Eating low glycaemic index foods promotes a healthier body shape in patients with coronary artery disease, according to a study presented at ACNAP-EuroHeartCare Congress 2022, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).1 The glycaemic index (GI) ranks carbohydrate-containing foods according to how quickly they affect blood sugar levels. High GI foods cause […]

A study using 10 years of citizen science data from the Bumblebee Conservation Trust’s BeeWalk scheme has found that a variety of targeted conservation approaches are needed to protect UK bumblebee species. The findings are published the British Ecological Society’s Journal of Applied Ecology. Researchers at the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the […]

Researchers have reported two copper complexes supported by aluminium or gallium metalloligands, featuring two-centre/one-electron σ bonds.1 The unusual complexes were synthesised by reducing the preceding cationic copper(i)⇢metal(iii) species and are the first examples of odd-electron σ bonds for the heavier group 13 elements.  Linus Pauling first proposed odd-electron σ bonds in 1931.2 Despite their importance to chemical […]

Definition of moonstruck: affected by or as if by the moon: such as: mentally unbalanced There was a total lunar eclipse on Monday 16 May. This celestial event was, of course, widely announced in advance on social media, with experts giving start and end times as well as duration. They also give detailed explanation of why, […]

The Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) at MIT has awarded eight MIT principal investigators with 2022 J-WAFS seed grants. The grants support innovative MIT research that has the potential to have significant impact on water- and food-related challenges. The only program at MIT that is dedicated to water- and food-related research, […]

Forming metal into the shapes needed for various purposes can be done in many ways, including casting, machining, rolling, and forging. These processes affect the sizes and shapes of the tiny crystalline grains that make up the bulk metal, whether it be steel, aluminum or other widely used metals and alloys. Now researchers at MIT […]

Twisted in a spiral of spite,two stars collide in pain –shockwaves of remorsethat echo over lengthsonce impossibleto fathom.Seared in desperate ragethese remnants of conflictgather dustin the voidof our betweens.Scattered over burning sands,the violence of their birthetched into facesthat we tracewith trembling hands. The Hypatia stone, discovered by geologist Aly Barakat in 1996 (Image Credit: Dr […]

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have developed several new varieties of wheat that tolerate soils with higher salt concentrations. After having mutated a wheat variety from Bangladesh, they now have a wheat with seeds that weigh three times more and that germinate almost twice as often as the original variety. The wheat, which grows […]

Scientists from the University of Birmingham have shown an existing drug may reduce damage after spinal cord injury, by blocking the inflammatory response in the spinal cord. Their research, published today in Clinical and Translational Medicine, demonstrates that AZD1236, a drug developed by AstraZeneca, can significantly reduce ‘secondary damage’ caused by the body’s response to spinal […]

Researchers have reported a nano-sized neuromorphic memory device that emulates neurons and synapses simultaneously in a unit cell, another step toward completing the goal of neuromorphic computing designed to rigorously mimic the human brain with semiconductor devices. Neuromorphic computing aims to realize artificial intelligence (AI) by mimicking the mechanisms of neurons and synapses that make […]