deepAI Stockholm, Sweden — Industrial insect farming, once hailed as a climate-friendly protein source, is coming under scrutiny as new research questions whether it delivers the environmental benefits often claimed. A report by the Stockholm…
UW’s Holloway to lead NASA Health and Air…
[caption id="attachment_9573" align="alignright" width="448"] Nitrogen dioxide pollution, as detected by NASA’s Aura satellite, has decreased across the United States. Blue and green denote lower concentrations and orange and red areas denote higher concentrations. IMAGE:…
Putting the pressure on platinum
Hokkaido University researchers have synthesised a uniquely structured platinum-based superconducting material. [caption id="attachment_9569" align="alignright" width="300"] Electron microscopic image(left) and schematic image(right) of LaPt5As crystal[/caption] Superconductors are materials that, when cooled below a certain temperature, conduct…
Mitochondrial maps reveal new connections to poorly understood…
[caption id="attachment_9561" align="alignnone" width="775"] UW-Madison chemistry graduate student Emily Wilkerson prepares a mass spectrometer to analyze a mitochondrial protein sample. PHOTO: JOSH COON/MORGRIDGE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH[/caption] Mitochondria are the engines that drive cellular life, but…
New analytical tool for fluorescence detection of double-stranded…
A pharmaceutical company has rushed a special drug that once saved the life of a girl who contracted a usually deadly brain-eating amoeba to a South Carolina hospital with its own patient fighting the disease.…