Earlier this year, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) acknowledged the impact of structural racism on biomedical science and committed to doing more to dismantle it. Now, in a commentary appearing June 10 in the journal Cell, NIH Director Francis Collins and colleagues describe the NIH s UNITE initiative and how it differs from the agency s previous diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.
Anyone that s ever interacted with a dog knows that they often have an amazing capacity to interact with people. Now researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on June 3 have found that this ability is present in dogs from a very young age and doesn t require much, if any, prior experience or training. But, some of them start off better at it than others based on their genetics.
Using a piece of magnet, researchers have designed a simple system that can control the movement of a small puddle of water, even when it s upside down. The new liquid manipulation strategy, described in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science on June 3, can have a wide range of applications including cleaning hard-to-reach environments or delivering small objects.