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A solution for cleaning up PFAS, one of the world’s most intractable pollutants
Treatment train for a PFAS compound known by its trade name, GenXCredit: Colorado State University A cluster of industrial chemicals...
Mobile devices blur work and personal privacy raising cyber risks, says QUT researcher
Credit: QUT Media Organisations aren't moving quickly enough on cyber security threats linked to the drive toward using personal mobile...
Whales may owe their efficient digestion to millions of tiny microbes
Credit: Photo by Kate Stafford, University of Washington A study by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) shows that...
Can 3D-printing musical instruments produce better sound than traditional instruments?
Investigators in China created a functioning 3D-printed ukulele and used acoustics to compare its sound quality to a standard wooden...
Machine learning, imaging technique may boost colon cancer diagnosis
A pilot study identified tumors with 100% accuracyCredit: Zhu Lab Colorectal cancer is the second most common type of cancer...
Lights on fishing nets save turtles and dolphins
Credit: ProDelphinus Placing lights on fishing nets reduces the chances of sea turtles and dolphins being caught by accident, new...
Insilico publishes a review of deep aging clocks and announces the issuance of key patent
Insilico Medicine announced the publication of a comprehensive review of the deep biomarkers of aging and the publication of a...
Modern technology and old-fashioned legwork solve science mystery
Video shows single-cell organism making complex decisionsCredit: Image credit: Joseph Dexter and Sudhakaran Prabakaran/Current Biology. HANOVER, N.H. - December 5,...
Scientist identify new marker for insecticide resistance in malaria mosquitoes
Credit: Adriana Adolfi Researchers at LSTM have genetically modified malaria carrying mosquitoes in order to demonstrate the role of particular...
Squid pigments have antimicrobial properties
Credit: Chan-Higuera et al. Ommochromes, the pigments that colour the skin of squids and other invertebrates, could be used in...
Your food may help make stickier, safer glues for laptops, packaging, furniture
Credit: Gudrun Schmidt/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - You cannot make glue out of a ham sandwich - but you...
How extreme environmental conditions affect the human brain
Study from the Antarctic Neumayer-Station IIICredit: Photo: Stahn/Charité A joint press release by Charité and the Max Planck Institute for...
First ‘lab in a field’ experiment reveals a sunnier side of climate change
Credit: Phil Robinson Pioneering experiments using heated field plots to test the responses of crops to temperature have revealed an...
Neurorestore: A Swiss initiative aimed at restoring lost neurological function
The Defitech Foundation has teamed up with EPFL, CHUV and UNIL to widen access to the groundbreaking neurotechnology developed under...
How sand fly mating habits are helping tackle tropical disease in £2.5 million project
Credit: World Health Organisation The tropical disease Leishmaniasis is being tackled by catching female sand flies who carry the parasite...
Mouse study shows nerve signaling pathway critical to healing fractures
Credit: Seungyong Lee, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Medicine Sticks and stones may break one's bones, but healing them requires the production...
NeutroCure: Exploiting the dual nature of neutrophils to cure inflammatory diseases
The project has received European funding of €3 million for 5 years in the category H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2020 - FET Open --...
Researchers develop method to improve skeleton of common chemicals
Credit: Keiji Mori, TUAT Every chemical, from the simplest to the most complex, have a structural skeleton of atoms. The...
Study prompts call for disaster-specific pharmacy legislation
Credit: QUT media Pharmacists caught up in the Australian bushfire crisis are being hampered from providing timely and effective treatment...
Multiple correlations between brain complexity and locomotion pattern in vertebrates
Researchers unveil multiple correlations between brain complexity and locomotion pattern in vertebratesCredit: Simone Macrì and Nicolas Di-Poï, University of Helsinki....
