What Is Acute Pancreatitis And Who Are At A Higher Risk?
The pancreas is located in the abdominal cavity behind the stomach and produces pancreatic juices which contain digestive enzymes, and these enzymes help to break…
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Are Our Houses Demanding More From Us?
Winston Churchill once said, “We shape our buildings, and afterward, our buildings shape us.” Buildings grow, adapt, and evolve just like the users that occupy…
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Examining Cystine Crystallization In Cystinosis Patients
Cystinosis is a genetic disease that leads to the accumulation of cystine and the formation of intracellular crystals throughout the body, including in the kidney…
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Transboundary Water Cooperation And The Sustainable Development Goals
Think about what you drank today. Odds are, you drank water at some point. For most of us, particularly in more developed countries, water might…
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A Single Grave, Several Generations: Paleoecological Insights From Skeletons Of An Extant Species
It is not rare to find in the fossil record of vertebrates cases in which fossils from one or few extinct species predominate over others…
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Investigating The Effects Of PM2.5 On Energy Metabolic Reprogramming
During the last two decades, air pollution has been regarded as one of the toughest challenges facing human beings. As the key indicator of air…
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Exploring The Goods And Services From Forest Ecosystems By Integrating Information From Multiple Sources
Why are forests relevant? Forest ecosystems contain large amounts of different groups of organisms and play a key role in biodiversity conservation across the world’s…
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A Unique Independent Record Of Past Temperature Change In Northwest Ireland For The Mid To Late Holocene
The Holocene, the current geological epoch, spans approximately the last 11,700 years. Holocene temperature variability in Ireland is considered to have been relatively subdued; however, recent…
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How The Behavior Of Fronts In Ecosystems Affects Regime Shifts
Ecosystems are constantly perturbed by both natural and human-induced disturbances, ranging from storms and fires to grazing and clear-cutting. If an ecosystem has alternative stable…
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Investigating Sea-Level Sediment Transport And The Summer Monsoon Season
The International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) is one of the most an influential marine research collaboration programs that explores the Earth’s history and dynamics using…
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Geochemical Methods Help Resolve A Long-Standing Debate In Amber Palaeontology
Ambers are fossilized plant resins that have found wide use in jewelry-making. They are also a major archive for the study of invertebrate evolution. Yet,…
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