The flawed carbon math that lets major polluters off the hook

Climate action is falling behind on the goals as stated in the Paris Agreement. To meet those goals, countries must act according to their ‘fair share’ targets. However, researchers from Utrecht University found a bias in how ambition and fairness assessments were calculated until now: “previous studies assessing countries climate…

Metformin’s mysterious metal effect could explain its big health benefits

The widely used diabetes drug metformin changes blood metal levels in humans. The Kobe University study is an important step in understanding the drug’s many actions and designing better ones in the future. Metformin is the most widely prescribed diabetes drug in the world. Apart from lowering blood sugar levels,…

Overworked neurons burn out and fuel Parkinson’s disease

Certain brain cells are responsible for coordinating smooth, controlled movements of the body. But when those cells are constantly overactivated for weeks on end, they degenerate and ultimately die. This new observation made by scientists at Gladstone Institutes may help explain what goes awry in the brains of people with…

Hidden viruses in our DNA could be medicine’s next big breakthrough

You are mostly but not entirely human. If we crunch the numbers, 8 percent of your genome actually comes from viruses that got stranded there. This viral detritus is a souvenir from our evolutionary past, a reminder that viruses have been with us from the very beginning. Usually, this 8…

Kiev: nella notte la Russia ha lanciato 526 droni – Notizie – Ansa.it

Kiev ha reso noto che la Russia ha lanciato 526 droni e missili sull’Ucraina durante la notte.    E’ in corso un “massiccio” attacco contro l’Ucraina con droni, sono state udite esplosioni anche a Kiev, dove un drone è precipitato nel quartiere Desnyanskyi della capitale. Lo afferma l’aeronautica militare delle…

A simple metal could solve the world’s plastic recycling problem

The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less complicated, frustrating and tedious. In a new study, Northwestern University chemists have introduced a new plastic upcycling process that can drastically reduce — or perhaps even fully bypass — the laborious chore of pre-sorting mixed plastic waste. The process harnesses…

Central Asia’s last stable glaciers just started to collapse

Too little snowfall is now also shaking the foundations of some of the world’s most resilient ‘water towers’, a new study led by the Pellicciotti group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) shows. After establishing a monitoring network on a new benchmark glacier in central Tajikistan, the…

Why Alzheimer’s attacks the brain’s memory hub first

One of the first parts of the brain affected by Alzheimer’s disease is the entorhinal cortex — a region that plays a big role in memory, spatial navigation, and the brain’s internal mapping system. With support from the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Alzheimer’s and Related Diseases Research Award Fund (ARDRAF), Fralin…

Warped planet nurseries rewrite the rules of how worlds are born

The textbook picture of how planets form – serene, flat discs of cosmic dust – has just received a significant cosmic twist. New research, published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, is set to reshape this long-held view. An international team of scientists, wielding the formidable power of the Atacama Large…

Europei “pronti” su Kiev, ma Merz attacca von der Leyen – Notizie – Ansa.it

 Gli europei sono “pronti” sulle garanzie di sicurezza all’Ucraina, e aspettano un “sostegno” americano, come afferma l’Eliseo che ospiterà un nuovo vertice giovedì mattina. Ma non sono esattamente allineati. A diverse cancellerie non ha fatto piacere l’esplicito riferimento di Ursula von der Leyen a una “roadmap” per il dispiegamento di…

Trump, se perdiamo ricorso sui dazi è disastro economico – Notizie – Ansa.it

Se l’amministrazione Trump perdesse il ricorso alla Corte Suprema sui dazi sarebbe un disastro economico. Lo ha detto il presidente allo show radio di Scott Jennings, sottolineando che gli Stati Uniti verrebbero maltrattati e “derisi dagli altri paesi” se non riuscissero a mantenere le tariffe.  Domani faremo appello alla corte…

A Venezia i maestri, nel segno della violenza – Notizie – Ansa.it

La violenza, raccontata dalle più diverse prospettive, epoche e latitudini ha segnato questa giornata alla Mostra del cinema di Venezia. Per approfondire Agenzia ANSA Venezia, Bigelow: ‘In A House of Dynamite racconto la morte atomica’ – Notizie – Ansa.it “Un sequel con Trump? Purtroppo non è questione di uomini” (ANSA)…