A male western lowland gorilla inside its enclosure at Zoo Atlanta last year. Credit: Erik S Lesser/EPA Several members of a group of western lowland gorillas at Zoo Atlanta have tested positive for the coronavirus after trainers observed a lot of the great apes were displaying symptoms of moderate coughing, drippy noses as well as a...
Although cats have lived together with humans for millennia, it remains a dogs world. This predisposition has traditionally bled right into science also. It is time for cats to get their day, suggests veterinary medicine expert Leslie Lyons in a Forum published July 28 in the journal Trends in Genetics. Cats, she says, have...
The intergovernmental cooperation between the United States and China was an essential part of the battle against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003. However, a significant cooperation to battle COVID-19 has not happened yet. The state of US and China bilateral connections and the failure to collaborate have possibly worsened the pandemic. Despite resemblances...
Scientists have established a mathematical model to anticipate the maximum exercise program for building muscular tissue. The scientists from the University of Cambridge utilized methods of theoretical biophysics to create the model, which can inform just how much a certain amount of physical effort will lead a muscle to grow and how much time it...
https://vimeo.com/601024128 Researchers working with data from NASA's Parker Solar Probe set up the most complete photo yet of the internal structure and behavior of the big cloud of space dust, referred to as the zodiacal cloud, that swirls throughout the solar system. They identified three dust populations in the cloud. A lot of the grains...
A new research study published on September 7 details an innovation in developing advanced enzymes to sustain a renewable process to produce one of the vital products of the chemical industry (isobutene), used everywhere from beauty products to fuel. The freshly published discoveries are the outcome of collective work between Global Bioenergies and the team...
Students from Monash Chemical Engineering developed a sustainable, autonomous water treatment system that eliminates persistent organic pollutants from industrial wastewater using nature's natural water treatment cycle as inspiration. The unique Stand Alone Sunflow System (SASS) - developed by Ph.D. students Mostafa Dehghani and Mahdi Naseri, and also undergraduate student Clare Carew - utilizes conveniently accessible as...
Hydrogen fuel stemmed from the sea could be a bountiful and sustainable substitute to fossil fuels; however, the potential power source has been limited by technological obstacles, consisting of exactly how to harvest it. Scientists at the University of Central Florida designed for the very first time a nanoscale material that can successfully divide seawater...
If you are considering taking a performing or visual arts subject in years 11 and also 12, you are making a few considerations. These might include your interest and affinity to the topic, how doing a few arts subjects may influence your entry into university, and what to do with skills you learn. Approximately 30%...
A trio of scientists at the University of Oxford has discovered that male characters appear more frequently than female characters in stories written by kids of either sex. In their paper published in the journal Society for Research in Child Development, Yaling Hsiao, Nilanjana Banerji, and Kate Country explain their analysis of short stories...
