Marine passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) has provided petabytes of data, whose proper utilization is necessary to promote species protection and lower noise in protected places. Recently, a Big Earth Data study proposes the Sound Cooperative (SoundCoop) project for efficient information extraction from marine PAM big data for military, management, industry, and science applications. This work illustrates the value of harnessing big data to  enable informed decisions and scientific progress.

The arogos skipper is an endangered butterfly that was once common throughout much of the United States but has since been reduced to a few small populations. Researchers are studying a population in Florida to learn more about its life cycle and create tailored conservation recommendations for land managers. 

Michael Rout has spent decades studying the molecular machinery that controls all traffic in and out of the cell’s nucleus. His research could lead to new treatments for cancer and viral diseases.

Purdue University researcher Emily Dykhuizen explores how cancer takes advantage of the machinery that surrounds DNA, enabling some of its most pernicious powers, like the ability to evade the immune system, resist conventional therapies, and spread through metastasis. Her work helps researchers develop better immunotherapies against cancer.

When Sandia scientists Ryan Davis and Nathan Bays set out to find a better way to absorb and degrade PFAS in water sources, they kept running into the same issue: Detecting the chemicals in samples took too long.

So, they came up with their own solution.

They’ve developed a faster, cheaper way to test for PFAS.

Florida International University (FIU) researchers have developed a quantum-safe encryption system designed to protect digital content from the next generation of cyberattacks.

The University of Barcelona is consolidating its position at the forefront of European research thanks to the strategic project “VISI-ON-BRAIN: Cutting-edge Human In Vitro and In Silico Biomedical Tools on Brain Disorders”. This is a training and research programme involving 15 PhD researchers focused on developing new-generation human models to advance the study of complex brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease. The key point of the initiative is the paradigm shift it proposes, as the study is carried out leaving behind the animal model and seeking a more ethical science, with experimental (in vitro) and computational (in silico) models.

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