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Released: 26-Feb-2024 11:45 AM EST
Latest Science Shows Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Plastics, Pesticides, and Other Sources Pose Health Threats Globally
Endocrine Society

A report from the world’s leading scientific and medical experts on hormone-related health conditions raises new concerns about the profound threats to human health from endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) that are ubiquitous in our surroundings and everyday lives.

Newswise: Roswell Park Study First to Show Two-Drug Combination Selectively Targets p53-Mutant Cancers
Released: 26-Feb-2024 11:30 AM EST
Roswell Park Study First to Show Two-Drug Combination Selectively Targets p53-Mutant Cancers
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

A preclinical study led by a team of researchers at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center highlights the potential of a novel two-drug treatment strategy targeting p53-mutant cancers.

Released: 26-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
‘Artificial tongue’ detects and inactivates common mouth bacteria
American Chemical Society (ACS)

Identifying the microorganisms behind a dental infection can be a lengthy and expensive process. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces have designed a chemical sensor array, or an artificial tongue, that distinguishes dental bacteria and can inactivate them.

   
Newswise: Tattoo inks don’t match the ingredients listed on the bottle
Released: 26-Feb-2024 8:00 AM EST
Tattoo inks don’t match the ingredients listed on the bottle
Binghamton University, State University of New York

When you get a tattoo, do you know what you’re putting under your skin? According to new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York, the ingredient labels on tattoo ink don’t match the actual substances in the bottle.

Newswise: Nanoscale Engineers Receive $1.2 Million to Prevent Surface Pathogens
Released: 23-Feb-2024 3:05 PM EST
Nanoscale Engineers Receive $1.2 Million to Prevent Surface Pathogens
Stony Brook University

UT Battelle LLC, a management contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science, has awarded $1.2 million to Stony Brook University researchers for a study to test surface pathogen prevention.

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Released: 22-Feb-2024 7:05 PM EST
Yale chemists synthesize unique anticancer molecules using novel approach
Yale University

Nearly 30 years ago, scientists discovered a unique class of anticancer molecules in a family of bryozoans, a phylum of marine invertebrates found in tropical waters.

Released: 21-Feb-2024 3:05 PM EST
Snaking toward a universal antivenom
Scripps Research Institute

Scripps Research scientists discovered antibodies that protect against a host of lethal snake venoms.

   
Released: 21-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
Long COVID can happen to anyone. Keep up with the latest research on Long COVID on Newswise
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Stay informed! These are the latest research articles on "Long COVID" from the Coronavirus News Source on Newswise.

Newswise: C.M. Tokë Vandervoort selected as ACS General Counsel
Released: 21-Feb-2024 2:00 PM EST
C.M. Tokë Vandervoort selected as ACS General Counsel
American Chemical Society (ACS)

The American Chemical Society (ACS) is pleased to announce the appointment of C.M. Vandervoort, who goes by Tokë, as its next General Counsel. She will succeed Flint Lewis, Secretary and General Counsel, who will retire on April 1 after nearly 30 years of service to ACS.

Newswise: Study Details Toxic Elements Found in Stranded Whales, Dolphins Over 15 Years
Released: 21-Feb-2024 8:30 AM EST
Study Details Toxic Elements Found in Stranded Whales, Dolphins Over 15 Years
Florida Atlantic University

Researchers evaluated the prevalence, concentration and tissue distribution of essential and non-essential trace elements, including heavy metal toxicants in tissue (blubber, kidney, liver, skeletal muscle, skin) and fecal samples. Findings reveal how toxicant levels relate to their sex, breed, age and other demographic factors.

16-Feb-2024 8:00 AM EST
Mercury levels in tuna remain nearly unchanged since 1971, study says
American Chemical Society (ACS)

Tuna can build up high levels of methylmercury from feeding on contaminated prey. Despite efforts to reduce mercury emissions, researchers report in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology Letters that levels in tuna appear to be unchanged.

16-Feb-2024 8:00 AM EST
Compounds in female ginseng could lead to new osteoporosis treatments
American Chemical Society (ACS)

Drugs for treating osteoporosis can be expensive and have side effects. In the search for alternative drug candidates, researchers reporting in ACS Central Science have discovered and fully replicated a compound from female ginseng that had potent anti-osteoporotic activity in cellular tests.

   
16-Feb-2024 8:00 AM EST
Highways through historically redlined areas likely cause air pollution disparities today
American Chemical Society (ACS)

Historically "redlined" areas – neighborhoods with primarily Black or immigrant communities – are exposed to more air pollution than other urban neighborhoods. According to research published in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology, the cause could relate to nearby highways or industrial parks.

Newswise: Membrane Technology: Looking Deep into Smallest Pores
Released: 21-Feb-2024 4:05 AM EST
Membrane Technology: Looking Deep into Smallest Pores
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Membranes of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VaCNT) can be used to clean or desalinate water at high flow rate and low pressure. Recently, researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and partners carried out steroid hormone adsorption experiments to study the interplay of forces in the small pores. They found that VaCNT of specific pore geometry and pore surface structure are suited for use as highly selective membranes. The researchers report in Nature Communications. (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-44883-2)

Newswise: Rutgers Computer Scientist Named Sloan Fellow
20-Feb-2024 9:00 AM EST
Rutgers Computer Scientist Named Sloan Fellow
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

A Rutgers professor who studies and improves the design of algorithms – human-made instructions computers follow to solve problems and perform computations – has been selected to receive a 2024 Sloan Research Fellowship. Aaron Bernstein, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, was named one of 126 researchers drawn from a select group of 53 institutions in the U.S. and Canada.

Newswise: Study: Learning How Cells Dispose of Unwanted Materials is Key to Potential New Therapeutics
Released: 20-Feb-2024 9:05 AM EST
Study: Learning How Cells Dispose of Unwanted Materials is Key to Potential New Therapeutics
University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)

Are you sick and tired of getting sick and tired? A UNLV-led research team is exploring whether the reason we sometimes feel ill in the first place is because our body’s cells suffer from trash that accumulates within them.

   
Newswise: Advanced artificial photosynthesis catalyst uses CO2 more efficiently to create biodegradable plastics
Released: 16-Feb-2024 10:05 PM EST
Advanced artificial photosynthesis catalyst uses CO2 more efficiently to create biodegradable plastics
Osaka Metropolitan University

An innovative and more efficient way to produce fumaric acid that not only reduces carbon dioxide emissions, but also reuses waste resources to make biodegradable plastics.

Newswise: Plasma technology for more effective lithium extraction
Released: 16-Feb-2024 9:05 PM EST
Plasma technology for more effective lithium extraction
National Research Council of Science and Technology

Applying plasma technology increases efficiency by 3-fold. Confirmation of a novel approach for lithium extraction from brine.

Newswise: Chelsea Chen: Breaking barriers in energy storage
Released: 16-Feb-2024 4:45 PM EST
Chelsea Chen: Breaking barriers in energy storage
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Chelsea Chen, a polymer physicist at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is studying ion transport in solid electrolytes that could help electric vehicle battery charges last longer.

Newswise: Nanomedicine paves the way for new treatments for spinal cord injury
Released: 14-Feb-2024 10:05 PM EST
Nanomedicine paves the way for new treatments for spinal cord injury
Politecnico di Milano

A Study by Politecnico di Milano and Istituto Mario Negri has been published in Advanced Materials.

Released: 14-Feb-2024 1:05 PM EST
Key genes linked to DNA damage and human disease uncovered
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Scientists unveil 145 genes vital for genome health, and possible strategies to curb progression of human genomic disorders.

Newswise: Pesticides to help protect seeds can adversely affect earthworms’ health
9-Feb-2024 8:00 AM EST
Pesticides to help protect seeds can adversely affect earthworms’ health
American Chemical Society (ACS)

Research published in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology Letters reveals that worms are affected by small amounts of chemicals from pesticide-treated seeds.

Released: 13-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
NJIT Researchers Unveil Method to Detect 'Forever Chemicals' in Under 3 Minutes
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)

Researchers report one of the fastest and most sensitive approaches yet for detecting toxic per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) accumulating in the environment, which are linked to health risks ranging from cancers to birth defects.

Newswise: RUDN chemists create an emission molecular thermometer
Released: 12-Feb-2024 7:05 AM EST
RUDN chemists create an emission molecular thermometer
Scientific Project Lomonosov

RUDN University chemists have obtained a multifunctional complex - a quadruple framework compound of lanthanides.

Newswise: Conversion process turns greenhouse gas into ethylene
Released: 11-Feb-2024 8:05 PM EST
Conversion process turns greenhouse gas into ethylene
University of Cincinnati

Engineers at the University of Cincinnati created a more efficient way of converting carbon dioxide into valuable products while simultaneously addressing climate change.

Newswise: New process allows full recovery of starting materials from tough polymer composites
Released: 8-Feb-2024 2:20 PM EST
New process allows full recovery of starting materials from tough polymer composites
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

In a win for chemistry, inventors at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have designed a closed-loop path for synthesizing an exceptionally tough carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer and later recovering all of its starting materials.

Newswise: Versatile Light Control in WSe2 Achieved
Released: 8-Feb-2024 7:30 AM EST
Versatile Light Control in WSe2 Achieved
Chinese Academy of Sciences

In an intriguing study published in Light: Science & Application, researchers have unveiled the feasibility in the versatile manipulation of various exciton species within monolayer tungsten diselenide (WSe2), a transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs).

Newswise: Stable intense supercontinuum light generation from 1kHz femtosecond laser filamentation in air
Released: 8-Feb-2024 4:05 AM EST
Stable intense supercontinuum light generation from 1kHz femtosecond laser filamentation in air
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Supercontinuum (SC) white light generation in gases through ultrafast laser filamentation is in principle immune to damage. However, the bottleneck problem is that the strong jitters from filament induced self-heating at kHz repetition level.

Newswise: Revolutionizing Surface Science: A New Horizon in Superhydrophobic Materials
Released: 8-Feb-2024 3:05 AM EST
Revolutionizing Surface Science: A New Horizon in Superhydrophobic Materials
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Superhydrophobic surfaces, which repel water strongly, are useful for self-cleaning, anti-corrosion, and oil/water separation. Traditional methods to create these surfaces are complex and material-specific.

Newswise: Whole-infrared-band camouflage with dual-band radiative heat dissipation
Released: 7-Feb-2024 11:05 AM EST
Whole-infrared-band camouflage with dual-band radiative heat dissipation
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Advanced multispectral detection technologies have emerged as a significant threat to objects. To address the challenge, scientists in China proposed a whole-infrared-band camouflage device (covering the NIR, SWIR, MWIR, and LWIR bands), which exhibits remarkable camouflage performance against thermal emission and solar radiance.

Newswise: Inexpensive, carbon-neutral biofuels are finally possible
Released: 7-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
Inexpensive, carbon-neutral biofuels are finally possible
University of California, Riverside

When it comes to making fuel from plants, the first step has always been the hardest — breaking down the plant matter

Newswise: Enrichment of anchoring sites by introducing supramolecular halogen bonds for the efficient perovskite nanocrystal LEDs
Released: 7-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
Enrichment of anchoring sites by introducing supramolecular halogen bonds for the efficient perovskite nanocrystal LEDs
Chinese Academy of Sciences

The location and type of ligand anchoring on the perovskite nanocrystal surface are critical to the nanocrystal morphology, size, bonding patterns, adsorption-desorption processes, and overall stability, optoelectronic properties, etc.

Newswise: Deciphering dynamics of electric charge
Released: 6-Feb-2024 12:05 PM EST
Deciphering dynamics of electric charge
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Research led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Marti Checa and Liam Collins has pioneered a groundbreaking approach, described in the journal Nature Communications, toward understanding the behavior of an electric charge at the microscopic level.

Newswise: Pore power: high-speed droplet production in microfluidic devices
Released: 6-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
Pore power: high-speed droplet production in microfluidic devices
Chiba University

Over the past two decades, microfluidic devices, which use technology to produce micrometer-sized droplets, have become crucial to various applications.

Newswise: Large-scale Production Technology for Green Ammonia, Essential for Achieving Carbon Neutrality
Released: 6-Feb-2024 9:00 AM EST
Large-scale Production Technology for Green Ammonia, Essential for Achieving Carbon Neutrality
National Research Council of Science and Technology

Dr. Yoon Hyung Chul and his colleagues at the Clean Fuel Research Laboratory of the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) develop an advanced catalyst for ammonia synthesis.

Newswise: Zero-index metamaterials and the future
Released: 6-Feb-2024 7:05 AM EST
Zero-index metamaterials and the future
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Zero-index metamaterials (ZIMs) have the potential to revolutionize electromagnetic and microwave applications.

Newswise: Ammonia attracts the shipping industry, but researchers warn of its risks
Released: 5-Feb-2024 10:05 PM EST
Ammonia attracts the shipping industry, but researchers warn of its risks
Chalmers University of Technology

Switching to ammonia as a marine fuel, with the goal of decarbonisation, can instead create entirely new problems.

   
Newswise:Video Embedded new-ion-cooling-technique-could-simplify-quantum-computing-devices
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Released: 5-Feb-2024 8:05 PM EST
New Ion Cooling Technique Could Simplify Quantum Computing Devices
Georgia Institute of Technology

A new cooling technique that utilizes a single species of trapped ion for both computing and cooling could simplify the use of quantum charge-coupled devices (QCCDs), potentially moving quantum computing closer to practical applications.

Newswise: Watching the Enzymes that Convert Plant Fiber into Simple Sugars
Released: 5-Feb-2024 11:05 AM EST
Watching the Enzymes that Convert Plant Fiber into Simple Sugars
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Research from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and UC Davis sheds new light on how to access the sugars locked up in plants to produce petroleum-free fuels, chemicals, and medicines.

Newswise: Researchers from Pusan National University employ artificial intelligence to unlock the secrets of magnesium alloy anisotropy
Released: 1-Feb-2024 10:05 PM EST
Researchers from Pusan National University employ artificial intelligence to unlock the secrets of magnesium alloy anisotropy
Pusan National University

Magnesium (Mg) alloys have been popularly used for designing aerospace and automotive parts owing to their high strength-to-weight ratio.

Newswise: Engineers unmask nanoplastics in oceans for the first time, revealing their true shapes and chemistry
Released: 1-Feb-2024 10:45 AM EST
Engineers unmask nanoplastics in oceans for the first time, revealing their true shapes and chemistry
University of Notre Dame

In a new study, engineers at the University of Notre Dame have presented clear images of nanoplastics in ocean water off the coasts of China, South Korea and the United States, and in the Gulf of Mexico.

Newswise: Researchers uncover potential non-opioid treatment for chronic pain
Released: 31-Jan-2024 5:05 PM EST
Researchers uncover potential non-opioid treatment for chronic pain
University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)

Among the most difficult types of pain to alleviate is neuropathic pain, pain that is usually caused by damage to nerves in various body tissues, including skin, muscle and joints.

Newswise: The use of biofuels may reduce black smoke emissions of cars by 90%
Released: 31-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
The use of biofuels may reduce black smoke emissions of cars by 90%
University of Malaga

The UMA participates in an international study with the Future Power Systems Group of the University of Birmingham (UK) that investigates how to reduce pollutant emissions from vehicles without affecting engine performance.

Newswise: New study reports that Greenland is a methane sink rather than a source
Released: 31-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
New study reports that Greenland is a methane sink rather than a source
University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Science

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have concluded that the methane uptake in dry landscapes exceeds methane emissions from wet areas across the ice-free part of Greenland.

Released: 30-Jan-2024 9:30 AM EST
Tomato juice’s antimicrobial properties can kill salmonella
American Society for Microbiology (ASM)

Tomato juice can kill Salmonella Typhi and other bacteria that can harm people's digestive and urinary tract health, according to research published this week in Microbiology Spectrum, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology.

   
Released: 29-Jan-2024 4:05 PM EST
How to shift gears in a molecular motor
Linkoping University

Scientists have long strived to develop artificial molecular motors that can convert energy into directed motion.

Released: 29-Jan-2024 4:05 PM EST
Spatial model predicts bumblebee exposure to pesticide use
Emory University

It has long been known that agricultural pesticides are one of the greatest threats to bees and other essential pollinators.



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