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Newswise: Implementing ancient agricultural practices to confront 
modern-day challenges of water scarcity and food insecurity
Release date: 2-Dec-2024 7:55 PM EST
Implementing ancient agricultural practices to confront modern-day challenges of water scarcity and food insecurity
Bar-Ilan University

A new study exploring traditional sunken groundwater-harvesting agroecosystems in coastal and inland sand (SGHAS) bodies of Israel, Iran, Egypt, Algeria, Gaza, and the Atlantic coast of Iberia offers fresh perspectives on ancient agricultural techniques that could inform modern sustainability practices. The research, which combines geospatial analysis, archaeological findings, and historical documentation, sheds light on the innovative use of water-harvesting and soil-enrichment technologies developed in the early Islamic period and their continued relevance to contemporary agricultural challenges.

Newswise:Video Embedded gps-alternative-for-drone-navigation-using-visual-data-from-stars
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Release date: 2-Dec-2024 7:50 PM EST
GPS alternative for drone navigation using visual data from stars
University of South Australia

A surge in GPS jamming attacks in drone warfare has inspired Australian researchers to develop a celestial navigation system that uses visual data from stars rather than relying on the global positioning system.

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Newswise: Tomorrow’s Promise, Today’s Roswell Park: Leaders Tackling the Biggest Priorities in Cancer Care and Treatment
Release date: 2-Dec-2024 3:50 PM EST
Tomorrow’s Promise, Today’s Roswell Park: Leaders Tackling the Biggest Priorities in Cancer Care and Treatment
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Roswell Park President and CEO Candace S. Johnson, PhD, today introduced the cancer center’s first Physician in Chief — and the slate of experts appointed to tackle the most pressing opportunities and challenges related to cancer treatment, outcomes and delivery of care.

Newswise: Researchers Use Vitamins to Decode Complex Interactions in the Soil Microbiome
Release date: 2-Dec-2024 3:15 PM EST
Researchers Use Vitamins to Decode Complex Interactions in the Soil Microbiome
Department of Energy, Office of Science

In a pair of publications, researchers investigated how different species of microbes interact with one another and exchange resources such as vitamins. The studies focused on corrinoids, the vitamin B12 family of nutrients. Many bacteria in the environment cannot produce these chemicals. The studies demonstrated that the presence of corrinoids can influence how individual soil bacteria grow in the laboratory and how they survive and coexist in soil.

Newswise: New study links extreme heat to increased risk of postpartum depression in SoCal
Release date: 2-Dec-2024 3:10 PM EST
New study links extreme heat to increased risk of postpartum depression in SoCal
University of California, Irvine

A cohort of mothers in Southern California that were exposed to higher temperature during the postpartum period was associated with an increased risk for postpartum depression (PPD).

Newswise: New Gene Drive Reverses Insecticide Resistance in Pests… Then Disappears
Release date: 2-Dec-2024 2:20 PM EST
New Gene Drive Reverses Insecticide Resistance in Pests… Then Disappears
University of California San Diego

UC San Diego geneticists have developed a gene drive-based solution to the widespread problem of insecticide resistance. In an effort to protect valuable crops, the researchers created an “e-Drive” that reverses insecticide resistance and then disappears from the insect population.

Newswise: How a Middle Schooler Found a New Compound in a Piece of Goose Poop
Released: 2-Dec-2024 2:15 PM EST
How a Middle Schooler Found a New Compound in a Piece of Goose Poop
American Chemical Society (ACS)

Through a partnership with a nearby university, the middle schoolers collected and analyzed environmental samples to find new antibiotic candidates. One unique sample, goose poop collected at a local park, had a bacterium that showed antibiotic activity and contained a novel compound that slowed the growth of human melanoma and ovarian cancer cells in lab tests.

   
Released: 2-Dec-2024 1:55 PM EST
New Method Discovered for Controlling Molecular Patterns on Liquid Droplets
Bar-Ilan University

A team of researchers from Bar-Ilan University, in collaboration with researchers from Leiden University (The Netherlands) and Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), has uncovered a previously unknown phenomenon that could revolutionize the way we design materials at the molecular level. By unlocking a transformation between two types of structural defects on the surface of liquid droplets, the research opens new possibilities for controlling molecular patterns with unprecedented precision. This discovery has broad applications across a range of technologies, including vaccine design, the creation of self-assembling structures, and the synthesis of complex nanoparticles.

Newswise: Accelerating Climate Modeling with Generative AI
Released: 2-Dec-2024 1:50 PM EST
Accelerating Climate Modeling with Generative AI
University of California San Diego

The algorithms behind generative AI tools like DallE, when combined with physics-based data, can be used to develop better ways to model the Earth's climate. Computer scientists in Seattle and San Diego have now used this combination to create a model that is capable of predicting climate patterns over 100 years 25 times faster than the state of the art.


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