Exposure to wildfire smoke affects the body’s respiratory and cardiovascular systems almost immediately, according to new research from the University of British Columbia’s School of Population and Public Health.
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Jellyfish Contain No Calories, But They Still Attract Predators
They contain no carbohydrates.
Purifying Water With A Partly Coated Gold Nanoparticle
With a new nanoparticle that converts light to heat, a team of researchers has found a promising technology for clearing water of pollutants.
Mysterious Climate Change
New research findings underline the crucial role that sea ice throughout the Southern Ocean played for atmospheric CO2 in times of rapid climate change in the past.
Experimental Peptide Targets Covid-19
Using computational models of protein interactions, researchers at the MIT Media Lab and Center for Bits and Atoms have designed a peptide that can bind to coronavirus proteins and shuttle them into a cellular pathway that breaks them down.
Rice Lab Turns Fluorescent Tags Into Cancer Killers
A Rice University lab’s project to make better fluorescent tags has turned into a method to kill tumors.