Monthly Archives: February 2019

MANY wearable biosensors, data transmitters and similar tech advances for personalised health monitoring have now been “creatively miniaturised,” says materials chemist Trisha Andrew at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, but they require a...

ANTARCTICA experienced a sixfold increase in yearly ice mass loss between 1979 and 2017, according to a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Glaciologists from the...

SEISMOLOGISTS use waves generated by earthquakes to scan the interior of our planet, much like doctors image their patients using medical tomography. Earth imaging has helped us track down...

RISING temperatures could make some species sterile and see them succumb to the effects of climate change earlier than currently thought, scientists at the University of Liverpool warn. “There is...

THE United Nations estimates that more than 8 million tons of plastics flow into the oceans each year. A new chemical conversion process could transform the world’s polyolefin waste, a...

RED blood cells are scientifically known as erythrocytes. They are generally rich in haemoglobin. The life span of red blood cells is  usually within the range of...

A MEDIA workshop on Food Safety: Importance of Science Communication took place in Hanoi in November 2018 to foster an open discussion between media reporters and scientists, through the...

RESEARCHERS at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the University of Münster (WWU) have discovered a new switch that plants use to control their responses to iron deficiency. The findings...

A NOVEL synthetic DNA vaccine developed at The Wistar Institute induces protective immunity against Mayaro virus (MAYV), a mosquito-borne infection endemic to South America, that has the potential to become...

THE first in a series of policy briefs released by the SEARCA Biotechnology Information Center (SEARCA BIC) is based on a study  co-authored by Dr. Jose Benjamin Falck Zepeda,...