Mindfully Curated
Researchers have now reconstructed the extent of Switzerland’s glacier ice loss in the 20th century. The researchers used historical imagery and conclude that the country’s glaciers lost half their volume between 1931 and 2016.
The missing step in the formation of a lipid molecule that allows certain single-celled organisms to survive the most extreme environments on Earth has now been deciphered.
The introduction of Texas pumas to Florida in the 1990s as part of a genetic rescue may have helped save Florida panthers from extinction, but it also brought some harmful mutations with it along the way. Researchers show that nearly half of the harmfu…
Plastic upcycling efficiently converts plastics to valuable commodity chemicals while using less of the precious metal ruthenium. The method could recycle waste plastic pollution into useful products, helping keep it out of landfills.
In planetary disks, carbon monoxide is lurking in large chunks of ice, solving the decade-old question, ‘Where is the CO?’
It’s no secret that the internet and social media fuel rampant spread of (mis)information in many areas of life. Now, researchers have explored this phenomenon as it applies to news about spiders. The verdict? Don’t blindly trust anything you read onli…
Dogs and humans clearly have a special bond. But do dogs, like humans, produce more tears at times when they are flooded with emotion? A new study says that, indeed, the eyes of our canine companions do well up with tears. In fact, it happens regularly…
Researchers have discovered that vanadium dioxide, a compound used in electronics, is capable of ‘remembering’ the entire history of previous external stimuli. This is the first material to be identified as possessing this property, although there coul…
Scientists show that there is a close association between clinical cases of COVID-19 and viral loads in wastewater, with the viral loads picking up to two days before the cases were detected.
In the vast majority of diseases caused by mutations in a single DNA sequence, the disruption of a gene is to blame. However, many non-coding elements in the genome, which inhabit what is sometimes known as the ‘dark genome’ are also thought to play a …
A detailed analysis of pancreatic cancer by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has revealed details of two key transition points in the development of these tumors — the shift from normal cells to precancerous cells, …
Researchers have used an atomically thin material to build a device that can change the color of laser beams. Their microscopic device — a fraction of the size of conventional color converters — may yield new kinds of ultra-small optical circuit chip…
Scientists have identified a group of latent stem cells that respond to injury in the central nervous system of mice. If a similar type of cell exists in humans, they could offer a new therapeutic approach to treat brain and spinal cord injuries.
With super-resolution imaging, researchers discovered that cells change the physical structure of their genome when they’re affected by disease.
Brain cells with the same ‘birthdate’ are more likely to wire together into cooperative signaling circuits that carry out many functions, including the storage of memories, a new study finds.
Humans aren’t the only ones suffering through unprecedented heatwaves in a warming climate. Consider the humble minnow. These tiny fish represent the all-important base of the food chain in many freshwater ecosystems. And like all fish, minnows adjust …
A new study highlights that global demand for sulfuric acid is set to rise significantly from ‘246 to 400 million tons’ by 2040 — a result of more intensive agriculture and the world moving away from fossil fuels. A projected shortage of sulfuric acid…
Among almost 43 million people in England who received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose, the risk of myocarditis was substantially higher in the four weeks after COVID-19 infection than after a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to a new stu…
New findings reveal how recovery progresses following inflammation triggered by injury or illness.
New research has discovered evidence of a biorhythm in human primary teeth that is associated with weight gain during adolescence.