By Vijay Jayaraj For many worldwide, the decision of the United States Federal Reserve to get out of the network to ecologize the financial system (NGFS) is a sign that central banks can be forwarded in their main mandates: stabilize economies, control inflation and encourage growth. The development nations that need financial support for the…
I am sharing an update of my January 27 of the ProW message regarding the executive orders and the directives from the Federal Government of the United States and how they are affecting the members of AGU and the broader scientific community. We are requesting your opinion on how these federal directives have already impacted…
Dr. Chris Macdonald has developed a free virtual reality platform that helps users become qualified and safe public speakers. March 15 was World speech day, a time to encourage and adopt to speak in public. However, for many, this can be a discouraging challenge, since speech anxiety and fear of public speaking are common. Fortunately,…
Chocolate infused with prebiotics, probiotics and flavorings could have improved health benefits. Credit: Smriti Gaur Many people will soon carry Easter baskets with chocolate sweets so that children and adults enjoy. By itself, black chocolate has health benefits, such as antioxidants that neutralize harmful free radicals. And a report in ACS Food Science & Technology…
In Nature neuroscienceInvestigators at the UCONN School of Medicine have revealed a new scientific track that could unlock the key cell path that leads to devastating neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, and progressive damage to the front and temporal lobes of the brain in frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) and iclerous amyotrophic disease of the associated…
For the first time, researchers have transformed light into a “‘Supersolid”, a strange state of matter that is solid and liquid at the same time. Although scientists have made supersolids with atoms before, this is the first instance of attaching light and subject to create a supersolid and opens new doors to study condensed physics,…
At the beginning of November 2024, I sat with some friends on the steps of the Library of Columbia University, feeling that the sun hit us with our summer shirts and dresses. It was a whopping 70 degrees Fahrenheit outside. “It is not supposed to be so warm,” we all agree. My little sister called…
In the universe very early, there were a large number of quarks, leptones, antiquarks and antileptones of all species. After only a small fraction of a second has elapsed since the Hot Big Bang, most of these antimatter pairs of the subject are annihilated, leaving an excess of very small matter over the antimatter. How…
Seven new guanidine derivatives and a new isolated hypoxantine derivative Abstract Twelve guanidine derivatives (1–12), including seven new compounds (martensiiagms a – g, g, 1–7), a new hypoxantine derivative (martensiiagm h, 13), and 15 known compounds (14–28) were isolated from the whole body of Buthus martensi Karsch and identified by data analysis. Subsequent biological evaluations…
Even during one of the largest mass extinction events on earth, where heat waves kill most of the earth’s species, there was at least one survival oasis. The results suggest that there may have been protection focuses throughout the earth, challenging the notion that heat affected life on the planet uniformly, according to a paper…