Bethany Williams participating in a voluntary reburial ceremony for non-Indigenous human remains in Crestone, Colorado, in 2015. DMNS negative no. ANT2015-3-8 Jump to beginning of article Share this article This article originally appeared…

A tornado churns up dust at dusk near Traer, Iowa. Brad Goddard / NOAA One muggy day in July 1986, a news helicopter was recording footage of a festival in Minneapolis when the pilot and photographer glimpsed a tornado over nearby Brooklyn Park. They moved toward it, filming the powerful twister for 25 minutes, mesmerizing…

For years, if you asked the people working to create new pharmaceutical drugs what they wished for, at the top of their lists would be a way to easily replace a carbon atom with a nitrogen atom in a molecule. But two studies from chemists at the University of Chicago, published in Science and Nature,…

When Jan Schmitt’s sister set up a GoFundMe to cover burial expenses for her oldest child, her husband Douglas objected, saying paying for her funeral was their burden to bear as parents. Schmitt told him she’d tell her sister to take it down, but didn’t immediately contact her. The next day, Douglas said he knew…