STEP Demo supercritical CO2 pilot plant generates electricity for the first time
SAN ANTONIO — May 29, 2024 —The Supercritical Transformational Electric Power (STEP) Demo pilot plant has generated electricity for the ...
Year: 2024
The 2024 Global Food Policy Report stresses urgent need for transformative action to achieve sustainable healthy diets and improved nutrition
Washington DC, May 29, 2024: In the face of growing challenges posed by unhealthy diets, all forms of malnutrition, and ...
Electrochromic films — like sunglasses for your windows?
Advances in electrochromic coatings may bring us closer to environmentally friendly ways to keep inside spaces cool. Like eyeglasses that ...
RNA inhibitor is shown safe and effective in reducing a wide range of cholesterol and triglyceride levels in the blood in Mount Sinai-led clinical trial
A small interfering RNA (siRNA) investigational therapy that inhibits a gene involved in lipoprotein metabolism has been shown in a ...
The mind after midnight: Study shows disrupted sleep increases risk for suicide and homicide
An analysis by researchers in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson showed ...
Hitting the target with non-invasive deep brain stimulation: Potential therapy for addiction, depression, and OCD
Neurological disorders, such as addiction, depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), affect millions of people worldwide and are often characterized by ...
Solving the problems of proton-conducting perovskites for next-generation fuel cells
As a newly developed perovskite with a large amount of intrinsic oxygen vacancies, BaSc0.8W0.2O2.8 achieves high proton conduction at low ...
Marine Protected Areas don’t line up with core habitats of rare migratory fish, finds new research
62% of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) designated to protect rare migratory fish species are outside of their core habitats, according ...
SMART discovers novel method to predict effectiveness of mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) for cartilage repair
Singapore, 28 May 2024 - Researchers from Critical Analytics for Manufacturing Personalized-medicine (CAMP) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), ...
Reverse electrodialysis heat engine with helium-gap diffusion distillation: Energy efficiency analysis
The depletion of energy resources poses a significant threat to the development of human society. Specifically, a considerable amount of ...
New deep learning model is ‘game changer’ for measuring embryo development
Research led by the University of Plymouth has shown that a new deep learning AI model can identify what happens ...
The secret sex life of coral revealed
Corals play an essential role in ocean ecosystems, and like many organisms, they are under threat from climate change and ...
Smarter foragers do not forage smarter
Primates, including humans, have larger brains than most other mammals, but why? Scientists searching for the answer have long followed ...
Intermittent fasting shows promise in improving gut health, weight management
A new study by researchers from Arizona State University and their colleagues highlights a dietary strategy for significant health improvement ...
INSEAD Professor Alexandra Roulet awarded 2024 Best Young French Economist by the Cercle des économistes and Le Monde
INSEAD, The Business School for the World, announced today that Professor Alexandra Roulet has been named the 2024 Best Young ...
Turning carbon dioxide into useful chemicals
Harnessing the power of the sun to convert carbon dioxide into useful chemicals is the goal of a new junior ...
Researchers to investigate how the Dalmatian got its spots
Lancaster University and the University of Bath have been awarded almost half a million pounds from The Leverhulme Trust to ...
Bringing back an ancient bird
Using ancient DNA extracted from the toe bone of a museum specimen, Harvard biologists have sequenced the genome of an ...
Texas A&M-led team creates first global map of seafloor biodiversity activity
A pioneering study has used extensive global datasets and machine learning to map the activities of seafloor invertebrate animals, including ...
The importance of integrated therapies on cancer: Silibinin, an old and new molecule
“This consideration could be the starting point to study whether Silibinin could contrast tumor progression, aging and inflammaging through molecular ...
