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Bio & Medicine Jul 10, 2024

Nanoparticle-based delivery system could offer treatment for diabetics with rare insulin allergy

Up to 3% of people with diabetes have an allergic reaction to insulin. A team at Forschungszentrum Jülich has now studied a method that could be used to deliver the active substance into the body in a masked form—in the ...

Ecology Jul 10, 2024

Warming Baltic Sea: a red flag for global oceans

Climate change combined with pollution from farming and forestry could flip northern Europe's Baltic Sea from being a sponge for CO2 to a source of the planet-warming gas, scientists studying told AFP.

Astronomy Jul 10, 2024

Deep-mapping the night sky for hot stars

The next NASA space telescope to survey the ultraviolet sky has the fingerprint of an astronomer from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA). Assistant Professor Ylva Götberg is part of a large international ...

Earth Sciences Jul 10, 2024

The Gulf Stream is wind-powered and could weaken from climate change, research suggests

New evidence of changes to the Gulf Stream during the last ice age could indicate additional sensitivity to future climatic changes, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

Ecology Jul 9, 2024

Complete genome and toxin genes of the microalgae from the Oder River disaster decoded

In the summer of 2022, around 1,000 tons of fish, mussels and snails died in the River Oder. Although the disaster was manmade, the immediate cause of death was the toxin of a microalgae with the scientific collective name ...

Plants & Animals Jul 9, 2024

New database reveals presence of magnetic bacteria in animals

The remarkable ability of migratory animals to navigate and recall routes may be attributed to a sensitivity to not just Earth's magnetic fields, but perhaps an interaction with magnetic bacteria living inside them.

Plants & Animals Jul 9, 2024

What can sharks teach us about our hearts?

This time of year, it's hard to escape sharks—on TV at least. But perhaps that heartbeat-like theme from "Jaws"—da-dum, da-dum—has you wondering, "What might I learn about my own heart from a shark?"

Earth Sciences Jul 9, 2024

As ocean surfaces acidify, a deep-sea acidic zone is expanding, and marine habitats are being squeezed

In the deepest parts of the ocean, below 4,000 meters, the combination of high pressure and low temperature creates conditions that dissolve calcium carbonate, the material marine animals use to make their shells.

Nanophysics Jul 9, 2024

Detecting defects in tomorrow's technology: Study enhances understanding of likely candidate for next-generation chips

Silicon computer chips have served us well for more than half a century. The tiniest features on chips currently sold are approximately 3 nanometers—a startlingly small size given that a human hair is roughly 80,000 nanometers ...

Space Exploration Jul 9, 2024

Countdown to first launch of Europe's Ariane 6 rocket

After four years of delays, Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket is set to blast off for the first time on Tuesday, carrying with it the continent's hopes of regaining independent access to space.

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