Academy of Natural Sciences

JUNE 21, 2022

With support from the Office of Research & Innovation, the College of Engineering and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, seven projects were awarded with over $130,000 in total funding. Environmental Protection Agency. Please visit the Provost’s Office website for more detailed project descriptions.

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Physics World

MAY 12, 2022

Ultrasound neuromodulation can prevent the onset of hyperglycaemia or reverse type 2 diabetes in laboratory mice, rats and pigs, according to new research published in Nature Biomedical Engineering. The stimulation improved whole-body glucose homoeostasis, specifically the stability of maintaining blood sugar towards healthy normal levels.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2023

Prachi Sanghavi , Assistant Professor of Public Health Sciences at UChicago and senior author on the paper, said she first became interested in studying the potential health impacts of fracking in the early 2010s. This was during the peak of the unconventional natural gas development boom, colloquially known as “fracking.”

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Frontiers

DECEMBER 27, 2021

They show that the pharaoh was around 35 years old, 169cm tall, circumcized, and in good physical health when he died, apparently from natural causes. They report their findings in Frontiers in Medicine. Death from natural causes. “By 1525 to 1504 BCE), the only royal mummy to remain unopened in modern times. Ancient reburial.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2022

It was filed by the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union and the Green League, who object to a 30-year groundwater pumping permit given by state regulators. The town is at the center of a long-running dispute over groundwater contamination caused by natural gas drilling and fracking. That lawsuit is now headed to court.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Lightning, a visible form of plasma, is a naturally occurring electrostatic discharge between two electrically charged regions that produce a giant arc of electricity with gigajoule energy in the ambient air. We anticipate that this treatment approach is also applicable to other types of solid cancer,” note the authors. Read more. “Our

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Frontiers

MARCH 28, 2023

A Pioneer Al-Zahrawi pioneered neurosurgery and neurological diagnosis, and was the first physician to identify the hereditary nature of haemophilia (a condition that affects the blood’s ability to clot), as well as the first to describe an abdominal pregnancy. He also invented the forceps for extracting a dead fetus.

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Physics World

JUNE 9, 2022

They describe their findings in Nature Communications. The emerging ability to light up a single cell that may be invisible to the eye provides great opportunity to give patients the best chance at an early diagnosis before cancer spreads,” explains first author Gregory Kennedy in a press statement. Courtesy: Penn Medicine).

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2023

A variety of studies have documented that radioactivity is brought to the surface with natural gas and oil production and travels through natural gas pipelines, oil refining systems, natural gas processing and liquid and solid waste disposal and treatment facilities. on YouTube. Haley, M.D., Why Does It Matter?

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Physics World

AUGUST 5, 2021

A team of neuroscientists and engineers at the University of California San Francisco ( UCSF ) used deep-learning and natural-language models to decode the brain waves of a clinical trial participant with severe paralysis and anarthria as he attempted to produce words and sentences. Recording the brain – restoring the speech link.

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Frontiers

JANUARY 15, 2023

First author Franziska Häfner, a PhD student at University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany, said: “Here we show that products derived from recycling human urine and feces are viable and safe nitrogen fertilizers for cabbage cultivation. Low risk from pharmaceuticals in fecal compost. Huge potential’.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 23, 2023

“Wound care is one of today’s most expensive and overlooked threats to patientsand our overall healthcare system,” said Robert Fraser of Western University and Swift Medical Inc, corresponding author of the study published in Frontiers in Medicine.

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Physics World

MAY 4, 2021

Theory and experiment have long served as the two pillars of the scientific method and our exploration of the natural world. Judge, jury and AI-xecutioner – Achintya Rao reviews A Citizen’s Guide to AI by John Zerilli and co-authors. Mind and matter: the May 2021 edition of Physics World is a special issue on AI and physics.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2022

We need doctors and farmers to come together to form a unified solution that reinvents healthcare by working with nature, not against it.” We need to engage Western medicine to bridge the divide between human health and agriculture for the benefit of all living things. Sinskey Foundation. “We

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Physics World

JUNE 2, 2021

. “To keep patient data safe, it should never leave the clinic where it is collected,” emphasizes project leader and first author Georgios Kaissis in a press statement. Kaissis and collaborators, also from OpenMined and Imperial College London , publish their findings in Nature Machine Intelligence. Decentralized training.

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Physics World

JANUARY 6, 2022

Such lasers have also made it possible to accelerate particles using light alone, which is important for many branches of sciences, including nuclear and particle physics, materials science, nuclear medicine and radiography. Industrial lasers generate attosecond light pulses.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The samples — extracted from deer retropharyngeal lymph nodes, which are located in the head and neck — had been collected by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources as part of its routine statewide Chronic Wasting Disease surveillance program. Other authors include Rachel M. Hudson , Willaman Professor of Biology.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 21, 2023

One study by scientists at the Natural Resources Defense Council provides a methodology, where publicly available data were pulled together to identify highly exposed or more susceptible populations. This is a broad definition.

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Frontiers

JUNE 15, 2021

For centuries, indigenous people used prickly wild rose as both food and medicine, particularly the reproductive parts. Wood and lead author Alexandra Golt, a graduate student at UNBC, observed color changes in flower petals and anthers of treated plants.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 15, 2023

Specifically, people with asthma have a 4 to 5 times greater chance of having an asthma attack if they live near unconventional natural gas development wells during the production phase. " Data suggest that those who lived closer to greater intensity of unconventional natural gas development activities had the highest risk.

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Frontiers

JUNE 16, 2022

Graduating in Medicine and Surgery and specializing in Internal Medicine in Catania, he obtained a PhD at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. The author of nearly two hundred articles published in prestigious journals, he also deposited two sequences in the gene bank.

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

“Cryobioprinting can give bioprinted tissue an extended shelf life and allows convenient transport of tissue between sites, which is something conventional bioprinting methods do not readily enable,” says senior author Y Shrike Zhang. Taking bioprinting to new heights. the pillars) and microscale anisotropy (i.e.

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Frontiers

MAY 20, 2021

Our results suggest that this is the first known case of a flower that tricks pollinators by smelling like dead and rotting arthropods rather than vertebrate carrion,” says corresponding author Prof Stefan Dötterl, the head of plant ecology group and the Botanical Gardens at the Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria.

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Physics World

APRIL 21, 2022

We are used to the idea that in medicine, simple fixes often come with side effects. Instead, there is a small delay between the error and the correction, explains Florentin Reiter , a physicist at ETH and the co-author of a study in Physical Review Letters describing the research. “In

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 3, 2024

“When the outside temperature is hot and humid, just perspiration is not enough to cool down the body since there is no evaporation of sweat,” says Abhiyant Tiwari, lead climate resilience and health consultant at India’s Natural Resources Defense Council.

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Frontiers

JUNE 12, 2023

Author: Thimedi Hetti The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life Below Water is about aiming to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development. We spent a lot of time in nature, enjoying the outdoors with family and friends. We spent a lot of time swimming in the sea.

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Law Columbia

MAY 10, 2022

A recent report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) concluded that the “ocean holds great potential for uptake and longer-term sequestration of” carbon dioxide. For example, through natural upwelling (i.e., states and the federal government share authority over the 200 nautical mile zone.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

The assessment further identified rising health issues related to natural resource extractions [defined by the Health Department as oil and gas development ] and the health impacts resulting from climate change as two of the top five threats affecting health outcomes of Pennsylvanians. failing well casings, surface spills or leaks, etc.).

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Physics World

APRIL 20, 2021

Researchers at the laboratory Physics for Medicine Paris have performed the first microscopic mapping of the vascular network in the human brain. The team used transcranial ultrafast ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) of intravenously injected microbubbles to capture intracranial blood flow dynamics with a resolution of around 25 µm.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The inherent rights of Indigenous Nations mean the authority given to the people by the Great Spirit for self-determination. It’s our connectedness to the natural world, our cultural identity, and deep sense of community that this landscape keeps alive. The first treaties that we hold as Indigenous peoples are with the natural world.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

Thanks to improvements in veterinary medicine and cattle breeds, their herds can now survive tropical diseases in southern Nigeria. . According to one 2018 study , about two thirds of the expansion can be attributed to changes in natural climate cycles, while the remaining third is likely “due to human-driven shifts” in the region.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 1, 2022

In the first week of December 2021, the US National Academies of Science, Technology and Medicine (NASEM) released a much-awaited report evaluating the feasibility and cost of alternative ocean-based CDR approaches. Two recent developments aim to clear a path for testing these controversial methods in the ocean.

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Frontiers

APRIL 25, 2022

Author: Alessandra Scala. Eventually, I enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine in France, but I failed to pass the entrance test. Her recent line of research studies the bacterial virulence of phytopathogenic bacteria using kiwifruit plant models. I knew it would be science related.

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Frontiers

JUNE 26, 2023

Author: Sorcha Brennan Kate Soper is emerita professor of philosophy and a former researcher with the Institute for the Study of European Transformations at London Metropolitan University. She had a long association with Radical Philosophy and was a regular columnist for the US-based journal, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 4, 2024

WPATH is considered the leading global scientific and medical authority on “gender medicine,” and in recent decades, its Standards of Care have shaped the guidance, policies and practices of governments, medical associations, public health systems and private clinics across the world. And that requires informed consent.”

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 30, 2023

The Rundown The White House publishes a strategy for incorporating natural assets into economic accounts. Federal officials will hold a public session this week to gather input on the first National Nature Assessment. A permanent withdrawal can only be authorized by Congress. Studies and Reports Natural Capital Accounting.

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Frontiers

MARCH 8, 2022

“Both ancient artworks and genetics point to Bronze Age Greece, in approximately 1700 BCE or earlier, as the origin of saffron’s domestication,” said Ludwig Mann, one of the leading authors and a PhD student at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. ? Read original article ? Download original article (pdf). Asexually propagated by humans.

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