19-Feb-2025 University of Tennessee names 2025 Chancellor’s Innovation Award recipients University of Tennessee at Knoxville For the second year, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is supporting entrepreneurial research led by UT faculty with Chancellor’s Innovation Fund awards of $50,000 for each project.
19-Feb-2025 How to help your children learn to try, and try again Mayo Clinic Life isn’t a string of continual successes; it’s a string of attempts at success. Think of your child’s first steps. Many of those initial efforts to walk likely ended in a tumble. But that didn’t stop them from getting up again. Soon enough, your child was walking and eventually running. That’s how growth works. In this expert alert, Angela Mattke, M.D., a pediatrician at Mayo Clinic Children’s Center, offers tips for helping your child learn to try, and try again.
18-Feb-2025 Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration! DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory On 12 February, the CEA’s WEST machine was able to maintain a plasma for more than 22 minutes. In doing so, it smashed the previous record for plasma duration achieved with a tokamak. This leap forward demonstrates how our knowledge of plasmas and technological control of them over longer periods is becoming more mature, and offers hope that fusion plasmas can be stabilised for greater amounts of time in machines such as ITER.
18-Feb-2025 5 things to know about fainting: The heart's role and when it may signal serious condition Mayo Clinic You may have heard that people who feel faint should sit with their heads between their knees, but is that true? And how can you tell whether you or someone else who has fainted should go to the emergency department or perhaps even see a cardiologist? Elijah Behr, M.D., a cardiologist at Mayo Clinic Healthcare in London, explains five things it is important to know about fainting.
18-Feb-2025 Pay attention to 4 health factors to prevent new heart syndrome American Heart Association About 90% of U.S. adults meet the criteria for a newly recognized syndrome that comes from a combination of heart disease, kidney disease, type 2 diabetes and obesity.[1] This cluster of chronic health conditions is called cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome. It can be prevented by paying attention to four health factors, according to scientific experts at the American Heart Association, a global force changing the future of health for all.
18-Feb-2025 Autonomous robots track plankton in the Arctic Ocean Norwegian University of Science and Technology Underwater robots, combined with simple instruments from 100 years ago, are helping researchers unlock the secrets of microscopic marine organisms called plankton. Journal PLOS One
18-Feb-2025 High-performance NMR spectrometer now in use for marine research University of Oldenburg Dissolved Organic Matter is a mysterious and still largely unidentified combination of substances that is thought to be enormously important for the global climate. Researchers in Oldenburg, Germany, are investigating this complex molecular mixture using two powerful instruments. An ultra-high-resolution mass spectrometer allows them to measure the molecular mass of the substances with a high degree of precision. The machine is one of the few of its kind in the world to be used in marine research. Now, the team has been equipped with a state-of-the-art NMR spectrometer, which will allow them to determine the exact molecular composition of the dissolved organic matter, and thus the processes that contribute to its formation and degradation. Funder Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
18-Feb-2025 Ehrenberg-Bass has earned the undivided respect of global brands over 20 years University of South Australia The world’s largest centre for research into marketing - University of South Australia’s Ehrenberg-Bass Institute of Marketing Science - is celebrating 20 years of transforming the industry and working with some of the biggest brands on the planet – and doing it from the small city of Adelaide, South Australia.
18-Feb-2025 INL’s enduring mission: How high-flux thermal irradiation testing became a foundation for US nuclear leadership DOE/Idaho National Laboratory Seventy-five years ago, the sweeping landscape of the Idaho desert over the Snake River Aquifer was a land of sagebrush, brown grass and lava rock. Today, the desert site facilities of Idaho National Laboratory are still home to sagebrush, brown grass and lava rock but also to of some of the world’s most cutting-edge nuclear fuel research and reactor prototype development.
17-Feb-2025 KTU chemists continue development of light-activated anticancer dyes Kaunas University of Technology Melanoma is one of the most aggressive skin cancers, with over 300,000 new cases reported worldwide each year. In Europe, the number of diagnoses has been rising rapidly. However, early detection and advanced treatments can significantly improve survival rates. Researchers at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) are contributing to the development of a non-invasive melanoma treatment, using light and special dyes. Journal European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
