Techno Man
Extent of human encroachment into world’s protected areas revealed
Largest study yet to compare protected with 'matched' unprotected land finds 'significantly higher' increases in human pressure -- primarily through agriculture -- in protected...
Salt helps proteins move on down the road
Chemists match models and experiments to see how salt modifies surface interactions in chromatography used to separate valuable drug proteins. The research could be...
Nutritious foods have lower environmental impact than unhealthy foods
Widespread adaptation of healthier diets would markedly reduce the environmental impact of agriculture and food production. For the first time, researchers have tied the...
Which came first: Brain size or drinking propensity?
Contrary to the belief that drinking can literally shrink one's brain, a new study that includes researchers suggests that a small brain might be...
New method promises advances in 3D printing, manufacturing and biomedical applications
In a development offering great promise for additive manufacturing, researchers have created a method to precisely create droplets using a jet of liquid. The...
Gabapentinoids appear increasingly to be prescribed, off-label, for cancer pain
Between 2005 and 2015, as the opioid crisis in America came into focus, prescriptions for gabapentinoid medications -- gabapentin and pregabalin -- to adults...
Risk assessment tools lead to fewer incarcerations without jeopardizing public safety
A sweeping study looking at an extensive collection of data -- involving more than a million offenders at 30 different Canadian and US research...
Scientists synthesized light with new intrinsic chirality to tell mirror molecules apart
Light is the fastest way to distinguish right- and left-handed chiral molecules, which has important applications in chemistry and biology. However, ordinary light only...
Climate engineering: International meeting reveals tensions
At this point, the greatest danger of climate engineering may be how little is known about where countries stand on these potentially planet-altering technologies....
ESO telescope reveals what could be the smallest dwarf planet yet in the solar...
Astronomers using ESO's SPHERE instrument at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed that the asteroid Hygiea could be classified as a dwarf planet....
