The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (Iupac) has announced its annual list of the top ten emerging technologies in chemistry. Several tackle environmental and sustainability challenges, while others address the ongoing pandemic, focusing on new solutions to prevent the spread of pathogens, and were picked by a panel of independent experts. ‘The panel […]

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (Iupac) has announced its annual list of the top ten emerging technologies in chemistry. Several tackle environmental and sustainability challenges, while others address the ongoing pandemic, focusing on new solutions to prevent the spread of pathogens, and were picked by a panel of independent experts. ‘The panel […]

Some countries with national health insurance plans face a basic problem: Not enough people sign up for those programs, and the ones who do tend to have worse-than-average health. That is a public health matter, but also a fiscal issue. When more healthy people enroll in health care plans, and thus pay premiums, those plans […]

I don’t have more free time.I have felt burnt out,compelled to refrainfrom complainingabout doing schoolwork,about loss of income,about living alone,about how to process change. My losses could be worse,I sometimes feel guiltyfor even comparingto those who have experiencedthe deathof loved ones. I have to remind myself thatmy problems are real,my feelings are valid,my pain does […]

Many Covid-19 patients have reported symptoms affecting the ears, including hearing loss and tinnitus. Dizziness and balance problems can also occur, suggesting that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may be able to infect the inner ear. A new study from MIT and Massachusetts Eye and Ear provides evidence that the virus can indeed infect cells of the […]

Spending on research and development will go up by £5 billion – to £20billion – over the next three years, with funding for Horizon Europe and overseas aid research earmarked for the rest of the parliament. While there’s disappointment in the science community that the chancellor did not meet his pledge of £22 billion by 2024–25, […]

Wood that can be moulded into complex shapes and sculpted into knives sharper than metal ones has been created by the inventors of bullet-proof and fire-retardant wood. Despite its environmental sustainability, wood’s relative inflexibility and lack of strength have until now counted against it for many purposes in favor of plastics and metals. But scientists […]

Researchers at MIT and Harvard University have designed a way to selectively turn on gene therapies in target cells, including human cells. Their technology can detect specific messenger RNA sequences in cells, and that detection then triggers production of a specific protein from a transgene, or artificial gene. Because transgenes can have negative and even […]

Since its first recorded sighting by European explorers in the 1600s, scientists and historians have believed that Europeans were the first people to ever set foot on the Falkland Islands. Findings from a new University of Maine-led study, however, suggests otherwise; that human activity on the islands predates European arrival by centuries. Kit Hamley, National […]

A new study shows that in the last two decades the death rate from Parkinson’s disease has risen about 63% in the United States. The research is published in the October 27, 2021, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The study also found that the death rate was […]