Naked Mole Rats: Scientists Successfully Transfer Longevity Gene

The engineered mice were better protected against both spontaneous tumors and chemically induced skin cancer. They also showed signs of improved...

New vaccine may provide protection against many respiratory infections and allergens

Stanford Medicine researchers and their colleagues invented a new vaccine that protects mice from respiratory viruses, bacteria and allergens — the...

Plastic made from protein biodegrades in months

Scientists racing to tackle plastic pollution have created a surprising new contender: a biodegradable packaging film made partly from milk protein....

Is geothermal energy on the cusp of a worldwide renaissance?

...a worldwide resurgence of interest in geothermal, thanks to improving well technologies and rising power demand from data centres....

Teen first in world to be cured of rare disease through gene editing treatment

Blood stem cells were enriched and treated with a gene editing product that targeted and corrected the mutation in the gene responsible for CGD. As a...

Older adults vaccinated against shingles seemed to have a lower risk of dementia

...older adults vaccinated against shingles seemed to have a lower risk of dementia. A study last month suggested the same vaccine appears to slow...

Crack-Resistant Concrete Using Sisal Fiber Reinforcement

Integrating nano-silica and sisal fiber into conventional concrete, the team achieved measurable gains in both mechanical strength and durability....

As a resident of pothole-ridden Winnipeg, I celebrate any concrete advances. - TGR Editor

High altitude air may fight diabetes by turning red blood cells into sugar sponges

Red blood cells can alter their metabolism when oxygen levels drop ...it lowers circulating blood sugar, offering a potential explanation for reduced...

Palladium filters could enable cheaper, more efficient hydrogen fuel

Engineers have developed a new palladium membrane that remains resilient at much higher temperatures. The thermally stable design opens opportunities...

Novel "CDT Nanoagent" kills cancer cells without harming healthy cells

...scientists present a novel CDT nanoagent, an iron-based metal-organic framework or MOF. The MOF showed potent toxicity in multiple cancer cell...

I've associated MOFs with Direct Air Carbon Capture - interesting to see them here too. - TGR Editor

Frog gut bacterium eliminates cancer tumors in mice

A bacterium from tree frogs' intestines has shown "remarkably potent" tumor-killing abilities when given intravenously, surpassing standard therapies...

Supramolecular nanoparticles reverse Alzheimers in mice

The team designed particles that imitate natural molecules used by the brain's cleanup system regulating what passes through the blood-brain barrier,...

One of the world’s oldest blood pressure drugs can also halt the growth of aggressive brain tumors

A common medication for preeclampsia, hydralazine, acts on an enzyme called 2-aminoethanethiol dioxygenase (ADO)—a molecular switch for oxygen that...

New ceramic material could unlock potential of solid-state batteries

"Zirconia really pulls double duty here," said Yixian Wang, "It helps densify the material [and] prevents dendrites from forming. It's a win–win for...

Nanoparticles restore brain function in Alzheimer’s mice

Scientists have developed nanoparticles that can reverse the cognitive symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease in mice. The treatment works by repairing the...

Geothermal Power Generation is Coming Fast

Mazama Energy said today that it had drilled a well in Oregon that reached 629˚ F (331˚ C). “This one site can produce 5 gigawatts of energy,”...

Destroying Cancer with Ultrasound

Decades later, Xu's serendipitous discovery, known as histotripsy, is one of several approaches using ultrasound that are ushering in a new era of...

New desalination technology could lower costs of tapping seawater

The CEO of the company that developed the technology calls it a moonshot to revolutionize how California — and the world — can transform seawater...

Boosting brain’s waste removal system improves memory in old mice

Researchers report they have found a way ... targeting the network of vessels that drain waste from the brain...

Scientists regrow frogs’ limbs in leap for regenerative medicine

The frog used does not have the ability to naturally regenerate a limb and was treated with a five-drug cocktail over 24 hours. That treatment set in...

PINK1 Protein Breakthrough in Parkinson’s Research

The study provides an essential framework to develop targeted therapies that could alter the progression of Parkinson’s disease....

COF-999 improves Direct Air Capture significantly

The new material improves absorption, tolerates cycling at scale over time, and lowers desorption temps....

Adding Clay Dust to Algae Blooms 2xs Carbon Sequestration

"The novelty of our method is using clay to make the biological pump more efficient—the zooplankton generate clay-laden poops that sink faster."...

Ocean seeding has always felt like the fasted path to CC at scale. - TGR Editor

India's 'blockbuster' drugs to take on deadly superbugs

A number of promising locally-developed new drugs show potential to combat antibiotic-resistant pathogens....

This scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab

Halassy self-administered a treatment called oncolytic virotherapy (OVT) to help treat her own stage 3 cancer. She has now been cancer-free for four...

Low dose lithium may stop Alzheimer’s disease in its tracks

Researchers at McGill have shown that low-dose lithium is capable of both halting Alzheimer’s and of recovering lost cognitive abilities. ...

Scientists inhibit tumour growth by starving cancer cells glucose & glutamine.

Researchers describe the discovery of a new, high-potency molecule that blocked several varieties of the glucose transport protein. ...

renewables to reach 35% of India’s power mix by 2030

ICRA said that India's share of renewables will rise to 35% of its generation mix by year 2029, up from 21% in 2024. ...

China's Carbon Emissions Likely Peaked in 2023

Climate specialists have been speculating that CO2 emissions from China may have peaked in 2023......

Common Sleeping Pill May Reduce Buildup of Alzheimer's Proteins

Sleeping pills ... could reduce the build-up of toxic clumps of proteins in fluid that washes the brain clean every night....

Honeybee venom 'kills some breast cancer cells'

Australian scientists say the venom from honeybees has been found to destroy aggressive breast cancer cells in a lab setting....

Laser-Fusion Startup Gets $100M to Build Reactor

...[will] boost the laser's energy to 10 MJ without breaking the bank, compared to the two MJ of laser power used at greater expense during the NIF...

Scientists tame chaotic protein fueling 75% of cancers

MYC is the protein responsible for making many cancer cases worse. Researchers have found a way to rein it in....

Stemcell Knee Injection Regenerates Cartilage, Reduces Osteoarthritis by 58%

An injection of off-the-shelf stem cell therapy for knee osteoarthritis improved pain and function in a clinical trial, & has the potential to halt...

Advance Act Passes into Law Boosting Nuclear, Fusion

The act smooths the licensing path for numerous next generation nuclear and fusion technologies, lowering regulatory risk for players in those spaces....

Desert Algae Cultivation Could Capture & Store Gigatonnes of CO2

...can permanently remove 30 times more CO2 than a typical forest....

New lung cancer drug (lorlatinib) shockingly effective

Doctors are hailing “off the chart” trial results that show a new drug stopped lung cancer advancing for longer than any other treatment in...

Helion expects commercial fusion in 2028 at 50MW plant

A startup backed by Sam Altman says it’s on track to flip on the world’s first fusion power plant in five years, dramatically shortening the...

Countries promise clean energy boost at COP28 to push out fossil fuels

118 governments pledged to triple the world's renewable energy capacity by 2030....

Its progress. I'm not sure how much progress it actually represents. - TGR Editor

Germany's balcony solar craze: is US next?

Germany is experiencing a boom in small balcony solar. They’re sold in supermarkets and online, require no permits, cost three digits, and owners...

Floating solar panels could completely power thousands of cities

Thousands of cities could power themselves with solar panels floating atop water reservoirs... It’s a relatively easy way to generate renewable...

Nissan CEO: Solid State Batteries Will Be a "Game Changer" for Next-Gen EVs

Nissan's series hybrid powertrain... will cost no more than a regular internal combustion engine and transmission by 2026...

Gut bacteria may hold the key to preventing Parkinson's disease

Now, Finnish scientists say they have found that certain strains of gut bacteria are also the probable cause of Parkinson's disease....

mRNA Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in Initial Trial

In a recent early-stage trial, half of pancreatic cancer patients who received a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine after surgery did not have a...

Clinical trial of mRNA universal influenza vaccine candidate begins

A clinical trial of an experimental universal influenza vaccine ... has begun enrolling volunteers at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. ...

Giant Study Pinpoints Specific Gut Bacteria Linked to Alzheimer's

Tensions between the brain, the gut, and the makeup of its microbial inhabitants appear to play a critical role in the development of...

New Battery Chemistries Market-bound: M3P in Tesla Semi?

Sodium ion battery, M3P battery, and lithium polymer battery tech reportedly slashing costs, boosting range, and using easier-to-get materials....

The Cellular Reset: Inside the Scientific Pursuit of a Universal Cure

...Later, Gill measured the age of the skin cells and found that, biologically, they were between 25 and 30 years younger than they had been at the...

One-hour operation could cure prostate cancer by destroying tumours with electric currents

Prostate cancer could be cured with a "game-changing" one-hour operation that uses electric currents to destroy the most difficult to reach tumours....

Scientists Have Figured Out How to Create Wormholes For Transportation Across Space

So far, the research team has demonstrated its workings in a lab, and a team of scientists in China has also sent a bitmap image from one location to...

The Quest for Injectable Brain Implants Has Begun

Rather than making an electrode outside of the brain and then trying to implant it, they have designed a gel that, when injected into bodily tissue,...

OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT has finally revealed GPT-4

The company claims the model is “more creative and collaborative than ever before” and “can solve difficult problems with greater accuracy.”...

Floating solar panels could completely power thousands of cities

Thousands of cities around the world could power themselves entirely with solar panels floating atop water reservoirs, according to new research....

... and save a lot of water from evaporation too. - TGR Editor

New CO2 Capture Material is 3x More Efficient

The authors say that this novel approach captures CO2 from the atmosphere up to three times more efficiently than current methods. The warming gas can...

‘Revolutionary’ blue crystal resurrects hope of room temperature superconductivity

Controversial group’s material could lead to hyperefficient electricity grids and computer chips....

Here's the paper in Nature. - TGR Editor

New Treatment Succeeds with All Types of Bone Cancer

A new drug could help increase survival rates of more people with bone cancer, particularly children, said scientists. Researchers at the University...

Microsoft unveils AI model that understands image content, solves visual puzzles

...a multimodal model that can reportedly analyze images for content, solve visual puzzles, perform visual text recognition, pass visual IQ tests, and...

Multimodal is the next gen. - TGR Editor

Could Alzheimer's Be Caused by Infection?

...the US National Institute on Aging [is running] a clinical trial investigating whether a herpes antiviral drug called valacyclovir could slow the...

Researchers Discover a More Flexible Approach to Machine Learning

“Liquid” neural nets, based on a worm’s nervous system, can transform their underlying algorithms on the fly, giving them unprecedented speed...

Rolls-Royce's new micro-reactor design could send humans to Mars

Rolls-Royce revealed a new image of a micro-reactor for space that it says is "designed to use an inherently safe and extremely robust fuel form."...

NASA + Boeing Truss Wing Passenger Jet: 30% efficiency gain

The new aircraft looks like a giant glider with long, skinny wings propped up by diagonal struts to reduce drag. It’s called the transonic...

Palm Oil is Not (That) Bad Anymore

“I don’t want to sit here and say that the palm oil industry has suddenly become shiny green and sustainable, but it’s mostly stopped...

Honda's plan for Hydrogen: BEVs with H2 REXs

...the most sensible possible option for a hydrogen-powered passenger vehicle since it means you can group hydrogen filling stations around highways...

Breast Cancer Vaccines are coming...

The search for a treatment may be coming to an end because researchers have made a promising breakthrough... It confirmed that the experimental jab...

This law school tested ChatGPT on exams — it was a C+ student

A group of University of Minnesota Law School instructors gave the AI bot ChatGPT four exams alongside real students and found the bot — considered...

Can 3D Printing Finally Make Solid-State EV Batteries Practical?

...discovered the holy grail that could at last make solid-state batteries a practical reality in everything from microelectronics to big electric...

Hubble telescope observes a hungry supermassive black hole devouring a star

...some stars suffer a more drastic fate as they are ripped apart and devoured by a hungry black hole. Such an event happens only a few times every...

JWST gets all the attention now, but Hubble's still at it! - TGR Editor

Don’t Ban ChatGPT in Schools. Teach With It.

OpenAI's new chatbot is raising fears of cheating on homework, but its potential as an educational tool outweighs its risks....

Another Earth-size exoplanet discovered in habitable zone of nearby star

The planet, named TOI 700 e, is one of four known planets orbiting a cool star approximately 100 light-years away. The planet was discovered by...

NASA’s JWST discovers its first Earth-sized exoplanet

LHS 475 b is a rocky exoplanet roughly the same size as Earth that orbits very close to a small, dim star. And for the first time, researchers are...

Inner Cosmos To Treat Depression With BCI Implant

The company created what it calls “a digital pill for the mind," similar to a cochlear implant. “We've built the cochlear implant for depression,...

Q&A with OpenAI CEO on AI's Next Decade

...DALL-E 2 was where it began [and] will leave a mark not only on AI but on mainstream society and culture for years to come. “I think there's an...

The University of Michigan’s Water Splitting Method Makes Hydrogen Like Plants Do

Hydrogen is currently produced in a few ways, like electrolysis or from natural gas— both have drawbacks. The new process is called artificial...

The ozone layer is on track to recover within decades as harmful chemicals are phased out

The use of CFCs has decreased 99% since 1989, according to the assessment by a panel of experts published on Monday. If global policies stay in place,...

Team has Used CRISPR to engineer custom bacteriophages that could treat drug-resistant infections

...a team has used a rare form of CRISPR to engineer custom bacteriophages, a development that could aid in the treatment of drug-resistant infections...

Bacteriophages are viruses that kill harmful bacteria. Read more here: UC San Diego - What is Phage Therapy? - TGR Editor

The moon beckons once again, and this time NASA wants to stay

The moon NASA is seeking to visit is not the same moon that Neil Armstrong and the rest of the Apollo astronauts left behind some 50 years ago. It is...

Are chemical rockets or solar sails better to return resources from asteroids?

One of the most important decisions to be made in the structure of any asteroid mining mission would be how to get the resources back to where all of...

Fetal stem cell treatment for multiple sclerosis shows promising signs

People with progressive multiple sclerosis had higher levels of protective molecules in their spinal fluid two years after being injected with stem...

Goodyear's New Tire Is Made From Soybean Oil, Rice Husks And Pine Resin

Goodyear's contribution looks like it might be promisingly close to reality. At CES 2023, the company revealed a tire in which 90 percent of its...

‘Holy grail’ wheat gene discovery could feed our overheated world

Wheat now provides 20% of the calories consumed by humans every day, but its production is under threat. Thanks to human-induced global heating, our...

This 'Space Bubble' shield could counter the effects of climate change by reflecting the sun's rays

MIT researchers are exploring the possibility of floating frozen bubbles made of a thin film above Earth to reflect the sun's rays, called 'Space...

BYD To Introduce Sodium Batteries In Small BEVs

Now it looks like BYD will introduce the first BEV to use a sodium ion battery.... they are safer because they are non-flammable and have less problem...

New salt-based battery could revolutionise electric cars

Researchers at the University of Nottingham, working in collaboration with six scientific research institutions across China, have designed a new type...

This is from February 2021 - almost two years ago as I add it to TGR. Feels like vapor... - TGR Editor

1st TRAPPIST-1 results from Webb Space Telescope

The fact is that TRAPPIST-1 is one of the most eagerly anticipated targets for Webb. The system contains no fewer than seven rocky planets, all...

No, the results aren't published yet. But - they will be, and JWST's exceptional imaging means more research to come. - TGR Editor

Porsche Filled a 911 With Gas Made from Water

Steiner, member of the executive board for development and research at Porsche, said: “The potential of eFuels is huge. There are currently more...

They're not wrong - replacement rate & EV sales mean that ICE engines will be dominant for decades. A carbon-neutral way of running them seems like a smart / necessary step. - TGR Editor

Researchers just figured out how to filter indestructible "forever chemical" pollutants

A new study in the scientific publication Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters reveals a possible way to break down PFAS in water by using hydrogen...

What naked mole-rats can teach us about treating cancer

Naked mole-rats seem to defy ageing and appear immune to cancer. Scientists are studying these strange creatures to understand how humans can live...

This jumped out at me because I just saw the excellent / gross Naked Mole Rat exhibit at the Living Desert Zoo in Palm Springs, CA. https://www.livingdesert.org/animals/naked-mole-rat/ - TGR Editor

Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer

A teenage girl's incurable cancer has been cleared from her body in the first use of a revolutionary new type of medicine. Base editing allows...

FYI: Base editing is applied CRISPR-Cas9. See https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03536-x for more. - TGR Editor

Baby's life 'probably saved' by umbilical stem cells

Professor Massimo Caputo from the Bristol Heart Institute used pioneering stem cell injections to correct baby Finley's heart defect. He hopes to...

Space-based solar power: How it works, and why it's being considered now

Space agencies are returning to the idea of constructing enormous orbital arrays of solar panels, then beaming the power to Earth via microwaves. With...

Race to Develop Carbon Removal Technology Begins with Record Funding

The Department of Energy fired the starting gun Tuesday with the release of guidelines the agency will follow when awarding $3.5 billion for four...

DAC ("direct air capture") used to be a curiosity - now its a critical feature of any model to keep the climate recognizable. - TGR Editor

NASA’s Orion Returns to Earth After Historic Moon Mission

Splashdown is the final milestone of the Artemis I mission that began with a successful liftoff of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket Nov. 16,...

Nations reach 'historic' deal to protect nature

Nations have agreed to protect a third of the planet for nature by 2030 in a landmark deal aimed at safeguarding biodiversity. There will also be...

Airbus reveals plans for hydrogen fuel cell aircraft

The French aviation giant revealed at Airbus Summit 2022 on November 30 that it will mount the engine between the wings and the tail of a modified...

World's 1st hydrogen-powered jet engine could mark turning point for aviation industry

Aerospace manufacturer Rolls-Royce said Monday it had successfully tested and run the world's first hydrogen-powered aircraft engine. ...