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Europe’s fish are moving to new waters

Europe’s fish are moving to new waters

BiologyEcologyEnvironmentGeosciences

By Invited Researcher

Author: Sevrine Sailley, Senior Scientist, Marine Ecosystem Modelling, Plymouth Marine Laboratory Climate change is reshaping fish habitats. Some fish are winners, others are losing out. Fish already face plenty of pressure from overfishing and pollution. Climate change is adding more: warmer waters and shifting food supplies cause what’s known as a predator-prey mismatch. This means […]

When words fail, the brain can find ways to speak through music

When words fail, the brain can find ways to speak through music

LanguageNeurolinguistics

By Invited Researcher

Authors: Lieke A. Heijmans is an undergraduate student at the Linguistics program of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Adrià Rofes is associate professor in Neurolinguistics at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Losing the ability to speak doesn’t always mean losing the ability to communicate. For many people living with aphasia (i.e., a language […]

How did the maker of stone tool over 1 million years old get to Sulawesi without a boat?

How did the maker of stone tool over 1 million years old get to Sulawesi without a boat?

AnthropologyArchaeology

By Invited Researcher

Authors: Adam Brumm, Professor of Archaeology, Griffith University; Basran Burhan, PhD Candidate, Archaeology, Griffith University; Gerrit (Gert) van den Bergh, Researcher in Palaeontology, University of Wollongong; Maxime Aubert, Professor of Archaeological Science, Griffith University, and Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Professor in Geochronology and Geochemistry, Southern Cross University Stone tools dating to at least 1.04 million years ago […]

The sweet spot of self-sufficient heterogeneous biocatalysts

The sweet spot of self-sufficient heterogeneous biocatalysts

BiochemistryBiotechnologyCatalysisChemical engineeringChemistry

By Invited Researcher

Authors: Fernando López-Gallego, Principal Investigator, Ikerbasque Professor and group leader at the Heterogeneous Biocatalysis Laboratory at CIC biomaGUNE; Ainhoa Oliden-Sánchez, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Heterogeneous Biocatalysis Laboratory at CIC biomaGUNE; Clara García-Gorro, Science Communication Manager at CIC biomaGUNE. Self-sufficient heterogeneous biocatalysts are emerging as powerful tools for greener, more efficient chemical manufacturing. By cleverly combining […]

Circular economy could make demolition a thing of the past

Circular economy could make demolition a thing of the past

Materials

By Invited Researcher

Authors: José Manuel Cabrero, Catedrático. Estructuras Arquitectónicas y Construcción con Madera. Cátedra Madera Onesta, Universidad de Navarra and Rayder Willian Leonardo Laura, Científico investigador, Universidad de Navarra Most of us are already quite comfortable recycling our household waste. In Spain, for instance, millions of tonnes of packaging are processed every year, but did you know […]

Vascular permeability in the bone marrow and drug response in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Vascular permeability in the bone marrow and drug response in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Biomedicine

By Invited Researcher

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a hematological malignancy arising from the occurrence of genetic mutations in hematopoietic progenitors, which cause a blockage in the maturation and an uncontrolled growth of leukemic blasts in the bone marrow (BM). The resistance to current therapies and relapse remain a major clinical challenge. For this reason, a novel approach […]

Bullying and mental health

Bullying and mental health

Psychology

By Invited Researcher

The relationship between experiences of bullying and serious mental health problems has been at the center of scientific debate for years. However, it is only in the last decade that longitudinal studies have made it possible to go beyond correlation and explore the direction and persistence of these effects over time. Two pieces of research—an […]

Why our universe is made up of matter and not antimatter

Why our universe is made up of matter and not antimatter

Particle physicsPhysics

By Invited Researcher

Why didn’t the universe annihilate itself moments after the big bang? A new finding at Cern on the French-Swiss border brings us closer to answering this fundamental question about why matter dominates over its opposite – antimatter. Author: William Barter, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, University of Edinburgh Much of what we see in everyday life […]