Researchers create nanostructures for efficient and sustainable degradation of pollutants

Researchers create nanostructures for efficient and sustainable degradation of pollutants

Au-BiFeO3 nanocrystals are efficient and sustainable photocatalysts for environmental purification, offering insights into advanced material design for solar energy utilization. Credit: Tokyo Tech The need for sustainable and environment-friendly solutions has accelerated the global demand for green and renewable technologies. In this regard, semiconductor photocatalysts have emerged as an attractive solution, owing to their potential … Read more

Doctors Combined a Heart Pump and Pig Kidney Transplant in Breakthrough Surgery

Doctors Combined a Heart Pump and Pig Kidney Transplant in Breakthrough Surgery

The kidney used in the latest NYU transplant was procured from a pig with a single genetic edit—the removal of a gene that produces a sugar known as alpha gal. This sugar appears on the surface of pig cells and seems to be responsible for rapid rejection in humans. The pig was engineered by Revivicor, … Read more

Modeling broader effects of wildfires in Siberia

Modeling broader effects of wildfires in Siberia

Estimated mortality and economic impacts of enhanced Siberian wildfires through air pollution for selected East Asian countries and Russian administrative districts under the present climate condition with the most extreme wildfire scenario estimated by the modeling. (Teppei J. Yasunari, et al. Earth’s Future. April 24, 2024). Credit: Teppei J. Yasunari, et al. Earth’s Future. April … Read more

Doctors combine a pig kidney transplant and a heart device in a bid to extend woman’s life

Doctors combine a pig kidney transplant and a heart device in a bid to extend woman’s life

NEW YORK — Doctors have transplanted a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman who was near death, part of a dramatic pair of surgeries that also stabilized her failing heart. Lisa Pisano’s combination of heart and kidney failure left her too sick to qualify for a traditional transplant, and out of options. Then doctors … Read more

Lunar landforms indicate geologically recent seismic activity on the moon

Lunar landforms indicate geologically recent seismic activity on the moon

Global random spatial age distribution (0–250 million years) of 34 lunar lobate scarps in this study. Credit: Credit: Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118636 The moon’s steadfast illumination of our night sky has been a source of wonder and inspiration for millennia. Since the first satellite images of its surface were taken in … Read more

Argentine students protest funding cuts to public universities

Argentine students protest funding cuts to public universities

Credit: JOSE LUIS VAZQUEZ from Pexels Tens of thousands of Argentine university students took to the streets Tuesday to protest cuts to higher public education, research and science under budget-slashing new President Javier Milei. Joined by professors and alumni from the economic crisis-riddled South American country’s 57 state-run universities, they rose up “in defense of … Read more

NASA releases satellite photos of record UAE flooding

NASA releases satellite photos of record UAE flooding

NASA released photos of parts of Dubai and Abu Dhabi before and after the United Arab Emirates was hit by record rainfall last week that caused dangerous floods and paralyzed much of the country. The images, taken by NASA Earth Observatory on Friday using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey, show large patches of … Read more

Victims of China floods race to salvage property

Victims of China floods race to salvage property

Workers cleared debris from a flooded areas. Victims of severe floods in southern China raced on Wednesday to salvage property from the muddy waters as authorities warned of more heavy rains to come. Massive downpours have struck Guangdong province in recent days, triggering deluges that have claimed the lives of four people and forced the … Read more

Future hurricanes could compromise New England forests’ ability to store and sequester carbon

Future hurricanes could compromise New England forests’ ability to store and sequester carbon

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Nature-based climate solutions can help mitigate climate change, especially in forested regions capable of storing and sequestering vast amounts of carbon. New research published in Global Change Biology indicates that a single hurricane in New England, one of the most heavily forested regions in the United States, can down 4.6–9.4% of … Read more

South Korean marginalized communities developed ‘disaster subculture’ living through extreme climate events, study finds

South Korean marginalized communities developed ‘disaster subculture’ living through extreme climate events, study finds

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Locations around the globe are experiencing climate disasters on a regular basis. But some of the most marginalized populations experience disasters so often it has come to be normalized. A new study from the University of Kansas found residents of one Seoul, South Korea, neighborhood have grown so accustomed to living … Read more