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email article Public health scientists and officials shared information about ways to increase uptake of COVID-19 vaccines and reduce vaccine hesitancy, during a hearing of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology on Friday. The key focus included strategies to eliminate hassles; leverage effective, targeted messaging; and engage "trusted communicators." Committee chair Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) warned that vaccine hesitancy could delay the U.S. recovery from the CO...

News Join our Community of 625,000+ Engineers Register News Infineon Joins Coalition of German Universities Targeting Quantum Processors February 11, 2021 by Luke James A band of European researchers—now including Infineon—believe theyve pinpointed an area of hardware research that may unlock further quantum computing advancements: a processor based on superconducting qubits. Quantum computers and the processors that power them promise to efficiently solve problems that current computers c...

New Process to Use Sewage Sludge to Optimize Building Materials Written by AZoBuildFeb 11 2021 At South Ural State University, a team of researchers has optimized building materials with advantages for the environment. Samples of the ceramics obtained by adding sewage sludge. Image Credit: Danil Rakhimov. Sludge from water treatment plants was added by the researchers to the clay batch, achieving durable ceramics, which can be manufactured on an industrial scale. The study findings have been re...

Professor from Tel Aviv University receives 2021 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in Israel Professor Yossi Yovel, Associate Professor of Zoology at Tel Aviv University (TAU), is one of three Laureates to be awarded 2021 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in Israel by the Blavatnik Family Foundation, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Professor Yovel was recognized for his work in the area of Life Sciences and will receive $100,000. Profe...

Nevada Cannabis Summit Sheds Light on CDC’s Cannabis Strategy Unit Public health and law enforcement officials, as well as lawmakers and academics, gathered virtually to discuss cannabis and vaping policies in Nevada and other states. Published on Jan 26, 2021 6:55AM ESTUnited States Share this: A major cannabis summit in Nevada brought together regulators, lawmakers, and law enforcement from across the US, all with the common goal of improving cannabis and vaping policies.  The summit was h...

3 1Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain 2ARTIS International, St. Michaels, MD, United States 3Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States 4Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Universidad de Almería, Almería, Spain 5Department of Theory and Analisys of Comunication, Faculty of Sciences of Information, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid,...

Date Time Rising star awards for leading scientists Two Edinburgh scientists have been recognised as rising stars in their fields after winning prestigious awards. Professors Steve Brusatte and Sinéad Farrington have been announced as recipients of 2021 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK. They have secured two of only three Laureates awarded to scientists in the UK. Each will receive a £76,000 prize. Global recognition Now in their fourth year, the awards – the largest cash pri...

Engineering and medicine to cease all actives on a study to determine whether people living in the coal mining sites are more prone to certain diseases like cancer. >> the evidence we have seen so far in over two dozen articles and studies have shown higher cancer rates, higher rates of heart and cardiovascular disease. >>. >> reporter: the agency said it put a hold on this study because of this changing budget situation. the study focussed on four states, west virginia, virginia, kentucky and t...