Credit: Cell (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.08.020 A team of international researchers at the University of Oxford (Oxford) and NTU Singapore, has discovered a new process for repairing damaged DNA that is particularly relevant for patients undergoing colorectal cancer treatments. Reporting their finding in the journal Cell, the researchers describe a new process in DNA repair in … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The personal carbon footprint of the richest people in society is grossly underestimated, both by the rich themselves and by those on middle and lower incomes, no matter which country they come from. At the same time, both the rich and the poor drastically overestimate the carbon footprint of the poorest … Read more
The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS), one of the many accelerators in CERN’s complex that will benefit from the EPA project. Credit: CERN As particle accelerator technology moves into the high-luminosity era, the need for extreme precision and unprecedented collision energy keeps growing. Given also the Laboratory’s desire to reduce energy consumption and costs, the design … Read more
The new inexpensive smartphone-based digital holographic microscope provides a portable way to perform 3D measurements. Credit: Yuki Nagahama, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Researchers have developed a new smartphone-based digital holographic microscope that enables precision 3D measurements. The highly portable and inexpensive microscope could help bring 3D measurement capabilities to a broader range of … Read more
Model of MYC2 in the modulation of fatty acid and flavonoid biosynthesis under MeJA treatment. In the early stage of olive fruit development, accumulation of MeJA could decrease the expression of MYC2, which could repress fatty acid biosynthesis by downregulating the expression of BCCP2 though binding to the G-box within the promoter. Conversely, MYC2 was … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Online dating sites have become one of the more popular means for people to meet each other and explore the potential for a romantic relationship. But did you know that it’s the size of the online dating pool that could make or break your own quest for love? A new study … Read more
This bar graph shows GISTEMP summer global temperature anomalies for 2023 (shown in yellow) and 2024 (shown in red). June through August is considered meteorological summer in the Northern Hemisphere. The white lines indicate the range of estimated temperatures. The warmer-than-usual summers continue a long-term trend of warming, driven primarily by human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Earth will only remain able to provide even a basic standard of living for everyone in the future if economic systems and technologies are dramatically transformed and critical resources are more fairly used, managed and shared, according to an international research team including scientists from The Australian National University (ANU). The … Read more
In this July 2024 image, smoke rises from a wildfire burning in Jasper National Park in Canada. The wildfire devoured up to half of the main town. Images of towering wildfires tearing through forests and leaving a national park in cinders have kept many tourists away, putting one of Canada’s top industries on edge. The … Read more
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar have created a free-to-access online reference tool that scientists around the globe can use for investigating how the human body works at the molecular level and forming hypotheses to test with experimentation. Credit: Suhre/Halama Labs Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar (WCM-Q) have created an intricate molecular … Read more
