Europe possesses the science; now it requires the scale. A start-up summit backed by the EU is endeavoring to bridge that divide. By Tom Cassauwers In a conference venue on the outskirts of Brussels, networking reaches its peak as a DJ spins tracks in the background. On the floor, participants are demonstrating their innovations – […]

Researchers funded by the EU are utilizing silk-based bone marrow “factories” to cultivate platelets in laboratory settings, reducing our reliance on scarce donor blood resources. By Hannah Docter-Loeb Daily, hospitals depend on platelet transfusions to halt bleeding, assist cancer therapies, and facilitate recovery from surgeries and severe illnesses. However, one of the most crucial blood […]

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Somewhere in a poison control facility, a telephone rings, and the individual on the other end has been administering their weight-loss medication every single day. They were instructed to take it weekly. Even more concerning, they began at the full dosage instead of gradually increasing it. The call is documented, categorized in close to real-time […]

**Two Cups of Warm Water: Altering Light with Photon Upconversion** Two cups of warm water will never yield one cup of boiling water. Combine them, and you simply increase the total volume of lukewarm water, nothing beyond that. The energy does not accumulate in that manner. Nevertheless, at the level of individual light particles, that […]

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A razor blade drawn across a soft contact lens creates a notch approximately a third of the way deep, sufficient to refract light and attract attention. Illuminate that same lens with ultraviolet light for an hour at ambient temperature, and the notch repairs itself. The surface nearly returns to seamlessness. No heat, no adhesive, no […]