How the Tech Behind a COVID-19 Vaccine is Helping Save Bees
After more than a decade in the industry, commercial beekeeper Liana Teigen Moreno thought she knew what she was doing when it came to making honey. A hipster pixie with a platinum crew cut and bright blue eyes, Teigen tends to 800 beehives in northern Florida. Her experience at the University of Florida’s Honey Bee Research Lab in Gainesville taught her everything she needed to know about bee diseases, knowledge that came in handy late last year when she realized that an insidious parasite that she had first learned about working her way through college as a part-time beekeeper had decimated her hives—despite ...
Source: TIME: Science - July 3, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Aryn Baker and Video by Andrew. D Johnson Tags: Uncategorized climate climate change Climate Is Everything COVID-19 feature Food & Agriculture healthscienceclimate Londontime Source Type: news
John Goodenough, The Scientist Who Helped Revolutionize Lithium-Ion Batteries, Dies at 100
John Goodenough, a pioneering researcher who helped transform lithium-ion batteries, died at the age of 100 on Sunday.
His inventions that helped develop modern computers and commercialize lithium-ion batteries touched every person’s life on the planet. Yet few knew him and his work didn’t bring him riches, though it did earn him a Nobel Prize very late in life. None of that bothered Goodenough, as he kept developing better batteries almost until the end of his life. His decades of work and innovation are now a cornerstone in the race to decarbonize the world’s vehicles and energy system.
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Source: TIME: Science - June 27, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Akshat Rathi / Bloomberg Tags: Uncategorized bloomberg wire climate change healthscienceclimate remembrance Source Type: news
Co-creator of lithium-ion battery and the oldest Nobel winner dies at age 100
John Goodenough ’s research enabled the technological revolution that powers most of our gadgets and toolsJohn Goodenough, who shared the 2019 Nobel prize in chemistry for his pioneering work developing the lithium-ion battery that transformed technology with rechargeable power for devices ranging from cellphones and computers to pacemakers and electric cars, has died at 100, the University of Texas announced on Monday.Goodenough died on Sunday at an assisted living facility in Austin, Texas, the university announced. No cause of death was given.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 26, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Associated Press Tags: Nobel prizes Technology Science People in science US news Source Type: news
John Goodenough: World's oldest Nobel Prize winner dies at 100
He passed away on Sunday, according to the University of Texas at Austin, where he worked as an engineering professor. Dr Goodenough was awarded a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2019 at the age of 97 for his work on batteries, including the development of the lithium-ion battery. Born in Germany in…#universityoftexas #austin #drgoodenough #anobelprize #worldwarii #yaleuniversity #phd #universityofchicago #johnhumphrys #university (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
SCOTUSPoll 2023: Views of landmark rulings in Griswold, Loving, Lawrence, and Obergefell
A new poll reveals that majorities of Americans support each of four Supreme Court decisions from the past six decades that protect personal freedoms. The 2023 SCOTUSPoll, conducted by researchers from Harvard University, Stanford University, and the University of Texas at Austin in collaboration…#supremecourt #harvarduniversity #stanforduniversity #universityoftexas #austin #yougov #connecticut #lovingvvirginia #lawrencevtexas #obergefell (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Texas looks to giant batteries to keep power grid on as heat dome persists
“Next week is going to be the real test,” said Joshua Rhodes, an energy research scientist at the University of Texas at Austin. “Just about every single air conditioner in those regions is going to want energy at the same time.” These Mack truck-size systems, which can quickly spew stored…#joshuarhodes #universityoftexas #austin #aaronzubaty #eolian #sanangelo #mexico #huetamo #battery #douglewin (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Mortality Increased for Children Whose Caregivers Decline Tracheostomy
WEDNESDAY, June 21, 2023 -- Less than half of critically ill children survive when caregivers decline tracheostomy placement, according to a study published online April 25 in The Laryngoscope.
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Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - June 21, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
How did snakes lose their limbs? Mass genome effort provides clues
Snakes are weirdos among vertebrates. Their bodies are typically too thin for more than one lung, they smell with their tongues, and—perhaps most importantly—they have no legs. Now, an extensive effort to sequence the genomes of more than a dozen snake species has uncovered mutations that likely helped make these appendages vanish, as well as the DNA underlying other unusual traits.
This research “will undoubtedly have a transformative impact on snake and vertebrate biology,” says Todd Castoe, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Texas at Arlington who was not involved with the work.
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Source: ScienceNOW - June 20, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Humanity ’s groundwater pumping has altered Earth’s tilt
While spinning on its axis, Earth wobbles like an off-kilter top. Sloshing molten iron in Earth’s core, melting ice, ocean currents, and even hurricanes can all cause the poles to wander. Now, scientists have found that a significant amount of the polar drift results from human activity: pumping groundwater for drinking and irrigation.
“The very way the planet wobbles is impacted by our activities,” says Surendra Adhikari, a geophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and an expert on Earth’s rotation who was not involved in the study. “It is, in a way, mind boggling.”
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Source: ScienceNOW - June 16, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Suicides and Homicides Among Young Americans Jumped During the Pandemic
NEW YORK — The homicide rate for older U.S. teenagers rose to its highest point in nearly 25 years during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the suicide rate for adults in their early 20s was the worst in more than 50 years, government researchers said Thursday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report examined the homicide and suicide rates among 10- to 24-year-olds from 2001 to 2021.
The increase is alarming and “reflects a mental health crisis among young people and a need for a number of policy changes,” said Dr. Steven Woolf, a Virginia Commonwealth University researcher who studies U.S. death t...
Source: TIME: Health - June 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mike Stobbe/AP Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Mental Health wire Source Type: news
Pandemic aid saved millions of Americans from eviction and the data proves It
By Jennah Haque | Bloomberg Edwin Bautista was a senior at the University of Texas at Austin and part-time technician at a consulting firm when inflation started to ravage his spending power. After his rent surged past $1,000 a month in early 2021 he feared he would have to move out — until he got…#jennahhaque #universityoftexas #austin #bloombergnews1 #tinasmith #minnesota #democrat #uscensusbureau #evictionlab #princetonuniversity (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Can ‘toxic’ bilirubin treat a variety of illnesses?
Generations of medical and biology students have been instilled with a dim view of bilirubin. Spawned when the body trashes old red blood cells, the molecule is harmful refuse and a sign of illness. High blood levels cause jaundice, which turns the eyes and skin yellow and can signal liver trouble. Newborns can’t process the compound, and although high levels normally subside, a persistent surplus can cause brain damage.
Yet later this year up to 40 healthy Australian volunteers may begin receiving infusions of the supposedly good-for-nothing molecule. They will be participating in a phase 1 safety trial, sponsored...
Source: ScienceNOW - June 8, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
University Of Texas Students Behind Censorship Project Targeting Conservative News Outlets
Authored by Bryan Jung via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), People walk at the University of Texas campus in Austin, Texas, June 23, 2016. (Jon Herskovitz/Reuters) Students at the University of Texas at…#bryanjung #epochtimes #universityoftexas #austin #jonherskovitzreuters #gdil #federalist #washingtonexaminer #gabekaminsky #gdi (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
More U.S. Adolescents Are Getting Weight-Loss Surgery
Weight-loss surgeries among adolescents increased substantially in recent years, part of an overall rise in obesity treatments in the U.S.
The number of adolescents ages 10 to 19 who underwent metabolic or bariatric surgery rose about 20% in 2021 from the year before, according to a research letter published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Pediatrics. Rates of these surgeries, which are uncommon, also rose among minors between 2019 and 2020, even as rates for adults dipped.
The findings come as doctors take an increasingly hands-on approach to weight loss, including in young people, amid rising ...
Source: TIME: Health - May 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ilena Peng and Emma Court/Bloomberg Tags: Uncategorized bloomberg wire healthscienceclimate Research Source Type: news
Ted Cruz's challenger gets strong support in early campaign days
Republican Senator Ted Cruz has never lost a race within his home state of Texas, but polling from within the Lone Star State, suggests he potentially could soon. A newly released poll that was taken between May 10 to 21 from the University of Texas at Tyler shows Cruz currently polling within…#tedcruz #lonestarstate #universityoftexas #tyler #colinallred #betoorourke #nfl #dallas #allred #democrat (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - May 29, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
