Leo Wilson

Ukraine-Russia war live: 20 dead in Russian border city Belgorod after Kyiv launches retaliatory strikes

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Kyiv suffers largest ever drone attack by Russia leaving five wounded For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Russia said 20 people, including two children, have been killed in “indiscriminate” Ukrainian strikes on the Russian … Read more

Inside the matrix: Nanoscale patterns revealed within model research organism

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Species throughout the animal kingdom feature vital interfaces between the outermost layers of their bodies and the environment. Intricate microscopic structures — featured on the outer skin layers of humans, as one example — are known to assemble in matrix patterns. But how these complex structures, known as apical extracellular matrices (aECMs) are assembled into … Read more

Novel electrification strategy enhances low-temperature NOx removal

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The procedure of electrified NOx storage–reduction. Credit: NIMTE Prof. Zhang Jian’s group from the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, cooperating with Prof. Zhang Zhaoliang’s group from University of Jinan, has developed a novel electrification strategy to improve NOx pollutant removal performance at low temperatures. The study was … Read more

Location, location, location: The hidden power of intracellular neighborhoods

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Back in 2018, the lab of Christine Mayr, MD, PhD, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) introduced the world to a key cellular component that had been hiding in plain sight. Now the lab is back with important results that build on that discovery. New findings published in Molecular Cell provide details about the … Read more

Study of Mongolian Arc adds to mystery surrounding its purpose

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Drone photo of Khaltaryn Balgas (MA21). Credit: Journal of Field Archaeology (2023). DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2023.2295198 A team of archaeologists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, working with a colleague from the National University of Mongolia, has conducted a study of the 405-km wall system in eastern Mongolia known as the Mongolian Arc in order … Read more

Two types of CBT are equally effective in the treatment of fibromyalgia

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There does not appear to be any profound differences between so-called exposure-based CBT and traditional CBT in the treatment of fibromyalgia, according to a study led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet. Both forms of treatment produced a significant reduction in symptoms in people affected by the disease. The study is one of the largest to … Read more

JWST sets a new record, sees newly forming stars in the Triangulum galaxy

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Galaxy M33 (Triangulum Galaxy) as seen by Hubble Space Telescope. JWST was used recently to observe sites in its southern arm where newly forming stars (YSOs) appear to lie. Our Milky Way bristles with giant molecular clouds birthing stars. Based on what we see here, astronomers assume that the process of star creation also goes … Read more

Scientists decry wasted opportunity as thousands of frozen eggs languish in IVF storage across Australia | Medical research

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The vast majority of eggs frozen by prospective mothers go unused, causing headaches for IVF clinics and preventing potentially groundbreaking research. Scientists are decrying a wasted opportunity as thousands of frozen eggs sit unused in storage instead of being used in potentially valuable medical research. Hopeful mothers froze more than 3,000 eggs at Monash IVF … Read more