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By Colonel Ann Wright While I am in Istanbul, Turkiye with hundreds of international participants from 40 countries who are attempting to sail in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla to break the illegal Israeli naval…

Mark McIntosh is dying. “And I have never felt more alive,” he says as we walk through his Denver-area home with jazz music humming in the background. McIntosh, 65, needs a kidney transplant. Forever healthy and active, his life turned…

NEW YORK, NY, September 21, 2021 – As the highly infectious Delta variant continues to sweep the nation – and children, teens and young adults are back to in-person learning and events as COVID cases surge – approximately 1 in 4 of all…

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND —  Teams of engineers are now focused on the formidable job of hauling the shattered remains of the Francis Scott Key Bridge out of Maryland’s Patapsco River, the first step toward reopening the Port of Baltimore and…

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One of the multiple factors that propelled the then relatively unknown apparatchik Vladimir Putin to the pinnacle of power in Russia in late 1999/early 2000, was his ability to convince many members of the Russian elite and the public…

NASA’s 12 Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) archive and distribute more than 100 petabytes of free and open-access data in NASA's Earth science collection. Undoubtedly, this is a boon to the worldwide community of Earth science…

Leaders from NIEHS and ten other federal agencies (see first sidebar) discussed innovative strategies to tackle emerging challenges related to hazardous waste cleanup as part of Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable (FRTR)…

DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “Global Clinical In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Laboratory Services Market: Strategy & Trends with Volume & Price Forecasts by Chemistry, Hematology, Microbiology, Pathology, Covid-19, and Molecular Dx by…

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Global Clinical In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Laboratory Services Market: Strategy & Trends with Volume & Price Forecasts by Chemistry, Hematology, Microbiology, Pathology, Covid-19, and Molecular Dx…

Kenya’s banking industry has in recent years been in the crosshairs of national, regional and international watchdogs, given the country’s role as a financial hub in eastern Africa. In 2023 Kenya enacted laws to curb money…

The recent nationwide audit of retracted research papers in China has shed light on significant challenges within the academic community. This audit, initiated by the Ministry’s Department of Science, Technology, and…

For Immediate Release February 23, 2000 (READING, Pa.) - A program on restoration projects involving area lakes and streams, including water pollution abatement efforts, will be held here March 6, 2000. It will run from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30…

The latest NIEHS Distinguished Lecture featured Sir Michael Marmot, Ph.D., professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London (UCL) and director of UCL’s Institute of Health Equity. Marmot, an expert on the social…

Despite multimodal treatment including microsurgical tumor resection followed by combined radio (RT)- and temozolomide (TMZ)-based chemotherapy, glioblastoma patients develop disease progression. As a result, the median survival after…

Artificial intelligence-powered health care, generative models in medical research and the ethics of broad AI integration were key topics at the March 18 Stanford Med LIVE event featuring experts from across Stanford Medicine.…

Turnovers often lead to points in basketball, particularly when one team steals the ball from the other. Steals can lead to uncontested layups. The 15th-seeded and 24-9 University of Maine’s women’s basketball team knows it…

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Global Digital Biomarkers Market - Outlook & Forecast 2024-2029" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The global digital biomarkers market was valued at USD 2.49 billion in 2023…

1 IntroductionThe cosmic X-ray background (CXB), i.e., the diffuse emission from 0.1 to 100 keV discovered in the early 1960s by Giacconi et al. (1962), has been a focal point at the center of X-ray astronomy research since then. As most…

Following the great success of the Data Providers Workshops held in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, the GEO Community was ready in 2020 to participate to the 1st Open Data and Open knowledge Workshop in China; Covid didn’t…

Credit: Whiting School of Engineering Johns Hopkins researchers have developed an efficient new method to turn blurry images into clear, sharp ones. Called Progressively Deblurring Radiance Field…

A boat propeller in seagrass beds off of Florida’s Nature Coast. Photo credit: Conor MacDonnell Aerial view of seagrass beds at the Chandeleur Islands. Photo by Kelly Darnell Join us on April 3 at 1 pm ET for our next…

Credit: Whiting School of Engineering Johns Hopkins researchers have developed an efficient new method to turn blurry images into clear, sharp ones. Called Progressively Deblurring Radiance Field…

Credit: Whiting School of Engineering Johns Hopkins researchers have developed an efficient new method to turn blurry images into clear, sharp ones. Called Progressively Deblurring Radiance Field…

Credit: Whiting School of Engineering Johns Hopkins researchers have developed an efficient new method to turn blurry images into clear, sharp ones. Called Progressively Deblurring Radiance Field…

Credit: Whiting School of Engineering Johns Hopkins researchers have developed an efficient new method to turn blurry images into clear,…

IPMN is a grossly visible (>5 mm) intraductal epithelial neoplasm arising in the main duct and/or branch duct of the pancreas. IPMN can occur anywhere in the pancreatic ductal system, with the pancreatic head being the most common…

The latest Keystone Science Lecture Series featured Yu-Ying He, Ph.D., professor of medicine at the University of Chicago and an expert in a relatively new field known as epitranscriptomics. Also known as RNA epigenetics or RNA…

The challenges of working on the surface of the Moon are at the center of a facility at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. The Lunar Lab and Regolith Testbeds help scientists and engineers – from NASA and…

African women leaders gather at a luncheon during the Africa Health Conference March 13, 2024 – The second annual Africa Health Conference at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health highlighted the changing health…

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration launched an initiative Wednesday that it describes as a nationwide call to increase training on and access to life-saving opioid overdose reversal medications, dubbed…

The NIEHS Women’s Health Awareness (WHA) program welcomed 234 registrants to the Sept. 9 virtual presentation “Coping With Grief and Loss During COVID-19,” the latest webinar in its virtual series RealTalk With the Experts. Alesia…

2. The Innovative FOCUS Program 2.1. GoalsEducation for sustainable development can succeed if it is based on the principles of transformative education and central ESD skills are taught . For this reason, the InFOCUS program was…

March 7, 2024 – In recent years, concerns have been raised about the dangers of research on risky pathogens—the kind that could trigger a pandemic. In February, a task force convened by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists released a…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — In his Super Tuesday victory speech, former President Donald Trump elevated false information that had gone viral on social media, claiming the Biden administration secretly flew hundreds of thousands of migrants…

The stressful conditions fire and emergency medical services (EMS) responders endure are getting more attention as alarming statistics on responder behavioral health are revealed.Behavioral health is defined by the American Medical…

Ambassador Gafoor, Excellencies, Colleagues,Under your leadership, Chair, this working group has built significant agreement on ICT threats in the context of international security, including in situations of armed conflict.Delegations…

As part of a social science research study in partnership with the National Weather Service (NWS), Nurture Nature Center (NNC) is recruiting participants for focus groups on the use of NWS flood forecast and warning tools. The NNC-hosted…

The DRBC Flood Advisory Committee met on November 6, 2013. Traditionally held four times a year at the commission’s office building in West Trenton, N.J., this meeting’s location was the Nurture Nature Center (NNC) in Easton, Pa. NNC…

The DRBC Flood Advisory Committee met on November 6, 2013. Traditionally held four times a year at the commission's office building in West Trenton, N.J., this meeting's location was the Nurture Nature Center (NNC) in Easton, Pa. NNC is…

The NIEHS Women's Health Awareness (WHA) program hosted a Nov. 18 webinar titled “Healthy Air, Healthy Food, Healthy Heart.” The event was part of a WHA virtual series called RealTalk With the Experts. Air pollution, diet, and…

Rick Woychik, Ph.D., directs NIEHS and the National Toxicology Program. (Image courtesy of NIEHS) Since joining NIEHS in 2018 as Scientific Director of the institute’s Division of the National Toxicology Program (DNTP), Brian Berridge,…

The NIEHS Diversity Speaker Series recognized Native American Heritage Month with a Nov. 30 webinar featuring Ashley Wells, principal strategist for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Special Emphasis Portfolio for Native…

1. IntroductionHuman activity involves many forms of tool use and related tool-use learning . The term “tool” can be used in a broad sense to encompass a wide variety of both concrete (hand, switch, joystick, etc.) and abstract (methods…

Riley said WRUC trains workers to respond to wildfires, extreme heat, flooding, droughts, and more recently, the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo courtesy of Kevin Riley)Climate-related disasters and worker safety were among the topics…

Well-known accelerator group Techstars announced a slew of changes to its operations this week, including the shuttering of some of its city-based programs.  Criticism from former members of its decisions lit social media channels…

View Data is a LAADS DAAC visual search tool that allows users to preview full-resolution images of MODIS and VIIRS atmospheric datasets before downloading or ordering data. This visualization shows Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) data from…

Research may help with firefighting, evacuations.Scientists have successfully applied a pair of advanced computer models to simulate last year’s wildfire that devastated the Hawaiian town of Lahaina. The development could lay the…

"We have to get the economy going before firms are going to invest," said Stiglitz, who is also a Columbia University professor. "There is an idea somehow that when the government cuts back, the private sector will get…

Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. NASA published its 2023 Equity Action Plan Wednesday, which outlines key accomplishments in increasing equity across the agency, and new commitments to continue removing inequitable barriers and…