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Pathogens, the invisible historians

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

Before Covid-19, it was the world's deadliest disease. In 2018, the World Health Organization estimated ten million people actively infected and nearly 1.5 million deaths. Many millions of people continue to be infected with it every year. Between a third and a quarter of humanity carries the pathogen - usually without symptoms and without being infectious. About ten percent of those infected fall ill. This makes it one of the most dangerous infections. Tuberculosis. Similar to bubonic plague,...

Cause of mass death of bald eagles discovered

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

With criminalistic flair, researchers have solved the mystery surrounding the mysterious mass death of bald eagles in the southeastern United States. The cause is a toxin formed by blue-green algae, as a team led by Timo Niedermeyer of the University of Halle-Wittenberg and Susan Wilde of the University of Georgia writes in the journal Science. Bald eagles, as well as other birds in the region, have been suffering from a disease of the nerves since the 1990s. The animals lose control of their...

Mathematical modelling could reduce infection rates

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

A quick scan of the cell phone display and the long-awaited entrance to a movie theater, a concert, a handball hall, or even a store that offers something other than groceries, medications, and other everyday necessities opens up. Is this what an important step on the long road out of the Covid 19 lockdown looks like? Virologist Bernhard Fleckenstein of the University of Erlangen can very well imagine it: "An app on a cell phone shows the negative result of a Covid 19 antigen test from the same...

Artificial snow to preserve glaciers

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

Felix Keller is visibly excited. He doesn't seem to mind the double-digit temperatures at 2100 meters above sea level at the Diavolezza valley station in the Upper Engadine. Anything else would be strange, of course. After all, ice is Keller's element: he is a glaciologist. And the 58-year-old Swiss has been working towards this moment for a long time - the opening of a test facility for snow-making on glaciers. In the livestream documenting the event, the sound drops out every now and then...

Climate fight looks to CO2 storage

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

On the roof of the waste incineration plant in Hinwil near Zurich, the air is as low in carbon dioxide as it was before industrialization began. That's because there's a giant filter there: fans guide air currents through a material that uses a chemical reaction to dissolve out around half of the greenhouse gas it contains. The technology developed by the Swiss company Climeworks could become a key instrument for global climate protection. When carbon dioxide is pressed into porous rock layers,...

Mystery solved: The origins of flying dinosaurs

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

Fossils of pterosaurs, the earliest reptiles to evolve powered flight, were unearthed in the 19th Century but their evolution has remained a mystery. They were around for more than 150 million years until the end of the Mesozoic Era, about 66 million years ago. Recently, scientists using new fossils and an imaging tool called x-ray microcomputed tomography (micro-CT) have unraveled their development. The solution of the mystery not only revealed a sister species of pterosaurs which share a...

Climate Change and Mathematical Modelling Illusions

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

For the past three decades, human-caused global warming alarmists have tried to frighten the public with stories of doom and gloom. They tell us that the end of the world as we know it is nigh as a result of carbon dioxide emitted into the air by the burning of fossil fuels. They are exercising precisely what journalist H. L. Mencken, the sage of Baltimore, described early in the past century: "the whole point of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be lead...

Antibiotic shows antiviral potential

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

Researchers at Yale have discovered that a type of antibiotic surprisingly displays antiviral properties in mice.

Antibiotics are known to attack and kill bacteria. However, scientists were recently intrigued to observe that a class of antibiotics showed protection for viruses in a study carried out on mice. 

The researchers focussed on one antibiotic called neomycin, which is used to treat bacterial infections. The study showed that neomycin had antiviral properties, which protected the mice...

Do Animals Have Supernatural powers?

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

Credit: Wikipedia, Kallerna, Creative Commons In my book titled : "Exact Lies of Social Engineering - The Silent Noises of the Poor", I analyse the mathematical aspects of balancing imagination and logic in the digestive system of the real world, as a way of looking at the ideas of tomorrow! But in the earliest time when both people and animals lived on the earth, a person could appear to become animal if he wanted to and an animal could become a human being. Nature was natural and was...

A green way of coloring denims blue

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

A new research study led by the University of California, Berkeley engineering Professor John Dueber has shown that indigo dye, widely used in denim to give its trademark color can be produced using "green" technology.

The current chemical process for dyeing jeans is "environmentally hazardous, not only from the chemicals required for indigo synthesis but also in the excess of a chemical to dissolve indigo to enable dyeing," says Dueber.

Indigo dyeing is an ancient technique widely used nowadays...

Future smart devices might provide you with a feel for virtual textures and shapes

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

Imagine you are browsing the just-released iPhone that you would like to purchase on your tablet. Normally, what would that entail? A trip to the nearest store. However, what if your tablet allows you to virtually feel the texture and shape of that coveted iPhone by sitting in the comforts of your home? Sounds enticing and beats a trip to the Apple store, isn't it?

This is the experience that a group of researchers at Northwestern University and France's Aix Marseille University would like you...

Body clock research wins the 2017 Nobel prize in physiology

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

On 2nd October 2017, the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology was awarded to three American scientists Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young, for their work on the body clock, also known as the circadian rhythm. Your body clock is why you wake up at 7 am on a Saturday, even though you can have a lie in and why people suffer from jet lag when they go on international flights. The body clock is synced up with how the earth rotates and makes sure that our bodies do different...

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