Study: Political polarization doesn’t dominate people’s perceptions of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has been perceived in the national media as a largely partisan issue in the United States, with...
Go fish: why MSK researchers use zebrafish to study a cancer-linked inflammation pathway
In science, how you ask a question is often as important as what you ask.Credit: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center...
UN: Trapped sediment robbing world’s large dams of vital water storage capacity; ~26% loss by 2050 foreseen
Trapped sediment has robbed roughly 50,000 large dams worldwide of an estimated 13% to 19% of their combined original storage...
Affordable device for fixing broken bones piloted in Gaza, Sri Lanka and Ukraine
Imperial researchers have developed a low-cost, easy-to-manufacture stabiliser for broken bones to help in regions where such devices are expensive...
Protecting biocatalysts from oxygen
For the energy transition to succeed, we require environmentally friendly energy carriers. Hydrogen could be one such source if it...
Moving water and earth
As a river cuts through a landscape, it can operate like a conveyer belt, moving truckloads of sediment over time....
Sunlight pulps the plastic soup
Texel, 11 January 2023 - UV light from the sun slowly breaks down plastics on the ocean’s surfaces. Floating microplastic is...
Discovery of a new form of carbon called Long-range Ordered Porous Carbon (LOPC)
The most well-known forms of carbon include graphite and diamond, but there are other more exotic nanoscale allotropes of carbon...
Medical clowns: A significant contribution to medical care – Much more than just entertainment
Credit: Tel Aviv University A first study of its kind by Tel Aviv University researchers examined the "secret magic"...
“A perfect little system”: University of Toronto physicists isolate a pair of atoms to observe p-wave interaction strength for the first time
"Suppose you knew everything there was to know about a water molecule — the chemical formula, the bond angle, etc.,”...
New nanotransporter for drug delivery inside cells
A new study by the University of Barcelona has analized the viability of a new nanomolecule as drug delivery vehicle....
A big step toward ‘green’ ammonia and a ‘greener’ fertilizer
Industrial production of ammonia, primarily for synthetic fertilizer — the fuel for last century’s Green Revolution — is one of...
Study reveals obesity-related trigger that can lead to diabetes
People who are overweight or obese have a significantly increased risk of developing diabetes, but exactly how that happens is...
Study proves that antivenom reduces risk of skin necrosis in patients bitten by brown recluse spider
One of the most dreaded effects of the bite of the brown recluse spider (Loxosceles spp) is the appearance of a...