Technology

Credit: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c10812 A team of researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), led by Program Head of Chemistry Ali Trabolsi, have developed nanoscale covalent organic frameworks (nCOFs), crystalline organic polymers that have been modified with peptides to treat the most aggressive form of breast cancer, known as triple-negative breast … Read more

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The recent discovery of the Ug99 wheat stem rust strain in Nepal, published in the Plant Disease journal, has once again emphasized the need for vigilance to protect Nepal’s third most important food crop from any large-scale outbreaks of this devastating wheat disease. Nepal already contends with frequent large-scale outbreaks caused … Read more

A soil chamber in a field of sorghum is installed to collect near-continuous measurements of greenhouse gases. Credit: Nithya Rajan/Texas A&M AgriLife While agriculture producers apply nitrogen fertilizer to supply nutrients to their crops, they can’t always keep those nutrients in the soil for maximum efficiency, often losing them into the atmosphere or water supply … Read more

Effects of feeds on body weight of rats. (A) Mean body weight distribution of rats fed different diets. (B) Mean body weight distribution of rats in different genders. (C) Changes in body weight of rats over time; (C1) Female; (C2) Male. Credit: Food Science of Animal Products (2024). DOI: 10.26599/FSAP.2024.9240068 As the global population grows … Read more

This image made from a NASA live stream shows NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore during a press conference from the International Space Station on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. Credit: NASA via AP Stuck-in-space astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said Friday it was hard to watch their Boeing capsule return to Earth without … Read more