Latest News Releases 29 September

The share of women managers in finance has significantly increased in Finland, but their earnings have not caught up with those of men, shows a new study from the University of Vaasa, Finland. The earnings of female managers in finance are on average 15 percent lower than male managers. Women are working as managers of marketing teams, whereas men are more often managers of investments teams, where the wages are significantly higher than in marketing.

An international team of researchers has found acidity levels increasing three to four times faster than ocean waters elsewhere and a strong correlation between the accelerated rate of melting ice in the region and the rate of ocean acidification. This threatens the Earth's climate and the survival of plants, shellfish, coral reefs and other marine life.

Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA center members discovered how to create more accurate, consistent brain organoids to develop treatments for neurological disorders.

A team of researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed an ionic circuit comprising hundreds of ionic transistors and performed a core process of neural net computing.

Since their discovery over 100 years ago, neurons in the brain’s olfactory bulb, called tufted cells, have been difficult to study. By leveraging new technology, CSHL neuroscientists were able to precisely dissect the neural activity of these tufted cells for the first time. They discovered the tufted cells were better at recognizing smells than mitral cells, their neighboring neurons in the olfactory bulb. Their findings offer new explanations for how the brain processes sensory information.

Researchers from the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture have received a $750,000 grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture to study native warm-season perennial grasses for organic livestock feed production.

Rising sea levels from melting glaciers and ice sheets pose an increasing threat to coastal communities worldwide. A new analysis of high-resolution satellite observations takes a major step forward in assessing this risk by confirming theoretical predictions and computational models of sea-level changes used to forecast climate-change-driven impacts.

The research group of Thijn Brummelkamp at the Netherlands Cancer Institute has once again managed to track down one of the "mystery genes" - the gene that ensures that the final form of the protein actin is created, a main component of our cell skeleton. These findings were published today in Science.