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Shipboard system that uses limestone and seawater could cut CO₂ emissions by half
Reactor design and evolution of seawater chemistry during an experiment. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adr7250 From lab to sea Maritime shipping accounts for nearly 3% of global greenhouse gas…
Waiting for a plan to rescue COP28 breakthrough
Dubai pledges “at risk” Although it now feels like a different lifetime, it was only 18 months ago that UN climate boss Simon Stiell hailed “the beginning of the end”…
Gene therapy may slow loss of motor function in ALS
Capsid selection and AAV-miAtxn2-mediated reduction of ataxin-2 in target cells. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-60497-8 Researchers have developed a gene therapy that significantly slowed motor function loss in preclinical…
Dwarf galaxy glows red in the Hunting Dogs constellation photo of the day for June 25, 2025
Deep in the constellation Canes Venatici, also called the Hunting Dogs, lies the dwarf galaxy NGC 4449. It’s part of the M94 galaxy group, near a group of galaxies to…
Philly psychology students map out local landmarks and hidden destinations where they feel happiest
What makes you happy? Perhaps a good night’s sleep, or a wonderful meal with friends? I am the director of the Happiness Lab at Drexel University, where I also teach…
More than half of US teens have had at least one cavity, but fluoride programs in schools help prevent them – new research
Programs delivering fluoride varnish in schools significantly reduce cavities in children. That is a key finding of our recently published study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Fluoride varnish…
Young Mozambican inventor bringing the blind smart ‘vision’
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain When Armando Ernesto Chau straps on the futuristic smart glasses that a young Mozambican robotics student is developing in the family dining room, he has a…
