Artificial membranes play a vital role in health care, energy storage and resource recovery. However, the fabrication is not environmentally friendly. In a thesis from Umeå University, Norafiqah Ismail in the Department ...
Polymers
Aug 25, 2023
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Public health officials are currently investigating a multi-state outbreak of Salmonella, a bacterial disease that causes diarrhea, fever and stomach cramps. According to an August 2023 investigation notice by the Atlanta-based ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 23, 2023
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Researchers at the Faculty of Biology at TUD Dresden University of Technology have investigated the interaction between genes and nutrition using the fruit fly as an example. Their results are surprising and show that minimal ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 23, 2023
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Americans in the Northeast paid greater attention to air quality alerts this summer as wildfire smoke thickened skies with an orange-tinted haze. Smoke and other sources of air pollution contain tiny particles, called fine ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 16, 2023
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In South Africa an estimated 8,000 lions are bred and kept in captivity for commercial purposes in more than 350 facilities. This is far more than the country's wild population, estimated at 3,500 individuals.
Plants & Animals
Aug 11, 2023
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In May, University of Florida scientists announced that they had unearthed high-quality, information-rich human DNA from nearly every spot they could think of. Rivers, beaches, oceans—even vacuumed up from the air.
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 10, 2023
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There is a global water crisis, and it is not only about the dwindling supply of clean water. Contaminated drinking water exposes hundreds of millions of people worldwide to toxins, such as bacteria, heavy metals, pesticides ...
Analytical Chemistry
Aug 10, 2023
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A review into loneliness inequalities conducted by some of the U.K.'s leading scholars in the field has highlighted key social and societal factors that lead to loneliness inequalities.
Social Sciences
Aug 10, 2023
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Winning at the annual AFL tipping competition is a lot of fun at work or the pub, but does that translate to a financially viable option in online sports betting sphere?
Social Sciences
Aug 10, 2023
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Investigating the building blocks of biology can lead to unexpected outcomes. That's what happened when researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory were exploring plant genetics. Although their ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 1, 2023
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