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Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email President Joe Biden will not face charges for “willfully” holding onto classified documents after he left office as vice president, according to the final report released by Special counsel Robert Hur. … Read more
A team of scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed an artificial ‘worm gut’ to break down plastics, offering hope for a nature-inspired method to tackle the global plastic pollution problem. By feeding worms with plastics and cultivating microbes found in their guts, researchers from NTU’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering … Read more
The IPK research team asked how biomass allocation to wheat organs changes under canopy shade and what is the genetic basis for such changes. Credit: IPK Leibniz Institute Recent studies have shown a strong correlation between responses to plant density and low light, indicating that the scarcity of light is often a limiting factor in … Read more
Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email President Joe Biden “wilfully” held on to classified materials that were discovered at his home in Delaware and the office of a think tank in Washington DC, but should not face … Read more
Tap into any social media platform, turn on the television or cue up a podcast, and it is easy to find examples of hypocrisy or bad behavior in political discourse, and new research from University of Nebraska-Lincoln political scientists may explain why. The findings from a large survey study, co-authored by Kyle Hull, Kevin Smith … Read more
A polymer, functionalized carbon fibers and a crosslinker are mixed and cured. The components can be retrieved by addition of an alcohol, pinacol. Credit: Philip Gray and Anisur Rahman/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy In a win for chemistry, inventors at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have designed a closed-loop path for synthesizing … Read more
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Who knew you could see plankton from space? NASA, of course. The space agency successfully launched a new mission today called PACE — short for the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem satellite — that will study its namesake. It’ll examine microscopic plants and particles — things so small they’re invisible to the naked eye — from … Read more
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Rishi Sunak was facing a mounting backlash over his controversial trans joke on Thursday, with senior minister Penny Mordaunt taking aim at the prime minister. His joke on Wednesday about trans people, made … Read more
Cells in the human body contain power-generating mitochondria, each with their own mtDNA — a unique set of genetic instructions entirely separate from the cell’s nuclear DNA that mitochondria use to create life-giving energy. When mtDNA remains where it belongs (inside of mitochondria), it sustains both mitochondrial and cellular health — but when it goes … Read more
This illustration shows how the researchers created their thick, porous nanocomposite antifouling coating (from left to right). With the help of nozzle-assisted printing, they locally coated only the working electrode of an electrochemical sensor with an oil-in-water emulsion. Following the evaporation of tiny oil bubbles, an bovine serum albumin (BSA)-based nanocomposite scaffold remains with an … Read more
