Time to tackle the UK’s plutonium mountain
Professor Neil Hyatt, Research Chair in Radioactive Waste Management, calls for UK plutonium policy to be re-examined to allow swift immobilisation of UK's civil plutonium...
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A new way to image solar cells in 3-D
Credit: Berkeley Lab Next-generation solar cells made of super-thin films of semiconducting material hold promise because they're relatively inexpensive and flexible enough to be applied...
High-fat diet disrupts brain maturation
Junk food is a burgeoning problem for modern society: we literally have too much on our plate. Fatty and unhealthy foods are especially popular with...
Machine-learning discovery and design of membrane-active peptides for biomedicine
Credit: University of Illinois There are approximately 1,100 known antimicrobial peptides (AMP) with diverse sequences that can permeate microbial membranes. To help discover the "blueprint"...
Europe joins forces in cultural heritage investigation
Credit: CSIC Communications Just as astrophysicists and physicists depend on telescopes and particle accelerators which are often shared by several countries to carry out observations...
Implantable catalyst against cancer
Assembling a drug from harmless components at the target location, such as a tumor, would help reduce the side effects of treatment. In the journal...
Preparations for the 5th Heidelberg Laureate Forum are underway!
The HLF offers all accepted young researchers the great opportunity to personally interact with the laureates of the most prestigious prizes in the fields of...
Biotechnology: A growing field in the developing world
The developing world is achieving significant growth in a broad cross-section of biotechnology fields, many of them directly tied to food production, health and other...
Level of education is more decisive than intelligence for development of short-sightedness
Environmental factors such as education and leisure activities have a greater influence on the development of short-sightedness or myopia than the ability to think logically...
Asian-Americans least likely to be screened for diabetes
Do Asian Americans receive adequate preventative healthcare when it comes to being screened for type 2 diabetes? No, says a survey of 45 US states...
Parkinson’s disease patients benefit from physical activity
A comprehensive review published in the Journal of Parkinson's Disease confirms that people living with Parkinson's disease (PD) can benefit from being physically active, especially...
Hospital admissions rising for elderly patients with Parkinson’s disease
Although treatment for Parkinson's disease (PD) is significantly extending the lives of patients, these patients are now being admitted to hospitals at increasing rates. In...
Good drugs for bad bugs
20% of patients infected with MRSA are dying from systemic infections Antimicrobial resistance infections are projected to cause more deaths than cancer by 2050 if...
Genes for speech may not be limited to humans
Our current understanding is that mice have either no -- or extremely limited -- neural circuitry and genes similar to those that regulate human speech....
Study links groundwater changes to fracking
Credit: Kevin Krajick/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory A new study has found heightened concentrations of some common substances in drinking water near sites where hydraulic fracturing has...