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Cause of mass death of bald eagles discovered

March 27, 2021 • 12:00 AM

With criminalistic flair, researchers have solved the mystery surrounding the mysterious mass death of bald eagles in the southeastern United States. The cause is a toxin formed by blue-green algae, as a team led by Timo Niedermeyer of the University of Halle-Wittenberg and Susan Wilde of the University of Georgia writes in the journal Science. Bald eagles, as well as other birds in the region, have been suffering from a disease of the nerves since the 1990s. The animals lose control of their...

Mathematical modelling could reduce infection rates

March 5, 2021 • 12:00 AM

A quick scan of the cell phone display and the long-awaited entrance to a movie theater, a concert, a handball hall, or even a store that offers something other than groceries, medications, and other everyday necessities opens up. Is this what an important step on the long road out of the Covid 19 lockdown looks like? Virologist Bernhard Fleckenstein of the University of Erlangen can very well imagine it: "An app on a cell phone shows the negative result of a Covid 19 antigen test from the same...

Artificial snow to preserve glaciers

February 15, 2021 • 12:00 AM

Felix Keller is visibly excited. He doesn't seem to mind the double-digit temperatures at 2100 meters above sea level at the Diavolezza valley station in the Upper Engadine. Anything else would be strange, of course. After all, ice is Keller's element: he is a glaciologist. And the 58-year-old Swiss has been working towards this moment for a long time - the opening of a test facility for snow-making on glaciers. In the livestream documenting the event, the sound drops out every now and then...

Climate fight looks to CO2 storage

February 10, 2021 • 12:00 AM

On the roof of the waste incineration plant in Hinwil near Zurich, the air is as low in carbon dioxide as it was before industrialization began. That's because there's a giant filter there: fans guide air currents through a material that uses a chemical reaction to dissolve out around half of the greenhouse gas it contains. The technology developed by the Swiss company Climeworks could become a key instrument for global climate protection. When carbon dioxide is pressed into porous rock layers,...

Mystery solved: The origins of flying dinosaurs

January 14, 2021 • 12:00 AM

Fossils of pterosaurs, the earliest reptiles to evolve powered flight, were unearthed in the 19th Century but their evolution has remained a mystery. They were around for more than 150 million years until the end of the Mesozoic Era, about 66 million years ago. Recently, scientists using new fossils and an imaging tool called x-ray microcomputed tomography (micro-CT) have unraveled their development. The solution of the mystery not only revealed a sister species of pterosaurs which share a...

Two billion euro program for innovation in Bavaria

October 10, 2019 • 12:00 AM

Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) has presented a two-billion-euro program to expand research and innovation in Bavaria in his government statement. A network on artificial intelligence, the refurbishment of several universities, more quantum technology, the recruitment of top international scientists, more research on alternative drives and more universities of excellence - all these are goals Söder mentioned in his government statement today, October 10th 2019. Söder explained...

Radiation fraud must be exposed

June 27, 2019 • 12:00 AM

Many people think that science is somehow immune to frauds and misrepresentations. Application of the "scientific method" supposedly weeds out the bad apples. Yet, just as in every other human endeavor, there are always scientists who will lie, cheat, and steal to get ahead. A few even received Nobel Prizes before they were found out. One of these deceptions has yet to be effectively unveiled. The cost to medicine, human health, and energy is huge. That is the unsupportable concept that even...

Climate Change and Mathematical Modelling Illusions

April 27, 2019 • 12:00 AM

For the past three decades, human-caused global warming alarmists have tried to frighten the public with stories of doom and gloom. They tell us that the end of the world as we know it is nigh as a result of carbon dioxide emitted into the air by the burning of fossil fuels. They are exercising precisely what journalist H. L. Mencken, the sage of Baltimore, described early in the past century: "the whole point of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be lead...

Antibiotic shows antiviral potential

June 20, 2018 • 12:00 AM

Researchers at Yale have discovered that a type of antibiotic surprisingly displays antiviral properties in mice.

Antibiotics are known to attack and kill bacteria. However, scientists were recently intrigued to observe that a class of antibiotics showed protection for viruses in a study carried out on mice. 

The researchers focussed on one antibiotic called neomycin, which is used to treat bacterial infections. The study showed that neomycin had antiviral properties, which protected the mice...

Do Animals Have Supernatural powers?

March 14, 2018 • 12:00 AM

Credit: Wikipedia, Kallerna, Creative Commons In my book titled : "Exact Lies of Social Engineering - The Silent Noises of the Poor", I analyse the mathematical aspects of balancing imagination and logic in the digestive system of the real world, as a way of looking at the ideas of tomorrow! But in the earliest time when both people and animals lived on the earth, a person could appear to become animal if he wanted to and an animal could become a human being. Nature was natural and was...

A green way of coloring denims blue

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

A new research study led by the University of California, Berkeley engineering Professor John Dueber has shown that indigo dye, widely used in denim to give its trademark color can be produced using "green" technology.

The current chemical process for dyeing jeans is "environmentally hazardous, not only from the chemicals required for indigo synthesis but also in the excess of a chemical to dissolve indigo to enable dyeing," says Dueber.

Indigo dyeing is an ancient technique widely used nowadays...

Future smart devices might provide you with a feel for virtual textures and shapes

November 30, -0001 • 12:00 AM

Imagine you are browsing the just-released iPhone that you would like to purchase on your tablet. Normally, what would that entail? A trip to the nearest store. However, what if your tablet allows you to virtually feel the texture and shape of that coveted iPhone by sitting in the comforts of your home? Sounds enticing and beats a trip to the Apple store, isn't it?

This is the experience that a group of researchers at Northwestern University and France's Aix Marseille University would like you...

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