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Natural Resource Today Weekly - Issue #21

Natural Resource Today Weekly - Issue #21

Natural Resource Today
January 22, 2023

The most significant scientific findings you should know in less than 2 minutes.

Research News

Rice University:

In a recent study published in the journal Nature, researchers provide insight into organic carbon buried in the global ocean.

Climate warming reduces organic carbon burial beneath oceans

A first-of-its-kind study suggests climate warming could reduce organic carbon burial and increase the amount of carbon that’s returned to the atmosphere.

https://news.rice.edu/news/2023/climate-warming-reduces-organic-carbon-burial-beneath-oceans

Brown University:

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Computational Science, researchers have detailed how machine learning could be used to predict extreme events.

Study shows how machine learning could predict rare disastrous events, like earthquakes or pandemics

Researchers from Brown and MIT suggest how scientists can circumvent the need for massive data sets to forecast extreme events with the combination of an advanced machine learning system and sequential sampling techniques.

https://www.brown.edu/news/2022-12-19/extreme-events

University of Helsinki:

New research provides insight into genome evolution of hybrid populations of ant species from Finland. The study is published in the journal PLOS Biology.

Ants shed light to predicting evolution after hybridisation | University of Helsinki

Researchers at the University of Helsinki found that after multiple hybridisation events between two wood ant species distinct hybrid populations evolved independently towards the same direction, suggesting hybridisation is predictable.

https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/evolution/ants-shed-light-predicting-evolution-after-hybridisation

Harvard University:

In a recent study published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, scientists have developed a cell therapy to kill cancer.

Killing cancer with cancer

Scientists at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital have developed a cancer vaccine to simultaneously kill and prevent brain cancer in advanced mouse models.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/01/in-mouse-model-scientists-develop-cancer-vaccine-that-kills-brain-tumors/

Massachusetts Institute of Technology:

Researchers have developed a new approach to monitor nuclear reactor component conditions. Their findings are published in the journal Acta Materialia.

A new way to assess radiation damage in reactors

Researchers developed a quick, inexpensive, hands-off test to monitor the condition of certain components of nuclear power plants, to ensure that damage from heat and radiation won’t lead to unsafe cracking or embrittlement.

https://news.mit.edu/2023/nuclear-power-reactors-testing-0110

University of Oxford:

New research provides better understanding of compound drought–heatwave (CDHW) events. The study is published in the journal Nature Sustainability.

Compound extreme heat and drought will hit 90% of world population – Oxford study | University of Oxford

More than 90% of the world’s population is projected to face increased risks from the compound impacts of extreme heat and drought, potentially widening social inequalities as well as undermining the natural world’s ability to reduce CO2 emissions in the atmosphere - according to a study from Oxford’s School of Geography

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-01-06-compound-extreme-heat-and-drought-will-hit-90-world-population-oxford-study

Georgia Institute of Technology:

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers have developed a new nanoelectronics platform based on graphene.

At the Edge of Graphene-Based Electronics | News Center

A pressing quest in the field of nanoelectronics is the search for a material that could replace silicon. Graphene has seemed promising for decades. But its potential faltered along the way, due to damaging processing methods and the lack of a new electronics paradigm to embrace it. With silicon nearly maxed out in its ability to accommodate faster computing, the next big nanoelectronics platform is needed now more than ever.

https://news.gatech.edu/news/2022/12/21/edge-graphene-based-electronics

Stanford University:

In a recent study published in the journal Cell Reports Medicine, scientists have described a new blood test that can distinguish bacterial from non-bacterial infections.

New blood test to identify infections could reduce global antibiotic overuse

A diagnostic test developed by Stanford Medicine scientists can separate bacterial and viral infections with 90% accuracy, the first to meet standards set by the World Health Organization.

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2022/12/antibiotics-test-bacteria-virus.html

University of New South Wales:

Researchers provide new insight into gastrulation. Their study is published in the journal Advanced Science.

Scientists use materials to make stem cells behave like human embryos

https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/scientists-use-materials-make-stem-cells-behave-human-embryos

University of Toronto:

In a new study published in the journal Science, researchers provide better understanding of divergent adaptation in vertebrates.

Most species evolve by adapting to similar, large-scale environmental pressures, study finds

Since the days of Charles Darwin, evolutionary biologists have widely believed that most new species form because they’ve adapted to different environments – but a new University of Toronto study suggests otherwise.

https://www.utoronto.ca/news/most-species-evolve-adapting-similar-large-scale-environmental-pressures-study-finds

Call for Papers

Applied Sciences - Special Issue “Wastewater, Solid Waste and Treatment Technologies”

Deadline: 20 February 2023

The Applied Sciences, an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on all aspects of applied natural sciences, has a call for papers (Special Issue “Wastewater, Solid Waste and Treatment Technologies”).

Find More:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/WP0FUF4GQT