Rutgers New Jersey Healthy Kids Initiative (NJHKI) is centered on the goal of making New Jersey kids the healthiest in the country and therefore focuses on health equity and community partnerships. The Horizon Foundation has supported NJHKI’s Culture of Health School Program for three years, providing funding to implement nutrition and physical literacy education to […]
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‘Ancient metabolic reaction’ that may have kickstarted life on Earth unravelled by scientists
Researchers, including those from Rutgers University in the US, found a simple peptide molecule with two nickel atoms is one of the most likely molecules that sparked life on Earth. They have called the short protein molecule ‘Nickelback’ due to its backbone nitrogen atoms bonding with two nickel atoms. Rutgers researchers on the study include: Distinguished Professor Paul Falkowski and Jennifer Timm, a postdoctoral associate, in the Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
NJ had record high temperatures, low snowfall this winter. What’s ahead for spring?
David Robinson – New Jersey State Climatologist
Thierry Besançon Wins 2023 Weed Science Outstanding Educator Award
Thierry Besançon, associate extension specialist in weed science for specialty crops, received the 2023 Outstanding Educator Award from the Northeastern Weed Science Society (NEWSS). He was also elected vice president of the NEWSS board. Besançon was characteristically modest and credited the support of his Rutgers NJAES colleagues for the recognition he received from the weed science […]
Raw Meat and Raw Milk Diets Are Trending on TikTok, Despite Safety Risks
Don Schaffner – Department of Food Science
Study: Increased wildfire risk could delay ozone layer’s recovery
Alan Robock – Department of Environmental Sciences
Winter with no snow — will NJ be able to handle summer water demand?
Dave Robinson – New Jersey State Climatologist
Thierry Besançon wins 2023 Weed Science Outstanding Educator Award
Thierry Besançon – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Microscopic Chalk Discs in Oceans Play Key Role in Carbon Cycle by Propagating Viruses
Rutgers-led research finds biomineral structures formed by marine algae foment viral infection, contributing positively to capture CO2 A Rutgers-led team of scientists studying virus-host interactions of a globally abundant, armor-plated marine algae, Emiliania huxleyi, has found that the circular, chalk plates the algae produce can act as catalysts for viral infection, which has vast consequences for […]
UN forges historic deal to protect ocean life: what researchers think
Cymie Payne – Department of Human Ecology
