Reverberations from Earthquakes Reveal New Details about Earth’s Inner Core
A new study published in Nature Communications has used the reverberations from earthquakes to reveal new details about the structure of the Earth’s inner core. For decades, there has been…
Treating Transthyretin Amyloidosis-Cardiomyopathy with CRISPR
CRISPR CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technique gained attention when two female scientists, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, were awarded the Nobel Prize in the year 2020 in Chemistry for their contribution…
Scientists Upcycle Plastic Waste into High-Value Carbon Nanotubes Using Flash Joule Heating
Plastic waste that is often difficult and costly to recycle may be upcycled into valuable carbon nanotubes and hybrid nanomaterials using a new flash Joule heating technique, according to…
UK government appoints first female chief scientific adviser
Prof Dame Angela McLean, an expert on the spread of infectious diseases, will replace Sir Patrick Vallance as the UK government’s chief scientific adviser, becoming the first woman to hold…
How to use a dash?
Introduction A dash is a small horizontal line in the center of a line of text. It is lengthier than a hyphen and divides word clusters rather than individual words…
Urgent Call for Vaccine Trials as Equatorial Guinea Battles Marburg Virus Outbreak
Equatorial Guinea has confirmed its first outbreak of Marburg virus, related to Ebola, with a fatality rate of up to 88%. Health officials worldwide are urgently testing whether experimental vaccines…
Scientists Discover New Type of Medium-density Amorphous Ice
Scientists at University College London have created a new type of ice, called medium-density amorphous ice that matches the density and structure of water. This new discovery may lead to…