Year: 2024

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Team successfully synthesizes atomically precise metal nanoclusters

A research team has successfully synthesized a metal nanocluster and determined its crystal structure. Their study provides experimental evidence for ...

Harvard neuroscientist Haim Sompolinsky awarded Brain Prize

Haim Sompolinsky, Professor in Residence in Harvard’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Department of Physics, has received the Brain ...

Audit of food donations prompts call for new nutrition and safety standards

New Curtin University research that analysed a whopping 85,000 kilograms of food donated to Foodbank WA over five days has ...

World Innovation Summit for Health announces 2024 Global Healthcare Innovation Competition at Web Summit

5 March 2024. Doha, Qatar: Web Summit Qatar 2024 provided the stage for the announcement of the World Innovation Summit ...

Juno spacecraft measures oxygen production on Jupiter’s moon, Europa

SAN ANTONIO — March 5, 2024—NASA’s Juno spacecraft has directly measured charged oxygen and hydrogen molecules from the atmosphere of ...

ECNU Review of Education: Exploring the landscape of shadow education

The diverse forms of private tutoring range from one-to-one sessions to large lecture halls with video screens. In countries where ...

Wild bees develop tolerance to veterinary drugs

Stingless bees in the Colombian Andes are adapting to a derivative of the ubiquitous insecticide ivermectin, which the bees ingest ...

Major neurotech hub in Milan announced

The IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital and the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University announced the launch of a long-term partnership with the ...

Proposals for cell donation procedures to create brain organoids

With advances in neuroscience and the development of new technologies, new ethical considerations have emerged. This is particularly true for ...

Turning skin cells into limb cells sets the stage for regenerative therapy

Fukuoka, Japan – In a collaborative study, researchers from Kyushu University and Harvard Medical School have identified proteins that can ...

Protecting joints from bacteria with mussels

Degenerative arthritis is no longer exclusive to the elderly population. According to the National Health Insurance Service report covering the ...

Researchers closing in on genetic treatments for hereditary lung disease, vision loss

PORTLAND, Ore. – Researchers who work with tiny drug carriers known as lipid nanoparticles have developed a new type of ...

Proceed with caution – the meteoric rise of zero-alcohol drinks

New research from Flinders University has revealed that parents are feeling conflicted, confused and concerned when it comes to zero-alcohol ...

Scientists advancing new methods to produce hydrogen from rocks producing hydrogen from rocks gains steam as scientists advance new methods

In a project that could be a game changer for the energy transition, researchers at The University of Texas at ...

University of Houston engineer Metin Akay featured in study highlighting 50 scientists’ contributions to biomedical engineering advancements

Metin Akay, founding chair of the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Houston and John S. Dunn Professor, is ...

Balancing building temperatures sustainably: The Zero-Energy Switchable Radiative Cooler

Heating and cooling buildings currently accounts for a significant portion of global energy consumption, posing a challenge for reducing reliance ...

Multiparticle nanostructures for building better quantum technologies

In a recent publication in Nature Physics, the LSU Quantum Photonics Group offers fresh insights into the fundamental traits of surface plasmons, challenging ...

WVU research shows government regulation of jobs hinders workers and consumers

Audiologists, auctioneers and crane operators have one thing in common: they can’t legally do their jobs without licenses that create ...

Modeling the origins of life: New evidence for an “RNA World”