The EU on Tuesday announced proposals to try to reverse an "alarming decline" in the number of bees—and other insects that pollinate the bloc's crops—including by rewarding organic farming.
Ecology
Jan 24, 2023
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Spiropyrans are chemicals that change color when you shine light on them—a useful property in many areas of medicine and technology. Now 3mE's Georgy Filonenko (MSE) and his colleague, Richard Janissen at the Faculty of ...
Polymers
Jan 17, 2023
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How safe are the nanoparticles in transparent sunscreen, anti-odor socks and bacteria-resistant plasters? Although microbes are present on all organisms, the tools that estimate the safety of nanomaterials still hardly take ...
Bio & Medicine
Jan 4, 2023
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The U.K.'s national synchrotron facility, Diamond Light Source, was used by a large, international collaboration to study grains collected from a near-Earth asteroid to further our understanding of the evolution of our solar ...
Astronomy
Dec 19, 2022
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Compared to other senses, our sense of smell is often overlooked. Our noses can alert us to risks such as rotten food, gas leaks and burning toast. But for advanced tasks such as detecting bombs or contraband, or diseases ...
Biotechnology
Dec 15, 2022
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Researchers are using a natural material derived from seaweed to promote vascular cell growth, prevent blood clots and improve the performance of synthetic vascular grafts used in heart bypass surgery.
Materials Science
Dec 5, 2022
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Ecosystem ecology studies often focus on what's happening to plants above ground, for instance exploring photosynthesis or water loss in leaves. But what is happening below the ground in plant roots is equally important when ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 28, 2022
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As the largest family of geckos, Gekkonidae shows high levels of endemism in karst systems. Hemiphyllodactylus (commonly known as half leaf-fingered geckos, dwarf geckos, or slender geckos), belongs to the family Gekkonidae. ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 21, 2022
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Air pollutants kill around 7 million people every year. Much of this pollution is tiny particles suspended in the air which, when inhaled, can cause people to develop heart and lung diseases, as well as cancer.
Environment
Nov 17, 2022
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Artificial intelligence, "building-block" chemistry and a molecule-making machine teamed up to find the best general reaction conditions for synthesizing chemicals important to biomedical and materials research—a finding ...
Materials Science
Oct 28, 2022
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