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Imagine a vaccine that doesn’t just fight one virus but an entire family of them. A vaccine designed not by trial and error in a lab, but by artificial intelligence crunching thousands of genetic sequences. That’s exactly what researchers at the University of Cambridge and their…
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Imagine a single vaccine that could protect you not just from COVID-19, but from a whole family of coronaviruses—including ones that haven’t even jumped to humans yet. That’s exactly what researchers at the University of Cambridge and their spinout company DIOSynVax have achieve…
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Imagine standing on a frozen plain so vast and silent that the ice above you is thicker than three Empire State Buildings stacked end to end. Now imagine that beneath your feet, hidden from every satellite and every human eye for millions of years, lies a geological structure th…
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Imagine stepping outside on a warm June evening, glancing up at the twilight sky, and watching one of the brightest planets simply vanish. That is exactly what will happen on June 17, 2026, when Venus slips behind the Moon in a rare lunar occultation. For observers across parts…
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Nishant Shrivastava: CAR T-cell therapy has been a game changer for blood cancers. Patients who had run out of options are now living years longer, sometimes even achieving complete remission. But if you ask oncologists what frustrates them most about this treatment, many will p…
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Every time you scrub a dish, your kitchen sponge is quietly shedding something you cannot see. A team of researchers at the University of Bonn has found that these everyday cleaning tools release microplastic particles with each use, turning a routine chore into a steady source…
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Every time you scrub a dish, your kitchen sponge is quietly losing tiny plastic particles. A team of researchers at the University of Bonn decided to find out exactly how much. Their study, published in *Environmental Advances*, tracked what happens when ordinary sponges meet ho…
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[Bonn, Germany] Nishant Shrivastava: You grab your sponge, squeeze it under the faucet, and start scrubbing a greasy pan. It feels like a harmless routine. But what if that same sponge is quietly releasing thousands of tiny plastic particles into your sink, your water, and event…
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You grab your sponge, squeeze some soap, and start scrubbing. It feels like a simple, harmless chore. But what if that same sponge is quietly releasing tiny plastic particles into your sink, your water, and eventually your body? A new study from the University of Bonn suggests e…
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[Lausanne, Switzerland], Nishant Shrivastava: Imagine trying to control a firefly in a hurricane. That is essentially what chemists have been attempting for decades when working with radical intermediates. These fleeting, highly reactive species are the ghosts of the molecular w…
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Imagine trying to control a particle that exists for only a few billionths of a second. That is the daily reality of working with radicals, those fleeting, highly reactive molecular fragments that drive many chemical reactions. For decades, chemists have struggled to impose one…
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Imagine trying to build a complex molecule where every atom has to be placed in a specific 3D arrangement, but the key intermediate lives for only a few nanoseconds. That has been the nightmare of synthetic chemists for decades. Now, a team at EPFL has found a way to tame these…
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