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16-Feb-2024 8:00 AM EST
Compounds in female ginseng could lead to new osteoporosis treatments
American Chemical Society (ACS)

Drugs for treating osteoporosis can be expensive and have side effects. In the search for alternative drug candidates, researchers reporting in ACS Central Science have discovered and fully replicated a compound from female ginseng that had potent anti-osteoporotic activity in cellular tests.

   
16-Feb-2024 8:00 AM EST
Mercury levels in tuna remain nearly unchanged since 1971, study says
American Chemical Society (ACS)

Tuna can build up high levels of methylmercury from feeding on contaminated prey. Despite efforts to reduce mercury emissions, researchers report in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology Letters that levels in tuna appear to be unchanged.

Newswise: Membrane Technology: Looking Deep into Smallest Pores
Released: 21-Feb-2024 4:05 AM EST
Membrane Technology: Looking Deep into Smallest Pores
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Membranes of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VaCNT) can be used to clean or desalinate water at high flow rate and low pressure. Recently, researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and partners carried out steroid hormone adsorption experiments to study the interplay of forces in the small pores. They found that VaCNT of specific pore geometry and pore surface structure are suited for use as highly selective membranes. The researchers report in Nature Communications. (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-44883-2)

Newswise: Rutgers Computer Scientist Named Sloan Fellow
20-Feb-2024 9:00 AM EST
Rutgers Computer Scientist Named Sloan Fellow
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

A Rutgers professor who studies and improves the design of algorithms – human-made instructions computers follow to solve problems and perform computations – has been selected to receive a 2024 Sloan Research Fellowship. Aaron Bernstein, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, was named one of 126 researchers drawn from a select group of 53 institutions in the U.S. and Canada.

Newswise: Study: Learning How Cells Dispose of Unwanted Materials is Key to Potential New Therapeutics
Released: 20-Feb-2024 9:05 AM EST
Study: Learning How Cells Dispose of Unwanted Materials is Key to Potential New Therapeutics
University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)

Are you sick and tired of getting sick and tired? A UNLV-led research team is exploring whether the reason we sometimes feel ill in the first place is because our body’s cells suffer from trash that accumulates within them.

   
Newswise: Advanced artificial photosynthesis catalyst uses CO2 more efficiently to create biodegradable plastics
Released: 16-Feb-2024 10:05 PM EST
Advanced artificial photosynthesis catalyst uses CO2 more efficiently to create biodegradable plastics
Osaka Metropolitan University

An innovative and more efficient way to produce fumaric acid that not only reduces carbon dioxide emissions, but also reuses waste resources to make biodegradable plastics.

Newswise: Plasma technology for more effective lithium extraction
Released: 16-Feb-2024 9:05 PM EST
Plasma technology for more effective lithium extraction
National Research Council of Science and Technology

Applying plasma technology increases efficiency by 3-fold. Confirmation of a novel approach for lithium extraction from brine.

Newswise: Chelsea Chen: Breaking barriers in energy storage
Released: 16-Feb-2024 4:45 PM EST
Chelsea Chen: Breaking barriers in energy storage
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Chelsea Chen, a polymer physicist at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is studying ion transport in solid electrolytes that could help electric vehicle battery charges last longer.

Newswise: Nanomedicine paves the way for new treatments for spinal cord injury
Released: 14-Feb-2024 10:05 PM EST
Nanomedicine paves the way for new treatments for spinal cord injury
Politecnico di Milano

A Study by Politecnico di Milano and Istituto Mario Negri has been published in Advanced Materials.

Released: 14-Feb-2024 1:05 PM EST
Key genes linked to DNA damage and human disease uncovered
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Scientists unveil 145 genes vital for genome health, and possible strategies to curb progression of human genomic disorders.

Newswise: Pesticides to help protect seeds can adversely affect earthworms’ health
9-Feb-2024 8:00 AM EST
Pesticides to help protect seeds can adversely affect earthworms’ health
American Chemical Society (ACS)

Research published in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology Letters reveals that worms are affected by small amounts of chemicals from pesticide-treated seeds.

Released: 13-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
NJIT Researchers Unveil Method to Detect 'Forever Chemicals' in Under 3 Minutes
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)

Researchers report one of the fastest and most sensitive approaches yet for detecting toxic per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) accumulating in the environment, which are linked to health risks ranging from cancers to birth defects.

Newswise: RUDN chemists create an emission molecular thermometer
Released: 12-Feb-2024 7:05 AM EST
RUDN chemists create an emission molecular thermometer
Scientific Project Lomonosov

RUDN University chemists have obtained a multifunctional complex - a quadruple framework compound of lanthanides.

Newswise: Conversion process turns greenhouse gas into ethylene
Released: 11-Feb-2024 8:05 PM EST
Conversion process turns greenhouse gas into ethylene
University of Cincinnati

Engineers at the University of Cincinnati created a more efficient way of converting carbon dioxide into valuable products while simultaneously addressing climate change.

Newswise: New process allows full recovery of starting materials from tough polymer composites
Released: 8-Feb-2024 2:20 PM EST
New process allows full recovery of starting materials from tough polymer composites
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

In a win for chemistry, inventors at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have designed a closed-loop path for synthesizing an exceptionally tough carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer and later recovering all of its starting materials.

Newswise: Versatile Light Control in WSe2 Achieved
Released: 8-Feb-2024 7:30 AM EST
Versatile Light Control in WSe2 Achieved
Chinese Academy of Sciences

In an intriguing study published in Light: Science & Application, researchers have unveiled the feasibility in the versatile manipulation of various exciton species within monolayer tungsten diselenide (WSe2), a transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs).

Newswise: Stable intense supercontinuum light generation from 1kHz femtosecond laser filamentation in air
Released: 8-Feb-2024 4:05 AM EST
Stable intense supercontinuum light generation from 1kHz femtosecond laser filamentation in air
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Supercontinuum (SC) white light generation in gases through ultrafast laser filamentation is in principle immune to damage. However, the bottleneck problem is that the strong jitters from filament induced self-heating at kHz repetition level.

Newswise: Revolutionizing Surface Science: A New Horizon in Superhydrophobic Materials
Released: 8-Feb-2024 3:05 AM EST
Revolutionizing Surface Science: A New Horizon in Superhydrophobic Materials
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Superhydrophobic surfaces, which repel water strongly, are useful for self-cleaning, anti-corrosion, and oil/water separation. Traditional methods to create these surfaces are complex and material-specific.

Newswise: Whole-infrared-band camouflage with dual-band radiative heat dissipation
Released: 7-Feb-2024 11:05 AM EST
Whole-infrared-band camouflage with dual-band radiative heat dissipation
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Advanced multispectral detection technologies have emerged as a significant threat to objects. To address the challenge, scientists in China proposed a whole-infrared-band camouflage device (covering the NIR, SWIR, MWIR, and LWIR bands), which exhibits remarkable camouflage performance against thermal emission and solar radiance.

Newswise: Inexpensive, carbon-neutral biofuels are finally possible
Released: 7-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
Inexpensive, carbon-neutral biofuels are finally possible
University of California, Riverside

When it comes to making fuel from plants, the first step has always been the hardest — breaking down the plant matter



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