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(Reuters) — A team of Swedish researchers from the University of Agricultural Sciences and the Karolinska Institute has discovered a way to artificially create one of the strongest, most tensile natural substances known to man – spider silk. Stronger than steel, weight for weight, spider silk also possesses properties which make it ideal for a wide variety of medical uses, but previous attempts to use captive spiders or to make it artificially have not produced […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — A common gene variant has been discovered in about one-third of the population that may explain why some people’s brains age faster than others, United States researchers said Wednesday. The gene, known as TMEM106B, accelerates normal brain aging in older people by up to 12 years, said the report in the journal Cell Systems. The gene generally starts to affect people around 65, particularly in the frontal cortex, which is responsible for higher […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Almost six million Adelie penguins are living in East Antarctica, more than double the number previously thought, scientists said Wednesday in findings that have implications for conservation. Research by an Australian, French and Japanese team used aerial and ground surveys, tagging and resighting data and automated camera images over several breeding seasons, which allowed them to come up with the new figure. They focused on a 5,000 kilometre (3,100 mile) stretch of […]
Italian engineers have developed a robotic rehabilitation platform that can analyze a patient’s biometrics to predict their risk of injury, and then guide them through exercises designed to counter that risk. Designed at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), the device, called Hunova, has received CE certification for Europe and is seeking approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It was developed over five years and is now being marketed by spin-off […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) published its first ever list of antibiotic-resistant “priority pathogens” and called on governments to help increase the research and development (R&D) of new antibiotics to address the growing problem. The United National Health Agency said that many of these bacteria have already evolved into deadly superbugs that are resistant to many antibiotics. According to the health organization, the bugs “have built-in abilities to find new ways to resist treatment” and […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The Alpine skiing season may be much shorter by century’s end, and limited to a smaller area, said a climate study Thursday warning of snow cover loss as high as 70 percent. Most climate models predict increased winter precipitation due to global warming, scientists wrote in the European Geosciences Union (EGU) journal The Cryosphere. But with temperatures rising too, the is likely to be in the form of rain rather than […]
by Jean-Louis SANTINI Agence France-Presse BOSTON, United States (AFP) — Underwater meadows of seagrass offer important protection against pollution to both humans and coral reefs, but are in jeopardy worldwide due to climate change, sewage and agricultural runoff, researchers said Thursday. Places with healthy seagrass — where sponges, clams, small fish and other filter feeders thrive — can reduce bacteria that is harmful to both people and marine life by up to 50 percent, said […]
by Mariëtte Le Roux Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Banned chemicals are tainting tiny crustaceans that inhabit the deepest ocean, a study said Monday — the first evidence that humans are polluting even the farthest reaches of our planet. Even at depths of nearly 11 kilometres (seven miles) these scavengers could not escape “extraordinary” levels of contamination with chemicals used in coolants and insulating fluids, researchers said. The pollutants likely came from plastic waste […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — The price of big-sized shrimp can rise as a direct result of pollution from fertilizers that cause dead zones in coastal waters, US researchers said Monday. The study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is the first to show how a low-oxygen water problem called hypoxia is related to the climbing price of seafood. “Many studies have documented the ecological impacts of hypoxia, but establishing a clear causal link to […]
ANTARTICA, Britain (AFP) — More than 50 researchers from 30 countries are to carry out the first scientific circumnavigation of Antarctica in an attempt to measure pollution and climate change, with the official launch held on Monday. https://youtu.be/jO8sxqhFXt4
MANILA – In simple rites held in Quezon City in Metro Manila on July 30, 2015, Embassy of Japan’s First Secretary Kenji Terada, together with Department of Agriculture Assistant Secretary Paz J. Benavides Ⅱ and Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries Executive Director Ariel T. Cayanan led the launching ceremony for the “Upgrading of the Pesticide Residue Laboratories Project” under the Japan Food Security Project for Underprivileged Farmers, (formerly known as the KR2 Program). Under Japan’s […]
