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researchers from the University of Copenhagen used a statistical analysis tool called Mendelian randomisation (MR) This looks for causal relationships between exposures and outcomes (in this case, smoking and belly fat) they applied this tool to the results from different genetic studies on smoking exposure and body fat distribution. These were large European ancestry studies: a study on smoking involving 1.2 million people who had just started smoking.
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2 years ago Read more at BBC Science Focus Magazine

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2 years ago Read more at EurekAlert

Air Force Office of Scientific Research awarded a UCI materials science team $4 million for a three-year project to perfect the use of microscopic life-forms in extraction of rare earth elements. The group is looking for ways to employ microbes as miners in extreme conditions in remote environments, including the moon, Mars and asteroids.
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2 years ago Read more at UCI News

Haining Du entered the Political Science Ph.D. program at Michigan State University in fall of 2017 to study International Relations and Comparative Politics. Before joining the program, he was a middle school teacher in Shanghai. His current research interests are domestic politics and international behavior, authoritarian politics, and political culture.
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2 years ago Read more at Political Science | Michigan State University

By 2050, over three-quarters (155 out of 204) of the world’s countries will have fertility rates so low that they will not be able to maintain their population size. Deaths will outnumber births, and there will be fewer and fewer people in the world. This is a global trend, but the pace differs from area to area. In rich countries, where fertility rates are already very low, rates will continue to decline.
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2 years ago Read more at EL PAÍS USA

Science for Sustainable Agriculture (SSA) has written to the cross-party Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Efra) committee, demanding an “urgent inquiry” into the impact of the government’s Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes. Defra says a recent impact assessment of the ELM scheme identifies “multiple risks to both food production and the environment from its ‘land sharing’ policies”.
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2 years ago Read more at FarmersWeekly

A recent study conducted by the University of Ottawa presents compelling evidence that challenges the traditional model of the universe, suggesting there may not be a place for dark matter within it. At the heart of this research is Rajendra Gupta, a distinguished physics professor at the Faculty of Science. This discovery highlights the notion that the forces of nature diminish over cosmic time and that light loses energy over vast distances.
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2 years ago Read more at Earth.com

Ten early-career researchers from Australia will be heading to Lindau, Germany this year to attend the prestigious Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. The annual event is dedicated to physics and will be held from 30 June to 5 July 2024. The Lindau SIEF–AAS Fellows will receive a grant to enable their attendance and to take part in the SIEF Research Innovation Tour in Berlin.
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2 years ago Read more at Australian Academy of Science

The University of Nebraska at Kearney is offering two new accelerated graduate programs. The 4+1 programs in exercise science and athletic training will save students time and money while maintaining the same academic standards UNK is known for. Nearly 200 undergraduate students are currently studying exercise science at UNK, with 66 focusing on athletic training.
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2 years ago Read more at KSNB

House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R-OK) and Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) expressing support for the proposed limits on unwanted emissions into the 23.6-24.0 GHz band. The committee has been a longstanding advocate of protecting the 23.6-24-GHz band which supports the integrity of global weather forecasting, satellite-based climate measurements, and ground-based radio astronomy observations. Out-of-band
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2 years ago Read more at House Committee on Science, Space and Technology