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2 weeks ago | 
chemistryworld.com | Rachel Brazil |Bárbara Pinho |Julia Robinson |Alice Motion
Fixing medicine’s gender gapFor centuries, the default subject in medicine research and training has been the male. Julia Robinson talks to the scientists and clinicians trying to improve things for the other 51% of humanity
Managing the menopauseThe end of ovulation will affect almost all women, but current treatments could be improved. Rachel Brazil reports on the efforts to find a better solutionHow safe and sustainable are period products?
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3 weeks ago | 
cyprus-mail.com | Bárbara Pinho |Eleni Philippou |Theo Panayides |Alix Norman
EU-funded researchers are accelerating the rollout of self-driving trucks on public roads to solve driver shortages and improve safety and sustainability in Europe’s logistics sector. By Bárbara PinhoIn the not-so-distant future, unusual looking cargo vehicles – sporting large black windscreens and with no human driver behind the wheel – could become a common sight on European roads. These are automated long-haul trucks, key players in the future of Europe’s freight sector.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu | Bárbara Pinho
In 1998, in a small park in Zurich, Switzerland, one bug woke up in a new world. The bricks on the roof of a local garden, imported from China, had brought with them a hidden guest: a brown marmorated stink bug. Fast forward to 2024, and the species – Halyomorpha halys – has become an invasive pest, threatening fruit and vegetable crops in Europe.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
chemistryworld.com | Bárbara Pinho
Not just a marine issue, new research shows microplastics are also changing agricultural land. Bárbara Pinho finds out how and what we can do to prevent it affecting our food
When we think of farmland, we might imagine a landscape of lush green meadows or golden fields of cereal crops. But in reality, these landscapes are probably darker, and that’s thanks to the plastic mulch used everywhere.
Plastic mulch has become an important part of the way farmers grow food.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
newhumanist.org.uk | Bárbara Pinho
Dogs bark, cats meow. Birds chirp and dolphins squeal. In between the vast array of sounds made by animals of all shapes and sizes, meaning is conveyed in ways that help these creatures form social bonds, mate, establish hierarchies and forage together. But of all the meanings biologists have uncovered after centuries of studying animal communication, a new one has just been revealed: name-calling.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
hakaimagazine.com | Bárbara Pinho
The world’s aquaculture industry is booming. And it’s no wonder—overfishing in the open ocean has caused populations of many commercially caught fish to plummet. To keep up with the world’s growing demand for seafood, aquaculture, or the rearing of aquatic plants and animals for food, is the obvious alternative.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
ksml.fi | Bárbara Pinho
Almerían maakunnassa Kaakkois-Espanjassa maanviljelijät kasvattavat arviolta 2,5–3,5 miljoonaa tonnia hedelmiä ja vihanneksia joka vuosi, ja alue tunnetaankin yleisesti Almerian kasvihuonemerenä. Alueella kasvihuoneet jatkuvat jonona niin pitkälle kuin silmä kantaa, ja ne kattavat yli 40 000 hehtaarin (400 neliökilometrin) pinta-alan.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
moderndiplomacy.eu | Bárbara Pinho
EU-funded researchers are looking to nature for inspiration on how to treat acute respiratory distress syndrome, a life-threatening condition affecting thousands every year. By Barbara PinhoIn 2014, Professor Kai Zacharowski, Director of the Clinic for Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy at the Goethe University Hospital of Frankfurt, Germany, was treating a particularly complicated case of an Ebola patient in acute respiratory distress.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
medicalxpress.com | Bárbara Pinho
Researchers are looking to nature for inspiration on how to treat acute respiratory distress syndrome, a life-threatening condition affecting thousands every year. In 2014, Professor Kai Zacharowski, Director of the Clinic for Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy at the Goethe University Hospital of Frankfurt, Germany, was treating a particularly complicated case of Ebola in a patient with acute respiratory distress.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu | Bárbara Pinho
In 2014, Professor Kai Zacharowski, Director of the Clinic for Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy at the Goethe University Hospital of Frankfurt, Germany, was treating a particularly complicated case of an Ebola patient in acute respiratory distress. As the man’s condition worsened, Zacharowski reached for a new experimental drug – a molecule naturally occurring in the human body (FX06) – that he hoped could stabilise the patient. The intervention worked.
