Whales and dolphins get their nutrients and essential elements through their diet. While eating fish, squid, octopus, crustaceans and other marine mammals, they are also exposed to heavy metal contaminants. Elevated levels of toxins have been found in stranded dolphins and whales along the Southeastern Coast of the United States. Monitoring toxic contaminants in these … Read more
Tailoring morphology symmetry of BiVO4 photocatalyst from octahedral to truncated octahedral crystals leads to the quite different separation of photogenerated charges and a significantly improved charge separation efficiency. The built-in electric field for driving photogenerated charge separation is considered to be modulated by tuning the morphology symmetry. Credit: Science China Press In a study published … Read more
Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter It’s 5pm and I leave work on the dot. I hop on the train at 5.11pm and hop off at 5.43pm, meaning I’m … Read more
The sea lamprey, a 500-million-year-old animal with a sharp-toothed suction cup for a mouth, is the thing of nightmares. A new study from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research discovered that the hindbrain — the part of the brain controlling vital functions like blood pressure and heart rate — of both sea lampreys and humans … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Lockdown drills, practiced to help prepare children for shooting incidents at school, make those who have been exposed to violence feel safer, a new study of thousands of students in the US indicates. The finding, reported in a paper published in the Journal of School Violence, contradicts claims that the drills … Read more
AT&T users facing cell service outages nationwide Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter AT&T has said that a massive outage that left people unable to make calls – including to 911 – was not caused by a cyber attack. The provider … Read more
“There’s a narrative out there about climate change that says there are winners and losers. Even if most of the planet might lose from the changing climate, certain industries and countries stand to benefit. And Russia is usually at the tip of people’s tongues, with Russian officials even making the claim that Russia is a … Read more
Agrobacterium rhizogenes- and Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation in rubber dandelion. Representative phenotypes of a (A) rubber dandelion wild-type (WT) plant regenerated from a root fragment, (B) transgenic rubber dandelion plant transformed with WT A. rhizogenes K599, (C) transgenic plant transformed with A. rhizogenes harboring the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein (Cas) 9 expression … Read more
The United States has returned to the lunar surface for the first time in more than 50 years after a privately-built spacecraft named Odysseus capped a nail-biting 73-minute descent from orbit with a touchdown near the moonâs south pole. Amid celebrations of what Nasa hailed âa giant leap forwardâ, there was no immediate confirmation of … Read more
Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter A lunar lander built by a US spaceflight company has become the first privately owned spacecraft to land on the Moon. Intuitive Machines’s Nova-C Odysseus lander touched down on the Moon’s south pole region at … Read more
