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New Metrics Could Reduce Gender Gap In STEM Fields

Hiring, promotion and tenure within universities are based on objective metrics of performance, something that is often evaluated using metrics that disproportionately favor men over women, such as citations and invited lectureships.

Dragging Your Feet? Lack Of Sleep Affects Your Walk, New Study Finds

Periodically catching up on sleep can improve gait control for the chronically sleep-deprived.

Study Finds Childhood Diet Has Lifelong Impact

Effects of unhealthy food followed young mice into adulthood

Young Orangutans Have Sex-Specific Role Models

Social learning in orangutans is shaped by their sex. Young males learn their foraging skills from immigrant individuals, while young females get their skills by observing their mothers and other residents in the area. These different sets of ecological knowledge help secure their survival.

Researchers Track Endangered Nassau Grouper Eggs with Underwater Microscope

Scripps Oceanography researchers show fertilized eggs stayed local, but in some years drifted to nearby islands.

Carbon Nanotube-Based Sensor Can Detect SARS-Cov-2 Proteins

The technology could be developed as a rapid diagnostic for Covid-19 or other emerging pathogens.

Making Machine Learning More Useful To High-Stakes Decision Makers

A visual analytics tool helps child welfare specialists understand machine learning predictions that can assist them in screening cases.

T Cells Can Activate Themselves to Fight Tumors

UC San Diego scientists find an auto-signaling mechanism driving the T cell anti-tumor response

Missing Role of Finance in Climate Mitigation Scenarios

Researchers at the University of Zurich show how climate mitigation scenarios can be improved by taking into account that the financial system can play both an enabling or a hampering role on the path to a sustainable economic system.

High School Students Learn the Basics of Base Editing to Cure “GFP-itis”

Outreach program introduces local students to genome engineering and a career in science

Engineers Devise A Way To Selectively Turn On RNA Therapies In Human Cells

A new RNA-based control switch could be used to trigger production of therapeutic proteins to treat cancer or other diseases.

Creating Dynamic Symmetry In Quantum Systems

MIT researchers develop a new way to control and measure energy levels in a diamond crystal; could improve qubits in quantum computers.

More Intense And Frequent Thunderstorms Linked To Global Climate Variability

Using isotopes from Texas cave stalactites, scientists in Texas A&M’s College Of Geosciences studied thunderstorm changes in the Southern Great Plains.

Study Finds The SARS-Cov-2 Virus Can Infect The Inner Ear

The prevalence of auditory symptoms in Covid-19 patients is unknown, but infection of the inner ears may be responsible for hearing and balance problems.

Study: Indoor Air Cleaners Fall Short On Removing Volatile Organic Compounds

Comparison of four oxidation-based cleaners suggests the devices produce their own pollutants and vary in effectiveness.

Let The Animals Eat Macadamia Nut Cake

When macadamia nut oil is processed, what’s left is a byproduct called macadamia nut cake (MNC). Until recently, MNC was considered a waste product and therefore, went straight to the landfill.

Environmental Factors, Species Influence Rat Lungworm Infection In Snails

Different species of snails in Hawaiʻi host variable amounts of infectious rat lungworm, the nematode (roundworm) known scientifically as Angiostrongylus cantonensis, which causes rat lungworm disease

Oʻahu Marine Protected Areas Offer Limited Protection Of Coral Reef Herbivorous Fishes

Marine protected areas (MPAs) around Oʻahu do not adequately protect populations of herbivorous reef fishes that eat algae on coral reefs.

Climate Change, Bats Linked To COVID-19 Pandemic

Global greenhouse gas emissions over the last century have made southern China a hotspot for bat-borne coronaviruses, by driving growth of forest habitat favored by bats

Turtles Face ‘Daunting Future’ Due To Climate Change, Other Factors

Turtles worldwide face a grim future and may be particularly vulnerable to the effects of habitat destruction and climate change.