Latest News Releases 14 April

Dr Kelly Dunning is the Timberline Professor of Sustainable Tourism and Outdoor Recreation at the University of Wyoming. She leads the Wildlife & Wilderness Recreation Lab that is focused on biodiversity conservation and the human dimensions of natural resources in tourism prone areas.

In a new Frontiers in Conservation Science article, she, together with co-authors, discussed the politicization of wildlife management. The team analyzed hundreds of documents to track the case of grizzlies being taken off or staying on the list of endangered species. In this editorial, Dunning highlights the issues that come with wildlife management becoming ever more political.

Why does dementia affect more women than men? To help solve this mystery, researchers uncovered a new risk factor: age of menopause onset.

University of Oxford researchers have helped overturn the popular theory that water on Earth originated from asteroids bombarding its surface;

Scientists have analysed a meteorite analogous to the early Earth to understand the origin of hydrogen on our planet.

The research team demonstrated that the material which built our planet was far richer in hydrogen than previously thought.

The findings, which support the theory that the formation of habitable conditions on Earth did not rely on asteroids hitting the Earth, have been published today (Wednesday 16 April) in the journal Icarus.

Mycobacteria are the world’s most deadly bacteria—causing infectious diseases including tuberculosis (TB), which alone kills more than one million people each year. New drugs to fight these infections are desperately needed, as the number of cases of antibiotic-resistant mycobacteria is on the rise. Scientists at Scripps Research and the University of Pittsburgh have now used advanced imaging techniques to provide a detailed look at how a tiny virus, known as a phage, invades Mycobacteria.

A new study reveals a strong connection between Arctic warming and the development of a rare thunderstorm that came closer to the North Pole than any previously recorded.

A new study provides the first comprehensive look at how baseline updates influence the detection of extreme climate events across China.

When Julian Lozos visited the site of the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes two days after the event, he noticed something strange. Pebble- to boulder-sized rocks clearly had been moved by the earthquakes—but there were no signs of dragging or shearing on the desert ground.

An ingestible gas-sensing capsule that provides real-time insights into gut health has moved closer to market with RMIT University transferring IP ownership to medical device company Atmo Biosciences. 

Scientists have unveiled a new food source designed to sustain honey bee colonies indefinitely without natural pollen.

Published April 16 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the research from Washington State University and APIX Biosciences NV in Wingene, Belgium details successful trials where nutritionally stressed colonies, deployed for commercial crop pollination in Washington state, thrived on the new food source.

“Do we see colors the same way?” is a fundamentally human question and one of great importance in research into the human mind. While impossible to answer at present, researchers from the University of Tokyo and from Monash University in Australia take steps to answering it using a method that can map the experiences of colors between individuals, including those with colorblindness.