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According to new research led Swansea University, UK, nanoparticles derived from leaves of the tea plant (Camellia sinensis) inhibit the growth of lung cancer cells, destroying up to 80% of them. Shivaji et al demonstrated a green, biogenic synthesis route for making quantum dots with 2-5 nm particle size using …

Bradford K. Newman is the chair of Paul Hastings’ Employee Mobility and Trade Trick Practice and the author of Protecting Copyright In The Age Of Worker Movement: Kinds and Analysis. On December 31, 2015, I published my initial call to arms for society’s rational policy of expert system before it …

Wild Things The odd and wonderful in the natural world Sarah Zielinski How a deep-sea geology trip led researchers to a doomed octopus nursery Sixteen out of these 17 deep-sea octopuses are brooding young– but they’re all fated to pass away. A geology voyage to study fluid discharge from a …

With an experiment launching to the International Space Station Monday (May 21), scientists will be able to create a temperature level that’s 10 billion times cooler than the vacuum of space to focus in on atoms’ strange quantum habits. . < a href=" https://www.space.com/35962-coldest-spot-universe-international-space-station.html" > The Cold Atom Laboratory( CAL) …

The mysterious asteroid ‘Oumuamua made headlines last year as the first interstellar object ever detected passing through our little corner of the universe. However, it turns out ‘Oumuamua wasn’t the first interstellar visitor we spotted. It was just the first one we recognized as alien. An asteroid called 2015 BZ509 …

Humans are known to have one functioning and three non-functioning chitinase genes — those that make an enzyme that digests the insect exoskeletal chitin. According to a new analysis of mammalian genomes, nearly all placental mammals have one of five different chitinase genes, though not all are functioning and some …

The first whole-genome analysis of ancient human DNA from Southeast Asia, defined as the area east of India and south of China, identifies at least three major waves of human migration into the region over the last 50,000 years, each shaping the genetics of Southeast Asia ‘to a remarkable extent.’ …

You can finally put those Lego skills from your childhood to work designing medical tests, thanks to a new project from MIT’s Little Devices Lab. Researchers there have developed a set of modular blocks that you can assemble to run various assays with liquid samples. They can measure blood glucose …

Annual lead emissions in Europe closely varied with historical events, including imperial expansion, wars, and major plagues, according to new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A day in Ancient Rome, being a revision of Lohr’s ‘Aus dem alten Rom,’ with numerous illustrations, by Edgar …

The proton, one of the components of atomic nuclei, is composed of fundamental particles called quarks and gluons. A team of physicists at the Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has found an extremely high outward-directed pressure from the center of the proton, and a much lower inward-directed …