ResearchPod

Sensitising science to research involving animals

08 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Rebekah Humphreys, senior lecturer at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, and specialist in applied ethics, considers how it is possible t...

Botulinum neurotoxin type A resistance: An emerging problem

06 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Botulinum neurotoxin A (BoNT-A), often referred to as ‘Botox’, is increasingly in cosmetic procedures. However, long-term use and high doses of Bo...

The Impact of Gender and Bottom-line Mentality Upon Workplace Mistreatment

03 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

With a reported 60% of employees reported experiencing workplace bullying within the last 6 months , the negative effect of mistreatment on their work...

Green Energy in Germany: the business perspective

01 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Decarbonising energy production requires power plant operators to change to green technology.  Using models of the German energy system and realistic...

Change agents: Professional development for adult educators

27 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

 There are many reasons why people drop out of high school education, from bullying or family circumstances to having unrecognised learning difficult...

Predictive discarding for sustainable Industry 5.0

24 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The computer chip shortage has prompted Dr Geert van Kollenburg and his colleagues at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, to find dat...

Impacts of hormone imbalances in FHA, with or without PCOS

22 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Women with functional hypothalamic amenorrhea, or FHA – one of the most common types of secondary amenorrhoea - do not ovulate.  Johannes Ott and M...

Valued waste/wasted value: e-waste recycling in Asia

17 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Electronic waste (e-waste) contains a range of materials, including precious metals, which could be salvaged for reusable components and continue to o...

Temporal and technical ecology

15 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ophelia Mantz and Rafael Beneytez Duran from the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design at the University of Houston present nature as a s...

Documenting the dramatic evolution of personalised medicine

10 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In her book 'Advancing Healthcare Through Personalized Medicine', science writer Dr Priya Hays has compiled an authoritative and highly deta...

Fuzzy logic: The seventh wonder of the IT world

08 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Programming codes are traditionally based on binary numbering systems–everything is expressed in values of 0 or 1 in line with the true or false pri...

Misunderstanding translanguaging in preschoolers

06 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Preschool children have an extraordinary capacity to learn and use different languages, embracing the gestural, musical, and visual cues associated wi...

Revealing properties of regular convex polytopes in negative dimensions

03 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Mathematics and physics extend the notion of dimensionality beyond the usual perception of three dimensions to consider higher-dimensional spaces. The...

The intriguing case of an endobronchial valve migration

01 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Lung surgery, like every other type of surgery, can have complications that sometimes require further procedures to be dealt with. Surgeons are always...

Finding novel treatment strategies for UTI through oestrogen receptors

29 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are one of the most common bacterial infections and contribute to antibiotic use and the healthcare burden each year. ...

How medical schools can evolve to tackle gun violence

27 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Despite the shocking levels of gun violence in the USA and in the Americas, medical practitioners are taught little more than dealing with the direct ...

The future of sustainable agriculture

25 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

With a predicted global population of 9 billion by 2050, there is a need for increased, sustainable food production.  Additionally, climate change wi...

Can we do more to get college students vaccinated against HPV?

20 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection globally, more than 80% of sexually active people will be infected at som...

Hypoxia-guided proton therapy for NSCLC

18 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tumour hypoxia occurs when cancer cells lack oxygen, and is associated with decreased effectiveness of radiotherapy treatments. One way to counteract ...

Are we on the verge of uploading human consciousness?

13 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Transferring human consciousness into a machine has long been a popular motif in science fiction, but for now, seems like a far-off dream. However, Pr...

Modelling and analysis of flows of viscoelastic fluids: Beyond the Navier–Stokes equations

11 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Navier–Stokes equations are important for science and engineering, since they describe the motion of fluids.  However, these equations can not ...

Computational biology: How mathematical modelling can help cure cancer

06 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Understanding how living cells work is difficult due to the number of varied and complex processes occurring in them. This complexity can be elucidate...

Digital Health in Southeast Asia: Startups and Digital Technology Applications

04 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Southeast Asia mirrors global trends; people are living longer and there is a growing elderly population, and disease prevention is a key contributing...

Nordic Sports Associations and refugee integration

19 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There are many factors involved in the reception of Ukrainian refugees, and the response from governments and civil society has been, mildly put, rema...

How can mathematics research increase effective instruction and student success?

16 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

 Students without adequate understanding of basic mathematical concepts and skills after completing kindergarten go on to struggle throughout their m...

The Environmentally Responsible Happy Nation Index as a national success indicator

14 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Most international success indices rank countries according to how they perform against various measures and include happiness as a key value, but fai...

Ovarian Cancer Epidemiology, Healthcare Access and Disparities (ORCHiD)

12 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the USA, Black  and Hispanic ovarian cancer patients experience much poorer outcomes than White patients, suggesting they have less access to qual...

Waste management and transition to a circular economy

09 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

'Sustainable development’ has become a familiar term, but with over 300 definitions it can mean different things to different people, and is pr...

Racial equity in early childhood education

07 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If there is to be any hope of resolving the racial disparities that mark society, the healing of racial inequity needs to begin early enough to preven...

A low-cost portable sensor system for air quality monitoring

05 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

To tackle the challenge of monitoring air quality and assessing personal pollutant exposure in urban settings, low-cost sensors have become increasing...

A trust-based approach to the use of facial recognition technology

02 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Facial recognition technology establishes a person’s identity from a single digital image of their face. This technology to identify criminals and p...

Actively using neuroplastic methods to develop inner strengths

30 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lifes challenges can become lasting burdens if we don’t have the psychological resources to meet them.  So how can we build up a psychological tool...

Deciphering the role of time and space in ecological systems

25 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Understanding the function of time and space when an ecosystem is disturbed is essential for devising sustainable conservation and management policies...

The heart of the matter: Clinical electrophysiology and beyond

23 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Clinical electrophysiology, the application of electricity to monitor or produce a physiological effect, seems such a core part of any modern hospital...

X-ray histotomography: Characterising every cell of a whole organism

18 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Diagnosing diseases requires understanding of how cells respond to different medical conditions. Histology is a common two-dimensional way of studying...

Using patient datasets to track COVID-19 prevalence

16 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The rapid spread and constant evolution of COVID-19, has presented significant challenges to tracking true disease prevalence . In addition, the way w...

Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Organic Strawberries

11 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The demand for organically grown food has increased over the past few decades, with environmentally savvy consumers concerned about how the food they ...

Integrative oncology: Improving survival odds in breast cancer

09 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Cancer affects not just peoples physical body but also their mental and spiritual wellbeing. With such complex manifestations, holistic treatment appr...

Advance Elements of Laser Circuits and Systems

04 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Over the course of his career, Dr Ofer Aluf has developed cutting-edge innovations in a wide range of technologies, including computer chips, semicond...

Embodied emissions and engineering in urban design

02 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Designing, building, and maintaining homes in the 21st century has to consider the wellbeing of residents and the environment.  From the heavy machin...

Understanding what drives Corporate Social Responsibility

31 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Companies and businesses generally exist to create wealth. Yet, increasingly over the past three decades, companies have come to regard Corporate Soci...

The collapse of the Polcevera Viaduct – an avoidable tragedy

28 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The dramatic collapse of the Polcevera Viaduct, in the Italian port city of Genoa in 2018, had all the hallmarks of unfortunate tragedy, but to the tr...

For pregnant women, new mothers and those who love them: the latest updates on postpartum depression

26 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Approximately 10-20% of women will experience some form of postpartum depression. Without prompt access to care and support, the wellbeing of both mot...

How can we make robots evolve autonomously?

21 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Professor A E Eiben at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, in The Netherlands, shows how robots could pass on their advantageous traits to new generations, ...

How play and learning can increase educational equity

19 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Children from families with low or insecure incomes are at greater odds of hindered language development and cognitive growth, with gaps in ability be...

A novel plant-based source of Omega-3

14 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Omega-3 fatty acids are essential to human health, and are mainly sourced from wild caught fish. Those same fish are also an essential part of feeding...

The past, present and future of cancer care

12 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There have been scores of drug approvals across the globe for treating cancer in recent years, and the right combination of treatment and patient can ...

Perceptions of safety and maintenance in cycling infrastructure

07 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The infrastructure for transport within and between towns offers more than just a means to get from one place to another. It can shape the formation o...

To trust or not to trust: A psychoneurobiological framework

05 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A trusting society is open, inclusive, and promotes both social and personal well-being. Understanding the interpersonal trust between any members of ...

Adaptive Heritage: Creative thinking or abandoning our values?

30 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Our world is always changing. Some of those changes, such as climate change or depletion of natural resources, are coming fast, and could have far rea...

Regulation, prevalence and impacts of cannabis consumption in the US

28 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Depending on when and where you listen to this podcast, you may be legally allowed to possess cannabis for your own recreational enjoyment. Or it may ...

'Rebooting' retired endocrinologists to provide vital diabetes care

26 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the face of a staff shortage among endocrinologists in the US, patient care for those with diabetes is paramount. Dr Richard Santen at the Universi...

Could nanomaterials be an alternative better treatment for COVID-19?

23 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, multiple vaccines and treatments have been proposed to combat the disease. However, one limitation of these ...

Smart charging of electric vehicles

21 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Forecasts project that there will be around 100 million electric vehicles on the roads in the next few decades. With that additional electricity deman...

Making strides in veterinary pathology

16 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Shelley Newman of Newman Specialty VetPath, USA, has improved the diagnosis, classification, and treatment of mast cell tumours and pancreatic dise...

Transition and opportunity - Making the most of China’s future

14 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Even this early in the 21st century, there are signs of economic and cultural trends that may be its hallmarks in history - for better, for worse and ...

The influence of toxicity on plant growth dynamics

09 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For as long as people have farmed, it has been known that planting the same crop in the same field without change over the years leads to reduced crop...

Advancing nuclear fusion with nanotechnology

07 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The dream of nuclear fusion as a source of near-unlimited energy is decades old, but, with the latest advances by research teams working around the wo...

Reality, information, and consciousness: The universe as a cosmic quantum computer

02 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Verheyen of the Sola Society and Academy at Vienna University, Austria, explores the notion that the conscious reality we experience as human be...

Cilia proteins as biomarkers of altered flow

31 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The cellular waste in your blood can tell you a lot about your health -any immune activation, mineral deficits, or stress hormones circulating through...

Roxadustat: A promising treatment for anaemia in chronic kidney disease

26 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

More than one in seven people in the US have chronic kidney disease (CKD), making it one of the top causes of death. Anaemia is a common, though under...

How Festivals Bring Mutual Understanding and Harmony to Southeast Asia

23 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For members of The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), festivals are used to promote a concept known as   “the ASEAN Way”: respecting...

Accounting for biogeographical ignorance within biodiversity modelling

19 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Biodiversity data can be analysed to predict species distribution at various scales of time and space. However, survey completeness and temporal decay...

Lifting the Resource Curse

17 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The 'resource curse’,  or "Dutch disease“, describes when countries rich in natural resources face reduced domestic growth rates in oth...

Cameleer: A deductive verification tool for OCaml

12 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How do we know that we can trust software? One answer is software reliability testing. Dr Mário Pereira and Dr António Ravara from the Nova School o...

Managing Balance: Sustainability in science and history

10 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Alchemy may be understood as the first scientific paradigm, beginning as a collection of observations, experiments, and recipes for practical processe...

Can β-glucan soluble fibre from oats and barley affect weight loss and adiposity?

05 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Obesity is a growing public health concern, but studies suggest that soluble fibre from certain cereal whole grains can help weight management. Rebec...

Quantum carpets from tumbling molecules

03 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Molecules are comprised of charged particles whose spatial distribution is or could be distorted, lending the molecules a handle by which they can be ...

How can we reduce the public health burden of food and waterborne diseases?

29 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

 While some bacteria are beneficial, such as probiotic bacteria in the human gastrointestinal tract, others can have serious consequences for human h...

The Future Circular Collider

27 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

New generations of particle accelerators are now in development, in which beams of particles collide ever more precisely and at ever higher energies.P...

New therapeutic avenues for treating Alzheimer’s disease

22 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Bradlee Heckmann and his team at the USF Health Neuroscience Institute in the US aim to develop new therapeutic avenues for treating neuroinflammat...

Alternative financial engineering to fund our health - The WHO Case

20 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A healthcare system that is preventative, collective and inclusive is far more resilient, and cheaper to run, than private for-profit schemes.  Such ...

Searching for inefficiencies in the food–energy–water nexus

14 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The WASTE FEW ULL project is developing and testing internationally applicable methods of identifying inefficiencies in a city-region’s food-energy-...

Industry incentives and antibiotic resistance

13 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the face of increasing drug resistance, there is a pressing need to develop new antibiotic compounds. However, the effort of developing such new tr...

How intestinal bacteria use our dying cells as fuel

08 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Until now, a great deal has remained unknown about the relationship between programmed cell death and bacterial infections. However, recent work by Dr...

The next big thing: A Monetary Inflation Brake

06 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How should we design a new monetary tool that can cope with external shocks which might affect our economy in the Anthropocene? The Tao of Finance in...

Genome Architecture Theory shakes up cancer research

01 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Henry Heng’s Genome Architecture Theory is a new paradigm questioning the status quo of genomic and evolutionary theories. He proposes that cance...

Food consumption, gender and body types in children's animations

29 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today's cartoons a different experience from past generations, in which gratuitous violence was the primary concern of worried parents. But what ...

New theories expand cognition to fungi

24 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Consciousness and self awareness are tricky things to define in an all-encompassing way, and new research on the intricacies of cellular cognition is ...

Optimizing future well-being with artificial intelligence

22 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

By leveraging your personal health data  with Artificial Intelligence, from blood samples to psychological surveys, it is possible to make accurate p...

K-MEDI Hub: Pioneering preclinical research

17 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A state-of-the-art research and development centre in Daegu, Korea – K-MEDI hub – is creating a medical industry ecosystem for the research and de...

The neuroscience of metabolism

15 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

An estimated 130 million adults are living with diabetes or prediabetes in the United States right now. So it might come as a shock that a fundamental...

Can deeply religious people be intellectually humble?

10 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Is theism conducive to humility in thought? Can deeply religious people also be intellectually humble? Dr Peter C Hill, professor of psychology at th...

New technology in blood test risk stratification

08 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The move to from a reactive approach in medicine, when diseases or disturbances are treated once they are serious enough to present a problem, to a pr...

Diverse Horizons: Investing globally in social and environmental sustainability

03 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Global issues such as climate change, social inequalities, and environmental breakdowns are borderless, meaning no country can tackle them alone. Inte...

Training and social resources for harm reduction within medical education

01 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Stephen Hargarten from Medical College of Wisconsin discusses his experience of working in Emergency Room care, his research into harm reduction...

Cost-Benefit Analysis and Dementia

27 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Prof Robert Brent, Professor of Economics at Fordham University, discusses his new book on interventions for managing dementia, and cost-benefit appro...

The New Personality Self-Portrait25

25 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The New Personality Self-Portrait25, or NPSP25 is the work of psychiatrist John M. Oldham, M.D., in longtime collaboration with mental health journali...

A parametric framework for multidimensional linear regression

20 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Stanley Luck of Vector Analytics LLC has developed a novel parametric framework for multidimensional linear regression, following collaborative res...

Anthropogenic Hazards Linked to Georesource Exploitation

17 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

 Mining, fracking and other georesource activities pose various environmental hazards - groundwater contamination, air pollution, and even significan...

Criminology on Trump - America’s outlaw and racketeer-in-chief

13 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Emeritus Professor Gregg Barak, is co-founder of the Journal of White Collar & Corporate Crime. Barak is also a three-time award-winning author an...

Financing our anthropocene

11 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

 The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN set out the aims of ensuring the future of life on Planet Earth is clean, healthy, and rich in...

Do Innovative Firms Communicate More?

04 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Innovation is an important driver for increasing a firms profit margins. However, short-term expenses in the innovation process, with a short product ...

Exploring the neglected overlap between HIV and substance use disorders

27 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Substance use disorders (SUD) are common within the population of people with HIV, and this can have a detrimental effect on their progression along t...

Digital transformation for higher education post COVID-19

20 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Higher Education Institutions, or HEIs, have been forced to reconfigure their activities as a result of the pandemic.Based on new research, Prof Lloyd...

Implementing an insolvency framework for micro and small enterprises

13 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) represent around 90% of businesses and more than 50% of worldwide employment. Despite their economic...

The Platform: A novel non-invasive fish monitoring method

08 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Estuaries are incredibly variable environments, which can make fish monitoring using traditional sampling gear difficult. Dr Joseph Merz has developed...

Chronic fatigue syndrome / ME insights through molecular biology

06 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS or ME) is a complex, long-term, and highly debilitating condition whose causes and mechanisms have been poorly understoo...

What constitutes optimal leisure?

30 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Across history, people have developed multiple ways of occupying their free time through a host of leisure activities. Professor Robert Stebbins at th...

Daily adaptive proton therapy

23 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Proton therapy is an effective technique for fighting cancer. In order to optimise treatment, it is clear that each patient must be carefully assessed...