These are called “megadroughts”, and they’re likely to occur again in coming decades. However, climate change is putting places that have previously endured megadroughts – such as Australia – at...
In June-July, the Ministry of the Interior conducted an online survey to assess the situation and need for different services of Ukrainians who have fled to Finland. The responses do...
Alzheimer’s disease: Reduced signals in the brain’s forgotten cellsWhy does it become harder to concentrate when you have Alzheimer’s disease? The explanation is perhaps that the signals transmitted from glial...
Dr Anders Bach-Mortensen, Carlsberg Foundation Visiting Fellow from Oxford’s Department for Social Policy and Intervention, says, ‘It is well known, huge profits are being made by companies running these homes,...
Pacific Island nations suffered severe depopulation from introduced diseases as a consequence of contact with European vessels, a new study from The Australian National University (ANU) shows. The research, published...
Richard “Dick” Eckaus, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, emeritus, in the Department of Economics, died on Sept. 11 in Boston. His father, Julius Eckaus, was a tailor, and his...
Using a paper-based assay that is coated with chemicals that bind to antibodies in the blood sample, the test kit is low-cost, fast and has up to 93 percent accuracy....
MIT junior Ian Chen and Kyle Markland ’22 placed third in ASM Materials Education Foundation’s 2022 Undergraduate Design Competition. ASM Materials Education Foundation is the charitable division of materials engineering...
FORWARD, the campaign for UBC, will raise $3 billion to benefit students and researchers across both campuses, and activate the power of global alumni by doubling alumni engagement. “Universities have...
UNSW Sydney researchers have been awarded more than $23 million in federal government funding for health and medical research. Dean of UNSW Medicine & Health Vlado Perkovic applauded the researchers...