During the Fall 2020 semester, students in the NYU Gallatin course “NYC Coastlines, Past: Present, and Future” became the only citizen scientists to collect oyster monitoring data from the Hudson River for The River Project’s entire 2020 season, which suffered from a lack of volunteers due to the pandemic. The course, which […]
Day: 20 January 2021
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has seen a wide variety of untested off-the-shelf COVID treatments suggested – from Trump’s infamous disinfectants to more traditional herbal remedies, the idea of a simple protection from the deadly disease has proven an appealing one. Amongst these suggestions though, it’s vitamin D that has gained […]
How can hydrogen make a crucial contribution to environmentally friendly mobility? How can a deeper understanding of our immune system lead to new treatments for infections, tumours and autoimmune diseases? And how can new polymer materials be developed which are suitable for use on and in the human body? These […]
One of the UK’s largest academic prizes is being launched at Heriot-Watt University today, coinciding with the institution’s 200th anniversary of its founding in Scotland. The inaugural Panmure House Prize is a $75,000 award to promote and encourage pioneering research in long-term investment to fund radical innovation. The research area is in the […]
The TU/e Department of Applied Physics has won the Diversity Prize 2020 offered by the Netherlands Physical Society (NNV). Thus, in the eyes of the association, the department is the physics institution most successfully applying an open diversity policy. “Not enough women candidates? In physics that is bullshit,” says Dean […]
Brexit and Beyond, a new report from academic think tank UK in a Changing Europe, underlines the challenges and opportunities that confront the United Kingdom now it has left the European Union. The report brings together some of the country’s leading social scientists, who have written pieces addressing a swathe […]
KFU and charity foundation Rusfond are launching a joint project in children’s healthcare. In 2020, KFU’s Center for Precision and Regenerative Medicine obtained a pediatric license from the Ministry of Health of Tatarstan. The Center’s Neuro-Rehabilitation Unit plans to tackle this new task. This field, together with oncology and regenerative […]
The criminal law in relation to HIV transmission has not kept up with the science, according to a team of researchers based at Oxford Brookes, Northumbria and Kingston universities. Alex Powell, Teaching Fellow in Law at Oxford Brookes University said: “The criminal law has continued to frame HIV in terms […]
