Genetically modified bacteria may eat up ocean plastic waste ( interestingengineering.com )
The research team conducted experiments involving two bacterial species: Vibrio natriegens and Ideonella sakaiensis....
Green hydrogen successfully produced from plastic waste ( interestingengineering.us9.list-manage.com )
Low-emissions strategy that could pay for itself helps scientists achieve high-yield hydrogen gas and high-value graphene.
World Community Grid passes 820,000 years of donated computation time towards finding new genetic predictors of cancer ( www.worldcommunitygrid.org )
World Community Grid is a volunteer computing project where people can donate their computer's spare computational power to science (similar to folding@home). This week they announced some results of their research and having passed the 800,000 CPU-year mark which is pretty incredible....
A novel approach for removing microplastics from water ( phys.org )
Chinese scientists have developed a gene-editing tool that doesn’t use CRISPR ( www.scmp.com )
New Study Highlights Feasibility and Optimization of Ammonia-Based Power Generation for Carbon Neutrality ( news.unist.ac.kr )
CRISPR used to 'reprogram' cancer cells into healthy muscle in the lab ( www.livescience.com )
Research paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2303859120
90% Reduction: Scientists Discover Natural Molecule That Eradicates Plaques and Cavities ( scitechdaily.com )
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Most bees live underground. X-ray images reveal how they build their nests ( www.science.org )
Research paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016706123003324
Global trends in incidence, death, burden and risk factors of early-onset cancer from 1990 to 2019 ( bmjoncology.bmj.com )
Zhao J, Xu L, Sun J, et al Global trends in incidence, death, burden and risk factors of early-onset cancer from 1990 to 2019 BMJ Oncology 2023;2:e000049. doi: 10.1136/bmjonc-2023-000049...
Observation of an Alice ring in a Bose–Einstein condensate - Nature Communications ( www.nature.com )
New Genes and Natural Toxins Offer Hope for Cancer Patients Unresponsive to Chemotherapy ( www.qmul.ac.uk )
VFX Artist Reveals the TRUE Scale of NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS ( yewtu.be )
Discovery Opens Possibility of New Ion Channel-Targeting Drugs ( news.weill.cornell.edu )
Using Evidence From Last Ice Age, Scientists Predict Effects of Rising Seas on Coastal Habitats ( www.rutgers.edu )
Blood Clotting Proteins Might Help Predict Long COVID Brain Fog ( www.scientificamerican.com )
Newly Engineered Bacterial Enzyme Versions Reveal How Antibiotics Could Be More Potent ( nyulangone.org )
Upcycled plastic can be turned into soap, researchers find ( scrippsnews.com )
Researchers at Virginia Tech have found a way to upcycle plastic into soap. Around 120 grams to 130 grams of plastic can make 100 grams of soap.
New study finds microplastics infiltrate all systems of body, alter behaviour ( www.sustainableplastics.com )
Good bit of science detective work (image manipulation, paper now retracted) ( www.pnas.org )
Reasonably speedy retraction this time, six months from when the problems were first noted on PubPeer (https://pubpeer.com/publications/58E5F4120AB02E9565E3B4DE303EC3). Nine years after publication......
Rainforest study: Scientists now know the temperature at which photosynthesis stops ( grist.org )
Scientists find way to wipe a cell's memory to reprogram it as a stem cell ( www.uwa.edu.au )
In an important breakthrough (to cats), scientists figure out why cats love tuna so much ( www.science.org )
Ever wonder why cats love tuna? Well apparently a bunch of scientists did too, and they found the answer: the umami flavor (savoriness in English, I guess), is a cat's most favorite (as opposed to mine, which is definitely sweet).
Interview with Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman (mRNA vaccine inventors) ( www.youtube.com )
I made a lemmy community specifically about scientific computing ( lemmy.ml )
If you are interested in the topic, come on over...
