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UNESCO calls for more active involvement in the development of groundwater

2022-04-08 10:44 Groundwater accounts for 99 percent of all fresh water on Earth. However, this huge natural resource is still poorly studied and used inefficiently. This is stated in the UNESCO report. A new UNESCO study on groundwater will be discussed at the 9th World Water Forum in Dakar, Senegal, which started today. The authors of the study call on States to commit themselves to develop an adequate and effective stra...

World Health Day: Take climate action, take care of each other

2022-04-08 10:36 An urgent call to protect health and mitigate the climate crisis was issued by the UN health agency on Wednesday, to mark World Health Day on Thursday. In its call-to-action, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a shocking report on Monday, noting that 99 per cent of people breathe unhealthy air – mainly resulting from the burning of fossil fuels. “The climate crisis is a health crisis: The same uns...

UN chief hails launch of new expert group to boost net-zero climate change fight

2022-04-01 20:05 UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday urged private investors businesses, cities, states and regions, to do more to cut harmful greenhouse gas emissions, launching a new group of experts to help with realizing a net-zero future. Mr. Guterres’s comments came as he unveiled his new initiative to develop stronger standards for “net-zero” pledges by partners below the national government level, in ...

Protein on carbon nanotube: molecular spotlight and memory cell rolled into one

2022-04-01 19:58 Russian researchers and their international collaborators have developed a full-function bioelectronic photocell using one molecule of a fluorescent protein attached to a carbon nanotube. When exposed to light, the system can change its electronic properties and operate either as a spotlight or memory cell depending on how the protein is attached to the tube. The team’s findings open the door to new environ...

Remains of the oldest Balkan Neanderthals discovered in Serbia

2022-03-25 16:31 Paleoanthropologists have studied fossils discovered during the excavations of the Velika Balanica cave in Southern Serbia, and found out that about 300 thousand years ago, early Neanderthals lived in this region. According to scientists, the teeth and a fragment of the upper jaw found belonged to at least two individuals and represent the oldest evidence of the presence of Neanderthals in the Balkans.The o...

Scientists have proposed a mathematical model of oculomotor response to human head movement

2022-03-18 18:37 Scientists of the Interfaculty Center for Virtual Reality of Moscow State University and the Center "Supersvuk" of Moscow State University are participants in the Scientific and Educational School "Mathematical Methods for the Analysis of Complex Systems" together with colleagues from the Institute of Control Problems named after V.A. Trapeznikov RAS and Mexico built a model of the oculomotor response to th...

Robot that seems to convey emotion while reading

2022-03-11 18:31 Scientists from the Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems at the University of Tsukuba devised a text message mediation robot that can help users control their anger when receiving upsetting news. This device may help improve social interactions as we move towards a world with increasingly digital communications. While a quick text message apology is a fast and easy way for friends to let us know...

Weird world of high-pressure chemistry made simple by new electronegativity scale

2022-03-04 10:20 A Skoltech professor and his Chinese colleagues have revised a key chemical concept, electronegativity, and determined this characteristic for all elements under varying pressures. The revamped notion of electronegativity provides a unified theoretical framework for understanding the numerous anomalies of high-pressure chemistry. The study came out in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Acad...

Physicists managed to measure the gravitational deformation of time on a scale of one millimeter

2022-02-25 18:02 The passage of time, unlike how most people imagine it, is far from a constant value — it is known that an increase in the forces of gravity slows down the passage of time. Because of this, the clocks on the Earth's surface will go a little slower than the same clocks placed in near-Earth orbit, and a person living in a penthouse will age a little faster than a person living on the first floor of the sa...

Protect linguistic diversity on International Mother Language Day

2022-02-25 16:11 The head of the UN’s educational and cultural agency, UNESCO, has called for defending linguistic and cultural diversity in her message to mark International Mother Language Day on Monday. Audrey Azoulay, the UNESCO Director-General, highlighted how four out of 10 children worldwide do not have access to education in the language they speak or understand best, meaning the foundation for their learning is ...

Study probes how DNA folding might affect gene activity

2022-02-25 13:12 Russian researchers from Skoltech, the Institute of Molecular Genetics of NRC Kurchatov Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University, and elsewhere have clarified the mechanism behind the activation of genes in drosophila fly sex cells transitioning between two early stages in spermatozoid development. A similar mechanism makes the cells in our body — in the muscles, nerves, liver, etc. — different from eac...

Всероссийский конкурс научно-исследовательских работ «На пути новых открытий»

2022-02-25 11:20 Уважаемые коллеги! Приглашаем принять участие во Всероссийском конкурсе научно-исследовательских работ «На пути новых открытий» (далее – Конкурс). Организацию и проведение Конкурса осуществляет научно-образовательный центр «Science Idea» (далее – научно-образовательный центр). Конкурс проводится в заочной форме. В Конкурсе могут принять участие учащиеся школ и организаций дополнительного образования,...

Jurassic Long-Necked Dinosaur Suffered from Aspergillosis-Like Respiratory Infection

2022-02-18 17:22 The pulmonary disease infecting this diplodocine dinosaur, nicknamed ‘Dolly,’ would not been externally evident, but the probable pneumonia-like outward symptoms would have included coughing, labored breathing, nasal discharge, fever, and weight loss among others. It is the first known case of an avian-style pulmonary infectious disease in a non-avian dinosaur. Dolly is an immature dinosaur that lived appr...

Future drugs will disable the "protein pumps" of the causative agent of tuberculosis

2022-02-18 11:12 Scientists from the N. I. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia and South Ural State University, together with colleagues from the University of the Western Cape Province (South Africa), have proposed drugs that block bacterial pump proteins that can literally throw medicine out of the cell. Although these substances themselves are...

New environmental report offers solutions for ‘triple planetary crisis’

2022-02-18 10:42 Deadly wildfires, noise pollution and other looming environmental threats could cause widespread ecological damage, and need to be urgently addressed, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a new report published on Thursday. “The Frontiers Report identifies and offers solutions to three environmental issues that merit attention and action from governments and the public at large,” said UNEP Executive...

Examining why locusts form destructive swarms

2022-02-11 14:54 Researchers at Tel Aviv University found that the microbiome of a solitary locust undergoes a profound change when the host joins a group: bacteria called Weissella, almost completely absent from the microbiome of solitary locusts, become dominant in the gregarious phase. Moreover, a specially developed mathematical model indicates that swarming provides these bacteria with potential evolutionary advantages...

Scientists have managed to create a particle-antiparticle pair from a vacuum

2022-02-11 11:25 For the first time in history, scientists from the University of Manchester conducted direct experimental observations of the so-called Schwinger effect, an elusive effect that can occur only in the field of high-energy cosmic events, such as supernova explosions, collisions of neutron stars and black holes. By applying electric currents with a very high potential to specially designed graphene devices, sci...

MSU chemists have increased the efficiency of hydrogen generators almost to the maximum

2022-02-11 11:15 Employees of the Faculty of Chemistry of Moscow State University have improved the reaction of interaction of magnesium hydride with water, promising for the generation of hydrogen, which is used in fuel cells. The authors found that the addition of alkali metal salts, ammonium and /or magnesium increases the yield of hydrogen from 22% to almost 100%, while the rate of hydrogen flow increases eight times. ...

A new tool will help to create cellular maps of the human body

2022-02-04 20:36 An international group of scientists, which included a Moscow State University student, proposed a new tool for mapping cell types in body tissues based on cellular and spatial transcriptomics data. The use of information about the amount of RNA synthesized by each cell type, combined with modern computational methods, allows us to study the fine structure of tissues with a sensitivity that was not previous...

The most "sticky" adhesive material has been created, which is the most durable adhesive to date

2022-02-04 19:26 Scientists from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a new material that has the strongest adhesive properties to date, i.e. ability to adhere to the surface of other materials. And the adhesive composition created on the basis of this material is the most durable adhesive to date, the gluing place, with an area of \u200b\u200bonly one square centimeter, withstands a rupture force of 13...

The first chip for molecular electronics has been developed

2022-02-04 18:38 The first molecular electronics chip has been developed for the first time, realizing the 50-year-old goal of integrating single molecules into circuits to reach the limits of Moore's Law scaling.Developed by Roswell Biotechnologies and an interdisciplinary team of leading academic scientists, the chip uses individual molecules as versatile sensor elements in circuitry to create a programmable biosensor wit...

Interview: As millions fall behind, how can we bridge the growing education gap?

2022-01-28 17:05 The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating effect on education, laying bare a crisis that was already causing widespread concern well before the spread of the virus. Robert Jenkins, the Director of Education at the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, is calling for a transformation in learning, amid warnings that the current system is failing millions of people.Mr. Jenkins spoke to Conor Lennon from UN News ahead ...

Chemists of Moscow State University have found out the mechanism of phototransfer of an electron of a fluorescent protein

2022-01-28 11:16 The staff of the Department of Physical Chemistry of the Faculty of Chemistry of Moscow State University together with scientists from University College London investigated the processes of oxidation of the chromophore of a green fluorescent protein in an aqueous solution. The results will significantly expand the scope of application of one of the most relevant methods for tracking the activity of protein...

Exotic X-particles have been discovered for the first time at the Large Hadron Collider

2022-01-21 15:00 During the first few millionths of a second after the moment of the Big Bang, the newly formed Universe was filled with high-temperature, trillions of degrees, boiling quark-gluon plasma. In the chaos of this plasma, quarks and gluons, colliding randomly, formed extremely short-lived X-particles, which quickly decayed back into their constituent parts. The explosive expansion of the Universe led to the subs...

Antimicrobial resistance now a leading cause of death worldwide, study finds

2022-01-21 12:39 Antimicrobial resistance poses a significant threat to humanity, health leaders have warned, as a study reveals it has become a leading cause of death worldwide and is killing about 3,500 people every day. More than 1.2 million – and potentially millions more – died in 2019 as a direct result of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections, according to the most comprehensive estimate to date of the global im...

Результаты Всероссийского конкурса научно-исследовательских работ «Наука – для человека. Наука – для общества».

2022-01-21 08:29 Уважаемые участники конкурса, руководители! Благодарим за интерес, проявленный к нашему конкурсу. Поздравляем победителей и призеров конкурса. Желаем Вам новых интересных идей и дальнейших успехов! Просим обратить внимание, что в соответствии с тематикой поступивших на конкурс работ были образованы дополнительные направления. Результаты конкурса можно скачать по следующим ссылкам: Школьники Сту...

Artificial intelligence predicted where new drugs will be able to get close to RNA and DNA

2022-01-14 18:18 The iMolecule scientific group from Skoltech has developed a solution that, based on data on the structure of RNA and DNA, predicts the sites of these molecules suitable for interaction with the intended medicinal substances. Knowing these so-called binding sites, it is possible to more effectively and purposefully find formulas for new drugs, including antiviral ones. The solution uses artificial intellige...

Sloan Kettering Institute Scientists retool CAR T cells to serve as ‘micropharmacies’ for cancer drugs

2022-01-07 18:19 Immunotherapies called chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells use genetically engineered versions of a patient’s own immune cells to fight cancer. These treatments have energized cancer care, especially for people with certain types of blood cancers. Now, scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Sloan Kettering Institute (SKI) have developed new CAR T cells that can do something their predece...

Anthropologists have revealed the secret of energy efficiency of ancient people

2022-01-07 10:52 The researchers analyzed the balance of energy expenditure and consumption in primates and modern hunter-gatherers. It turned out that despite the use of sophisticated technologies and more economical means of transportation, people spend almost as much energy on finding or producing food as they receive - like our closest relatives, but they can cope with it in less time. Such a strategy could indirectly c...

IOM helps Afghan students in Kazakhstan

2021-12-31 16:28 The International Organization for Migration, with financial support from Germany, provided humanitarian assistance to more than 200 Afghan students studying in Kazakhstan. Muhammad Kabin Yeskhan is one of the young residents of Afghanistan who came to Kazakhstan for education within the framework of a special program. Today Muhammad, like many of his compatriots, found himself in a difficult situation: he...

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