Exploiting dark autoionizing states for enhancing the extreme ultraviolet laser power
Exploiting dark autoionizing states for enhancing the extreme ultraviolet laser power Credit: INRS Exploiting dark autoionizing states for enhancing the ...
Month: March 2023
Removing cancer-causing heavy metals from wastewater with photocatalysts
Toxic heavy metals found in wastewater have health and safety ramifications for communities affected by pollution. Hexavalent chromium is a ...
Iridium-based catalysts look set to boost efficiency of green hydrogen production
Hydrogen production powered by wind and solar energy is still too expensive if it is to play a role in ...
Prestigious EU support to save species
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a prestigious Advanced Grant of EUR 2.5 million ($2.6 million) over 5 years ...
A bright spot in the treatment of lateral disc meniscus injuries in for youth
Osaka, Japan― Tearing their meniscus—a crescent-shaped piece of a soft cushion of cartilage located between the femur and tibia—can be ...
Lynx reintroduction in Scotland? It’s complicated
Plans to reintroduce the lynx in Scotland provoke a complex range of opinions, new research shows.Credit: Peter Cairns/Northshots Plans to ...
New RNA-based toolkit to regulate gene activity could advance regenerative medicine, gene therapy and biotechnology
The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), in collaboration with Astellas Pharma Inc., has developed a new toolkit that ...
Australians paying $6 billion for unused apartment parking
Experts are calling for planning policy to ‘unbundle’ parking spaces from apartments to reduce housing costs and alleviate street parking ...
Rainbow trout subspecies newly named
The McCloud River redband trout, or O. mykiss calisulat, is newly identified as its own distinct subspecies of rainbow trout in ...
Insilico Medicine featured in BBC-produced series on biotech breakthroughs
Insilico Medicine (“Insilico”) is featured in the new BBC StoryWorks-produced film series Nature’s Building Blocks made in conjunction with the ...
Chemists design new molecule, with oxygen as the star of the show
Colorado State University chemists have achieved a new feat in the realm of chemical design and synthesis: They’ve helped create the first ...
Senescence and extracellular vesicles: novel partners in vascular amyloidosis
“ there has been limited research to date on the effect of cellular ‘ageing’, termed senescence, on amyloidosis.”Credit: 2023 Whitehead ...
Mimicking biological enzymes may be key to hydrogen fuel production
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — An ancient biological enzyme known as nickel-iron hydrogenase may play a key role in producing hydrogen for ...
Ochsner Health named 2023 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award Winner
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA— Ochsner Health, Louisiana’s largest nonprofit, academic, multi-specialty, healthcare delivery system, has received the 2023 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award (GEWA). This ...
We are not yet approaching any maximum human lifespan, according to an examination of human mortality over time and across 19 countries
###Credit: PublicDomainPictures, Pixabay, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ### Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0281752 Article Title: Mortality postponement and compression at older ages in human ...
Can AI predict how you’ll vote in the next election?
Artificial intelligence technologies like ChatGPT are seemingly doing everything these days: writing code, composing music, and even creating images so ...
In the very old, higher BMI is associated with more health complaints, and in overweight men, with mental health complaints too
Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0283089Credit: micheile henderson, Unsplash, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0283089 Article Title: The impact of BMI on psychological health ...
Excess death gap widens between US and Europe
A new analysis shows that, compared to similarly high-income European countries, the US continues to have substantially higher death rates ...
Ancient giant amphibians swam like crocodiles 250 million years ago
Ancient 2m-long amphibians swam like crocodiles long before true crocodiles existed, according to a study published March 29, 2023 in ...
CNIO researchers help to understand the functioning of the protein that makes DNA loops in the human genome
At the end of the 1990s, Ana Losada, a researcher at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), then at ...
