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Members of FIDES-II from 14 countries assembled in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on 15-19 April 2024 for meetings of its Technical Advisory Group and Governing Board. The meeting marked an important transition for the framework to the second triennial with the launch of four new Joint Experimental Programmes (JEEPs) The project also recently welcomed a consortium of new members from Korea and introduced discussion of a new cross-cutting activity on advanced instrumentation for irradiation experiments.
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1 year ago Read more at Nuclear Energy Agency

Ronit Freeman and colleagues describe steps they took to manipulate DNA and proteins to create cells that look and act like cells from the body. This accomplishment, a first in the field, has implications for efforts in regenerative medicine, drug delivery systems, and diagnostic tools. Subscribe for FREE Cells and tissues are made of proteins that come together to perform tasks and make structures. Without it, cells wouldn’t be able to function.
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1 year ago Read more at Technology Networks

Twenty Long Island students have qualified for the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair in Los Angeles next month. At least 25% in each category were selected for the second round of judging in March at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury. The winners will now go on to the international fair, to be held from May 11-17.
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1 year ago Read more at Newsday

There are two species of gorilla, eastern and western, both native to the forested regions of equatorial Africa. Weighing up to 190kg (420lbs), the world’s largest living primates mainly eat plants that are fibre-dense and comparatively nutrient-poor. In 2020, the BBC series Spy in the Wild revealed just how much these animals toot.
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1 year ago Read more at BBC Science Focus Magazine

Scientists report that deep-sea corals that lived 540 million years ago may have been the first animals to glow. Bioluminescence is the ability of living things to produce light via chemical reactions. The study pushes back the previous oldest dated example of the trait by nearly 300 million years.
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1 year ago Read more at The Independent

China became the nation with the most "top 100 science and technology clusters' for the first time last year, an official from the country's top intellectual property regulator said on Wednesday. China owned 24 of the top 100 Science and Technology clusters by the end of last year. In 2023, China overtakes the US with 21 clusters unchanged on the year, the index said.
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1 year ago Read more at ecns

Bonnie Baxter, microbiologist and director of Westminster University’s Great Salt Lake Institute, is studying the limits of life there as the lake level drops, the salinity spikes and species — from brine flies to birds — change their behavior or die off. As public awareness has grown, she has made herself a consistent resource for advocates and decision-makers. I’ve taken on the weightiness of that in this latter part of my career.
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1 year ago Read more at High Country News

Dr Staa Stankovi is an ovarian genomicist with a PhD in Reproductive Genomics from the University of Cambridge. She has been part of a team working to develop a method that could predict your natural fertility window – and therefore your menopausal age. The team’s focus is on a solution that comes after the test: a drug that could tackle infertility and, potentially, delay menopause.
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1 year ago Read more at BBC Science Focus Magazine

A marine bacterium was subsumed into its algal host organism, co-evolving with it for long enough that it can now be considered an organelle, part of the alga’s cellular machinery. The first time this happened – as far as we know – it gave rise to the very first complex life by giving us the chloroplast.
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1 year ago Read more at IFLScience

China has carried out more than 130 scientific research and application projects in its orbiting space station. More than 300 scientific experiment samples have been brought back from space by manned missions in five batches. These space experiments and scientific research carried out with the returned samples have continued to achieve new results.
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1 year ago Read more at Xinhua