1. Introduction Innovation is key to the advancement of medicine and subsequent improvement in patient care [1]. This is particularly true in surgery, where pioneering techniques have transformed operative management from historically highly risky,...

“We are incredibly lucky to have six new awardees this year,” said Shreffler, shown at the 2018 ONES symposium. (Photo courtesy of Steve McCaw) Recipients of the NIEHS Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES) grant...

Applied Sciences, Vol. 15, Pages 2190: Nutritional and Biochemical Characterization of White and Brown Rice (Oryza sativa) Subjected to Different Pest Control Methods Applied Sciences doi: 10.3390/app15042190 Authors: Mónica del Rocío Villamar-Aveiga Carla Verónica...

Exposure to environmental and social stressors can cause molecular changes that lead to poor health outcomes, but identifying which changes are true indicators of adverse effects or potential risk is a challenge. Environmental health...

A selection of images from Greenpeace photographers around the world this week. Comment below and let us know which one is your favourite. © Ivan Joeseff Guiwanon / Greenpeace 🇵🇭 Philippines – Filipino communities...

After a comprehensive legislative and legal process that spanned decades, New York City became the first municipality in the U.S. to implement congestion pricing—an idea first proposed by Columbia University economist William Vickrey—on January...

I don’t know about you, but I’d clean a bathroom over a kitchen any day. I suspect I am unique in this preference, however, because for most people, cleaning a bathroom is a disgusting...

Composting is one of those eco-friendly activities we should all be doing, whether you are planning to grow your own food or you simply want to minimize waste from food and other biodegradable or...

1. Introduction “Just get more data!” has been the universal principle for improving deep learning (DL) neural network (NN) models for over a decade. Indeed, although the effect of training dataset size on the...