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New Hedera Token Service Offers Native Token Issuance and Configurability Without Smart Contracts HTS Enables Enterprises to Embrace the Disruption of Tokenization in a Secure, Performant Manner News provided by Share this article DALLAS, Feb. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --  Hedera Hashgraph, the enterprise-grade distributed public ledger, today announced the public availability of the Hedera Token Service (HTS), a new Hedera network service that offers users the ability to issue and configure tokens...

Freepik   | Photo Credit: Freepik Greater citations, wider reach, and visibility are a few of the many benefits that accompany such articles. Over the past decade, there has been a rising clamour for more accessibility of scholarly journals. Those available in print are subscription based making it challenging for other researchers to access, verify, reproduce, cite or utilise research papers, further resulting in restricting the community from engaging in multiple aspects of research. With ...

A new study by scientists at Utrecht University and the United Nations University concludes that about half of global wastewater is treated, rather than the previous estimate of 20%. Despite this promising finding, the authors warn that treatment rates in developing countries are still very low. The study and its dataset were published Open Access in the journal

 E-Mail Heidelberg/Germany and Cambridge/USA, 4 February 2021 - EMBO Press announces the appointment of immunologist Facundo Batista, PhD, as Chief Editor of The EMBO Journal. Facundo Batista, who is a Professor at Harvard Medical School and the first Associate Director of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Cambridge/USA, takes up the appointment with immediate effect. He takes over from Bernd Pulverer, Head of Scientific Publishing at EMBO after a decade in the role, who will lead ...

"We will further sharpen the unique profile EMBO Reports has among the EMBO Press portfolio to ensure the journal optimally serves the scientific community", says Pulverer. "This includes developing the scope, editorial criteria and format of the journal to address its global readership and to engage better with early career researchers. We will hone selection criteria to efficiently share the research that is most valuable to the broader scientific community - such as welcoming orthogonal app...

February 2, 2021 cOAlition S is pleased to announce that the Foundation for Science and Technology of Portugal (FCT) is the latest national funding agency for science, research, and technology to join the coalition and demonstrate its commitment to the realisation of full and immediate Open Access. Portugal’s forward-thinking approach on Open Access is widely acknowledged across Europe and FCT’s vision is to ensure that knowledge generated by scientific research is used fully for ec...

Medical leaders are concerned about increasing pressures on health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic following the suicide of Dr. Karine Dion, a 35-year-old emergency physician in Granby, Que. Described by her loved ones as an incredible woman, Dion had been practising medicine for a decade and was on her second mental health leave when she died. Dion’s husband, David Daigle, says she was exhausted from the stress of the pandemic. According to Dr. Caroline Gerin-Lajoie, executive vice...

University of Nairobi Ranked Top University in East Africa Stock image of University of Nairobi Towers. The University of Nairobi has been ranked the top institution in East Africa and 13 in Africa by a new Webometrics Ranking. Makerere University in Uganda was ranked 14th in Africa right behind UoN in East Africa, with Egerton University in Kenya ranking 37th in Africa and third in the region. Eight Kenyan universities made it to the top 200 list in the new ranking of universities in Afric...

5 Min Read LONDON (Reuters) - Britain should replicate New York’s “blank cheque” listings to boost London’s appeal as a global financial centre after Brexit, London Stock Exchange Chief Executive David Schwimmer said. FILE PHOTO: The London Stock Exchange Group offices are seen in the City of London, Britain, December 29, 2017. REUTERS/Toby Melville After cementing its $27 billion acquisition of data and analytics company Refinitiv on Friday, the LSE is likely to play a central role in ...

Image: Study lead author Dr Elizabeth Peach with colleague Kerryanne Tokmun at Nonga Hospital, PNG A major new study by Burnet Institute...