SCIENCE

This session is part of our Women's History Month celebration! Scientists, researchers, and collections managers are behind the scenes every day, uncovering new information and taking care of our collection. From collections care to field work, and dinosaurs to ecology, there’s a world of science to explore.
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2 years ago Read more at Field Museum

Pope Francis said the entire patrimony of human knowledge should be employed as a means of overcoming conflicts in a nonviolent manner and combating poverty and the new forms of slavery. The Pontifical Academies of Sciences and of Social Sciences jointly sponsored a workshop March 14-15 on the knowledge of Indigenous peoples.
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2 years ago Read more at National Catholic Reporter

The 61st annual Goddard Space Science Symposium will take place March 20-22, 2024, at the Brendan Iribe Center on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park. The symposium will also be streamed online. The theme of this year’s event – “Space 2040: Pathways to the Future” – leverages NASA’s plans for the coming decades.
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2 years ago Read more at NASA

A cure for hot flashes might finally be in reach, according to Erin Blakemore. Up to 80 percent of women experience this debilitating symptom during menopause. The drop in estrogen affects a particular bundle of neurons that regulate temperature. Now companies are testing drugs that would block those neurons.
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2 years ago Read more at National Geographic

Katalin Karikó has been selected by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego as the 2023 winner of the Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest. She is best known for her research on messenger RNA — the genetic material that tells our bodies how to make proteins — and the development of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. The public is invited to attend the award ceremony and a presentation.
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2 years ago Read more at University of California San Diego

In new footage, the quadruped, called 'ANYmal,' hoists itself on top of a 3-foot-tall (1 meter) wooden crate, before jumping a gap of the same distance between two large wooden crates. The machine learned maneuvers including walking, crouching, climbing and jumping — which scientists say could one day help it navigate physical hurdles during search and rescue missions. Most robot dogs, such as Boston Dynamics' Spot, lack
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2 years ago Read more at Livescience.com

Maine Big Night is a community science nonprofit founded by UMaine Ph.D. candidate Greg LeClair. The project has recorded more than 21,000 amphibians at 349 locations across Maine from Kittery to Fort Kent. Volunteers may join a certified person’s monitoring site without additional training.
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2 years ago Read more at University of Maine

Dr. Shawn Chen, Office of Science, Practical Science for the Future of Clean Energy 03.14.24 | 5 min read | Text by Zo Brouns This series of interviews spotlights scientists working across the country to implement the Department of Energy’s massive efforts. Dr. Chen grew up in countries where energy was front of mind for his communities. With a PhD in materials science, he started studying how to build stronger, better, and longer lasting batteries – and figure out how to make films that use less energy
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2 years ago Read more at Federation of American Scientists

a research group led by Prof. Wu Chengtie from the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed a multicellular scaffold based on inorganic bioceramics to achieve immunomodulation and integrated regeneration in tendon-to-bone injuries. Restriction of motor activity due to loss of natural structure is a major cause of decreased life quality.
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2 years ago Read more at Phys.org

The Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences is holding a workshop to explore how the knowledge of aboriginal communities and the scientific world can, together, meet major global challenges. Pope Francis urges governments “to acknowledge and respect the rich diversity within the great human family” The meeting has drawn representatives from the world’s Indigenous communities and leading scientists with the expressed aim of building a bridge between their respective systems of knowledge.
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2 years ago Read more at AsiaNews