China’s stricter clean heating policies may have saved thousands of lives – study
China’s stricter clean heating policies have improved air quality in northern China, particularly in Beijing and surrounding cities– potentially reducing ...
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Humans have influenced the growth of blue-green algae in lakes for thousands of years
In recent years, there have been increasing reports of toxic blue-green algae blooms in summer, even in German lakes, caused ...
Plague trackers: Researchers cover thousands of years in a quest to understand the elusive origins of the Black Death
Seeking to better understand more about the origins and movement of bubonic plague, in ancient and contemporary times, researchers at ...
Tapping hidden visual information: An all-in-one detector for thousands of colours
Spectrometers are widely used throughout industry and research to detect and analyse light. Spectrometers measure the spectrum of light – ...
NASA’s Lucy to fly past thousands of objects for earth gravity assist
Mission engineers will track NASA’s Lucy spacecraft nonstop as it prepares to swoop near Earth on Oct. 16 to use this planet’s ...
Dinosaur-killing asteroid triggered global tsunami that scoured seafloor thousands of miles from impact site
Video // Images and Animations The miles-wide asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago wiped out nearly all the ...
Don’t use drugs and ride: Hospitals treat thousands of drug-related bike injuries each year
By Paul Candon Credit: Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs By Paul Candon PISCATAWAY, NJ — From 2019 to ...
PSU-led project to overhaul biology ed will impact thousands of undergrads, future faculty
A Portland State University researcher says an overhaul of biology education is needed if more marginalized students are to pursue ...
For the first time, scientists have systematized all the halos discovered over thousands of years of observations
For the first time in the history of observations, scientists from the Helsinki and Ural Federal Universities Jarmo Moilanen and ...
Microbial ´dark matter´: Centuries-old lava caves of Hawaiʻi Island contain thousands of unknown bacterial species
The lava caves, lava tubes and geothermal vents on the big island of Hawaiʻi have higher bacterial diversity than scientists ...
New blood test could spare thousands of colon cancer patients from unnecessary chemotherapy
Australian-US researchers have developed a new blood test that could revolutionise how chemotherapy is used for colon cancer, by identifying the ...
Sea turtle success stories along African east coast – but thousands still dying
Conservation of sea turtles along much of Africa's east coast has made good progress in recent decades – but tens ...
Brazil’s Northeast region probably dried up during Earth’s last minimum axial tilt thousands of years ago
The São Francisco River drainage basin in Brazil’s Northeast region contains a substantial portion of the savanna-like Cerrado biome as ...
New modelling shows that ‘shielding’ strategies instead of lockdowns would have led to tens of thousands more deaths
Shielding those vulnerable to COVID-19, while allowing the virus to spread, largely unmitigated, through the rest of the population, would ...
Thousands of tonnes of air pollution could be reduced by changing the way we dry our laundry
A new study has revealed that tumble drying a load of laundry releases almost the same amount of potentially harmful ...
For accuracy, brain studies of complex behavior require thousands of people
As brain scans have become more detailed and informative in recent decades, neuroimaging has seemed to promise a way for ...
Data from thousands of cameras confirms protected areas promote mammal diversity
A new University of British Columbia study offers new evidence that protected areas are effective at conserving wildlife. Credit: Photo by Cole ...
Changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet volume lag climate changes, such that today’s climate could still be affecting its size in thousands of years’ time
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Meeting ATS-recommended air quality standards would save thousands of lives
Jan. 13, 2022─ A paper published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society presents research discussing how new ...
How DNA is preserved in archaeological sediments for thousands of years
Sediments in which archaeological finds are embedded have long been regarded by most archaeologists as unimportant by-products of excavations. However, ...