9/11 World Trade Center Firefighters 13% More Likely To Develop Cancer
And they are younger, on average, when diagnosed with the disease. Firefighters who worked at the World Trade Center following the 9/11 attacks in 2001 are 13% more likely than…
Scientists Uncover New Opportunities for Light-Powered Battery and Fuel Cell Design
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Hiroshima Institute of Technology, et al. induced substantial motion of oxide ions within perovskite crystals by using pulses of ultraviolet…
Vitamin E, CoQ10 and GSH Supplements Reverse Heart Damage Caused by Cancer in Scientific Study
Vitamin E supplements, as well as the antioxidants CoQ10 and GSH, reversed heart damage in fruit flies caused by a tumor. Study Links Free Radicals to Heart Damage Caused by…
Astronomers Nail Down the Origins of Rare Loner Dwarf Galaxies
In this image, the fall of a blue ultra-diffuse galaxy into a galaxy system and its subsequent ejection as a red ultra-diffuse galaxy, is depicted. Credit: MIT The results provide…
Atomically-Thin, Twisted Graphene Has Unique Properties That Could Advance Quantum Computing
New collaborative research describes how electrons move through two different configurations of bilayer graphene, the atomically-thin form of carbon. These results provide insights that researchers could use to design more…
Geckos Glide, Crash-Land, but Don’t Fall
An Asian flat-tailed house gecko, Hemidactylus platyurus. Videos of these geckos, common in the forests of Singapore, showed that their tails allow them to recover effectively from crash landings on…
What Is Causing All These New Coronavirus Variants? Is It the COVID–19 Vaccines?
The huge number of active coronavirus infections offers plenty of opportunity for mutations to occur and new variants to arise. Massive numbers of new COVID–19 infections are the main driver…
New Research Center To Tackle Space Junk Traffic Dangers
Illustration showing some of the hazards that the new Center for Space Domain Awareness will investigate. Credit/Copyright: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick University of Warwick convenes researchers to investigate challenges of…
Negative Triangularity – A Positive for Tokamak Fusion Power Reactors
By U.S. Department of Energy September 11, 2021 The Science Tokamak devices use strong magnetic fields to confine and shape the plasma that contains the fuel that achieves fusion. The…
Hysterectomy can be avoided for common gynecological condition — ScienceDaily
Adenomyosis — an abnormal tissue growth into the muscular wall of the uterus that causes painful cramps and heavy or prolonged menstrual bleeding — is more common than generally appreciated,…
