The biological status of many commercially exploited fishes remains unknown, mostly due to a lack of data necessary for their assessment. Investigating the spatiotemporal dynamics of such species can lead to new insights into population processes and ...

Freshwater springs are thermally stable environments which are largely unaffected by changes in air temperature. They could thus have the potential to buffer rising temperatures and serve as small-scale refugia for aquatic invertebrates in a warming ...

Background: The Ebola epidemic in West Africa caused global fear and stirred up worldwide preparedness activities in countries sharing borders with those affected, and in geographically far-away countries such as Iceland. Objective: To describe and ...

Urine dipstick tests are widely used in routine medical care to diagnose kidney and urinary tract and metabolic diseases. Several environmental factors are known to affect the test results, whereas the effects of genetic diversity are largely unknown. ...

Adolescent use of social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat has increased dramatically over the last decade and now pervades their everyday social lives. Active and passive social media use may impact emotional health differently, ...

Veruleiki ungs fólks og um leið daglegt líf þess á tímum COVID-19 hefur gjörbreyst. Aukinn handþvottur og sprittun handa er aðeins hluti þess sem breyttist í kjölfar faraldursins. Við bættist lítil sem engin skólasókn, engar íþróttaæfingar, samkomubann ...

Um þessar mundir hefur fallið niður eða dregið verulega úr daglegu skólastarfi fyrir þúsundir barna, ekki bara á Íslandi heldur um heim allan. Því samfélagsmynstri sem við búum við dags daglega hefur verið kippt úr sambandi. Foreldrar fara ekki í ...