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LLNL Three Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory postdoctoral appointees have been selected to attend the 70 th annual Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting in Germany this June. The three selected to attend the meeting are, from left: Wei Jia Ong, Matthew Edwards and Oluwatomi (Tomi) Akindele. Three Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) postdoctoral appointees have been selected to attend the 70 th annual Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting in Germany this June thanks to the University of Californi...

Boston University Social Innovation on Drug Resistance Program Advocate Member Drug resistance is an inevitable biological process driven by evolution, but made worse by human behavior, threatening to usher in a post-antibiotic era. While the new products created from the Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerators (CARB-X) preclinical product development support are an important step in preventing that; an equally important challenge is to understand the impact of hu...

First Air Quality Profile of Two Sub-Saharan African Cities Finds Troubling News Pollution Up to 5 Times Over International Guidelines Dan Westervelt setting up a low-cost air quality monitor. Ambient air pollution is a global public health crisis, causing more than 4.9 million premature deaths per year around the world. In Africa, it has surpassed AIDS as the leading cause of premature death. According to one study, air pollution—specifically, fine particulate matter (PM2.5)—may cause at l...

Author:  February 9, 2021 This article continues Climate.gov’s series of interviews with current and former fellows in the NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Program about the nature of their research funded by NOAA and what career and education highlights preceded and followed it. Over the past 30 years, the Postdoctoral Program, funded by NOAA Climate Program Office, has hosted over 200 fellows. The Program’s purpose is to help create and train the next generation of research...

Auburn professor Bodewits’ work included in NASA’s Hubble timeline Published: February 17, 2021 Decrease Font Size Font Size Increase Font Size Article body NASA recently included the work of Dennis Bodewits—an associate professor in Auburn University’s Department of Physics in the College of Sciences and Mathematics—in a timeline highlighting the history of the revolutionary Hubble Space Telescope. Bodewits used the telescope to study the composition of Comet 2I/Bori...

Chinas rover discovers elongated milestone rock sticking out on the far side of the moon that may have formed after repeated meteor impacts Chinas Yutu 2 rover recently woke from a 14-day slumber on the moon during the lunar night After powering back on, the rover spotted a milestone rock on the surface that experts say is unusual It is an elongated, sharp rock sticking out from the surface on the far side that formed from meteor impacts 

The mission’s Yutu-2 rover stumbled across an unexpected shard-shaped rock, excitedly described by the team as a "milestone”. It seems to have a shard-like shape and is sticking out of the ground. Thats definitely unusual Dr Dan Moriarty In a Yutu 2 diary published by Our Space, Chinese language science outreach channel affiliated with the China National Space Administration (CNSA), mission scientists announced the elongated rock required closer inspection. Despite the lunar anomaly not lo...

December 21, 2020 at 10:41am The Distinguished Postdoctoral Program in FIU’s College of Arts, Sciences & Education is paving the way for up-and-coming researchers to launch impactful academic careers. The globally competitive program supports promising early-career postdoctoral scholars working and conducting research across any of the disciplines in the college from the natural and social sciences to education and the humanities. “We wanted to create an opportunity for early career scholar...