Credit: CC0 Public Domain Staffordshire University is leading a project to better support students with caring responsibilities alongside their studies. 1 in 8 adults provide unpaid care for family and friends, according to Carers UK. Yet there is limited data about the numbers of carers attending university and their experiences […]
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Physical Activity Could Be an Evolutionary Adaptation for Grandparenting
Lifelong physical activity can help our span of good health run almost the length of a lifetime. In this way, remaining active later in life promotes humans’ wherewithal to support the survival of their grandchildren—and their genetic lineage into future generations—say the authors of an essay published this week in […]
Inexplicable Phenomena Spur Pentagon to Launch New UFO Investigation Force
The Pentagon is building a new business office to investigate unknown flying objects (UFOs) amid worries that immediately after broad probes it are not able to reveal mysterious sightings in the vicinity of highly sensitive navy spots. Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks, operating with the US director of […]
How moles change into melanoma — ScienceDaily
Moles and melanomas are both pores and skin tumors that come from the very same cell referred to as melanocytes. The difference is that moles are typically harmless, when melanomas are cancerous and usually fatal without the need of treatment. In a research revealed currently in eLife Magazine, Robert Judson-Torres, […]
Survey shows food-insecure students more likely to fail, leave school
Credit: Pexels A survey conducted by a team of researchers from The University of New Mexico finds that students who are food-insecure are more likely to fail or withdraw from classes or drop out of college entirely. The survey was done by lead author Heather Mechler, UNM Office of Institutional […]
Great Apes’ Biggest Threat Is Human Activity, Not Habitat Loss
When ecologist Hjalmar Kühl first visited the Republic of Congo in 2003, deep in the forest, he met chimpanzees whose curiosity gave away that they had never seen a human before. “You’d try to move away, and they’d come closer,” he says. “They’d just sit there watching us.” Today it’s […]
Scientists Discover Unknown Plant Species Growing on Australia’s Sacred Uluru
Scientists have made what is being described as a once-in-a-lifetime discovery, finding a new plant species on the giant rock of Uluru in Australia. What’s more, the fig has been hiding in plain sight for years. Ficus desertorum, or the desert fig, is the name that’s been given to the […]
Outcomes for hospitalized COVID-19 patients taking immunosuppressive medications similar to non-immunosuppressed patients, study finds — ScienceDaily
A large, nationwide study of COVID-19 cases led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has found that people taking medications that suppress the immune system — for example, to prevent transplant rejection or to treat cancer — overall do not have a higher risk of […]
Team OSCAR-QUBE awarded the Hans von Muldau Team Award at IAC
Agency 09/11/2021 205 views 12 likes Back in September of this year, the OSCAR-QUBE team was celebrating a successful hardware integration into the ISS’s ICE Cubes facility by ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet. This was done in part of the ESA Education Office’s OYT! programme, in which the students must propose […]
Children facing increased difficulties returning to in-person school, according to child study expert
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Although research data on the current school year is incomplete, a Virginia Tech child psychologist points to significant increases in anxiety, depression, irritability and aggression in children. “We have definitely seen a huge increase in referrals for assessments for academic and social-emotional concerns in children and […]
How an Award-Winning Illustrator Weaves Emotion into Science
Lots of watch the scientific procedure as a device to preclude human feelings from influencing the lookup for reality. But those people thoughts are essential when it will come time to support men and women link to the science, or so indicates award-profitable illustrator and visible artist Fatinha Ramos. The […]