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Startups, awards and new research: youth-led World Food Forum kicks off
2021-10-02 11:57
The first World Food Forum, a youth-led event aimed at harnessing the energy and creativity of young people, and featuring speeches from Heads of State and senior UN officials, opened on Friday.
Streaming virtually, from Rome, the goal of the five-day event is to transform food and agriculture and help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular SDG 2 "No hunger".
Pope Francis joined ...
Two new species of large predatory dinosaur discovered on Isle of Wight
2021-10-01 18:03
A new study led by palaeontologists at the University of Southampton suggests that bones found on the Isle of Wight belong to two new species of spinosaurid, a group of predatory theropod dinosaurs closely related to the giant Spinosaurus. Their unusual, crocodile-like skulls helped the group expand their diets, allowing them hunt prey on both land and in the water.
The haul of bones was discovered on the ...
Food waste: a global problem that undermines healthy diets
2021-09-30 09:17
A lack of food, hunger and malnutrition affect every country in the world, the UN said on Tuesday, in an urgent appeal for action to reduce the amount of food that’s wasted.
The call comes as the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said that 17 per cent of all food available to consumers in 2019, ended up being thrown away.
An additional 132 million people face food and nutrition insecurity today bec...
Physicists for the first time managed to create a vortex atomic beam - a swirling "tornado" of helium atoms
2021-09-29 16:58
For the first time in the history of science, physicists have managed to create a vortex atomic beam, a kind of swirling "tornado" of atoms and molecules, with some amazing quantum properties that have yet to be studied in the near future. In the experiment, a direct beam of helium atoms directed into space through a tiny hole of a certain shape, due to the influence of strange laws of quantum mechanics, wa...
Paleontologists have identified well-preserved dinosaur cells
2021-09-28 19:02
Chinese scientists have isolated perfectly preserved cartilage cells from a 125 million-year-old dinosaur. They contain nuclei with remnants of organic molecules and chromatin. Such studies, according to scientists, bring science closer to sequencing the DNA of ancient "lizards".
The preservation of cell nuclei in long-extinct organisms is considered a rare and exceptional phenomenon. Due to the fragility ...
Vanadium for metallurgy can become more accessible and cheaper
2021-09-27 10:37
Russian and Belarusian scientists have developed a waste-free method for extracting vanadium, a metal widely used in metallurgy to increase the strength of alloys, from sulfuric acid production waste. The new technology will allow to extract up to 98% of the vanadium contained in such waste. Its implementation at enterprises, according to developers, will cost 120-125 thousand US dollars, and will pay off i...
Immune cells in the brain share the work
2021-09-26 10:44
To break down toxic proteins more quickly, immune cells in the brain can join together to form networks when needed. This is shown by a joint study of the University of Bonn, the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) and the Institut François Jacob in France. However, in certain mutations that can cause Parkinson's disease, this cooperation is impaired. The findings are published in the re...
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