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Friday, November 21, 2025

Rice engineers show lab grown diamond films can stop costly mineral buildup in pipes

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Pulickel Ajayan and Xiang Zhang Photo Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University In industrial pipes, mineral deposits build up the way limescale c...

Forensic Science: In-Depth Description

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / stock image AI Forensic Science is the rigorous application of scientific principles and methods to mat...

Genetic Engineering: Changing the Number of Chromosomes in Plants Using Molecular Scissors

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For the first time, KIT researchers managed to reduce the number of chromosomes in a plant by fusing two chromosomes. Illustration Credit: M...

Evolutionary Biology: In-Depth Description

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / stock image Evolutionary Biology is the sub-discipline of biology that studies the evolutionary process...

An electric discovery: Pigeons detect magnetic fields through their inner ear

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Photo Credit:  Nancy Hughes In 1882, the French Naturalist Camille Viguier was amongst the first to propose the existence of a magnetic sens...

New stem cell medium creates contracting canine heart muscle cells

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Canine iPS cells cultured in a newly developed medium successfully differentiated into functional cardiomyocytes Image Credit: Osaka Metropo...

How the cheese-noodle principle could help counter Alzheimer's

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Jinghui Luo is a researcher at the Center for Life Sciences at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI. He studies accumulations of so-called amyloi...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Subverting Plasmids To Combat Antibiotic Resistance

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Two types of plasmids, colored red and blue, form intricate patterns as they compete for dominance in a bacterial colony. Image Credit: Fern...

Environmental Science: In-Depth Description

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Photo Credit:  Esa Kaifa Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical, biological, and information ...

Focused Ultrasound Passes First Test in Treatment of Brain Cancer in Children

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Pediatric oncologist Stergios Zacharoulis and biomedical engineer Elisa Konofagou are pioneering the use of focused ultrasound to treat brai...

5,500 toxic sites in U.S. at risk of flooding because of sea level rise

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U.S. face rising flood risks due to sea-level rise. Photo Credit:  Wes Warren More than 5,500 hazardous sites across the U.S. are projected ...

Innovation turns building vents into carbon-capture devices

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A carbon nanofiber-based direct air capture filter developed by the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering could tur...

Customised cells to fight brain cancer

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Visualisation of cell death induced by CAR-T cells. A real-time imaging experiment (images taken at 0, 5 and 10 minutes) shows a CAR-T cell ...

New type of DNA damage found in our cells’ powerhouses

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Linlin Zhao (left) and Yu Hsuan Chen Photo Credit: Courtesy of University of California, Riverside A previously unknown type of DNA damage i...

‘Worms in space’ experiment aims to investigate the biological effects of spaceflight

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Petri Pod Photo Credit: University of Exeter A crew of tiny worms will be heading on a mission to the International Space Station in 2026 th...