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Biotechnology Jul 22, 2024

Octopus and squid pigments enhance sunscreen without harming the environment, researchers say

When Northeastern graduate Camille Martin and associate professor Leila Deravi co-founded Seaspire, a skincare ingredients company inspired by pigment in octopus and squid, their goal was to create a product that is good ...

Environment Jul 22, 2024

Listening to the voices of those most affected by climate change

Researchers at McGill University recently supported the hosting of a major international conference on climate change to create space for the under-represented voices—and knowledge—of those most affected.

Environment Jul 22, 2024

Designing healthier cities with good bacteria

The urbanization of towns could be contributing to poor health outcomes in our communities, research from the University of Adelaide and Flinders University has found.

Education Jul 22, 2024

Researchers are exploring new ways to learn that make science more relevant to everyday life, and more fun

Frank Täufer, a scientific assistant at Campus Wiesengut—the University of Bonn's ecological teaching and research farm—asked a group of visiting 8-year-olds to speculate on why the rye plants in his field were all different ...

Plants & Animals Jul 22, 2024

Chimpanzees gesture back and forth quickly like in human conversations, researchers find

When people are having a conversation, they rapidly take turns speaking and sometimes even interrupt. Now, researchers who have collected the largest ever dataset of chimpanzee "conversations" have found that they communicate ...

Political science Jul 22, 2024

Five ways for governments to better tackle foreign disinformation

Responding to foreign disinformation poses many challenges. Recent revelations about foreign interference in Canada illustrate some of them.

Economics & Business Jul 22, 2024

What a 'right to disconnect' from work could look like in the UK

The UK's new government has promised to take action to "promote a positive work-life balance for all workers," and to prevent homes "turning into 24/7 offices". The risk of "always on" working has grown since the pandemic, ...

Plants & Animals Jul 22, 2024

Researchers work to change perception of weeds in Georgia

With ecology as common ground, Mario Bretfeld, Michael Blackwell, and Eric Duncan have taken on a bit of a marketing project. They want people to love weeds.

Plants & Animals Jul 22, 2024

Q&A with entomologist: Fewer bees and other pollinating insects lead to shrinking crops

Many plants, from crops to carnations, cannot bear fruit or reproduce without bees, beetles, butterflies and other insects to pollinate them. But the population of insect pollinators is dropping in the U.S., due in part to ...

Space Exploration Jul 22, 2024

NASA's Artemis II moon mission rocket core stage on way to Kennedy Space Center

The biggest piece of the puzzle to send humans on a trip around the moon for the first time in more than half a century is on its way to Kennedy Space Center.

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