ESA's Planetary Defence team The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved the naming of ten asteroids – and one comet – after people and places linked to the European Space Agency’s (ESA) efforts to protect…
Preventing Too Much Immunity
[caption id="attachment_11142" align="alignnone" width="720"] This image shows the pancreas in healthy mice (upper) and pancreas in Satb1-deficient mice (below). Source: Osaka University[/caption] Scientists at the Immunology Frontier Research Center (IFReC), Osaka University, Japan, report a…
The New ‘100% Effective’ Ebola Vaccine Owes Debt…
Almost a year after the official end of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the final results from one of the only Ebola vaccine trials are now in – and they look very promising. This is the only data…
UK universities win £1.2m funding to tackle Delhi…
[caption id="attachment_11136" align="alignnone" width="860"] Credit: The Jeffrey Wolf Green School of Evolutionary Astrology[/caption] Academics at the University of Surrey and University of Birmingham have won funding of £1.2m from NERC (the Natural Environment Research Council)…
Artificial Leaf Goes More Efficient for Hydrogen Generation
A new study, affiliated with Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology has introduced a new artificial leaf that generates hydrogen, using the power of the sun to mimic underwater photosynthesis. [caption id="attachment_11131" align="alignnone" width="720"]…