2022

Freezing the soil is an effective tool for controlling the Mediterranean Tapinoma nigerrimum ant species. This invasive ant is causing serious problems in and around homes in more and more parts of the Netherlands.Researchers from…

The diagnosis and treatment of long COVID syndrome (LCS) is still very difficult, and there is only little knowledge about the factors causing accompanying symptoms. Researchers at the Joint Metabolome Facility of the University of Vienna…

The QLUSTER consortium comprises research groups from academia and industry spanning 7 countries of the EU and it is constituted as a collaborative network for promoting and advancing research in fundamentals and applications, for…

How did the complex organisms on Earth arise? This is one of the big open questions in biology. A collaboration between the working groups of Christa Schleper at the University of Vienna and Martin Pilhofer at ETH Zurich has come a step…

Crouching in a farm field one dewy Alberta morning last August, Nicole Barrett was struck by the patchwork of forage plants thriving under her feet.“It looked like you had just walked into a wild meadow,” the second-year University of…

A new online tool to track global progress on tobacco control taps into the management principle that “what gets measured gets done.”The Global Tobacco Control Progress Hub gives an instant visual picture of how 180 countries are…

Since the controversial documentary series Ancient Apocalypse dropped on Netflix last November, academics and journalists around the world have been incensed at its false claims and misinformation.Earlier this month, the Society for…

With every newsfeed portending economic doom and gloom, it’s no wonder Canadians are feeling the pinch this holiday season. It seems like inflation is pushing up the price of just about everything. But the truth is there are still deals…

All seven of the United States’ abalone species that live on the West Coast are listed as Critically Endangered or Endangered according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, or IUCN, Red List of Threatened Species. This…

On Dec. 11, Artemis I’s Orion capsule made a successful splashdown in the Pacific Ocean after nearly 26 days in space and orbiting the moon. Orion is NASA’s new exploration spacecraft designed to carry humans into deep space. The…