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Cure for age-related blindness on horizon

Cure for age-related blindness on horizon

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

Life Biosciences, a biotechnology company developing innovative cellular rejuvenation techniques to reverse aging and injury-related diseases and ultimately restore health to patients, today announced preclinical data in non-human primates (NHP) for its new gene therapy candidate that uses partial epigenetic reprogramming to restore visual function. This approach has been shown to reverse aging in mice, improving vision and extending lifespan, but it was not known whether epigenetic...

Italy bans laboratory meat

Italy bans laboratory meat

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

Italians have an intimate relationship with their agriculture, which is known to produce many good foods. Farm animals are also part of this relationship, albeit a complex one. In the Alpine province of Belluno, for example, citizens can adopt a cow from a cooperative, from which they then receive cheese and butter. On the other hand, as elsewhere, people prefer not to know too much about the specific stages of the food chain, such as what happens in the slaughterhouse or when calves are...

CO2 now stored in the Danish North Sea

CO2 now stored in the Danish North Sea

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

Under the Danish seabed, CO2 from Belgium has been stored at a depth of 1800 meters for a few weeks. It works like this: In a chemical plant in Antwerp, the carbon dioxide produced during production is captured, liquefied, loaded onto a ship tanker and brought to Denmark. There it is pumped deep underground and injected into the sandstone layers of the depleted Nini oil field. This huge CO2 storage facility was built by a consortium led by the British chemical company Ineos and the BASF...

Google discovers security gaps in smartphones

Google discovers security gaps in smartphones

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

Small chips, big security holes: A security team from the Internet company Google has found serious vulnerabilities in various chips manufactured by Samsung. The so-called Exynos modem chips are responsible for establishing mobile data connections. They are not only installed in Samsung devices, but are also used by other manufacturers, for example in Google's Pixel smartphones or those of the smartphone manufacturer Vivo. Affected devices include the Samsung Galaxy S22 and the Galaxy A71....

2022 was one of the two warmest years on record

2022 was one of the two warmest years on record

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

According to the German Weather Service (DWD), Germany experienced an "exceptional weather year" in 2022. According to the preliminary annual balance, the 2018 temperature record of 10.5 degrees Celsius was at least set. Overall, DWD calculations showed an annual mean temperature of 10.5 degrees Celsius this year. 2022 would thus be 2.3 degrees above the value of the internationally valid reference period 1961 to 1990. Only the final evaluation of all station data in early January will show...

EU wants to tighten emissions trading

EU wants to tighten emissions trading

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

Consumers and companies in the EU will have to pay more frequently for carbon dioxide (CO?) emissions in the future. Negotiators from the EU Parliament and the states agreed on a reform of EU emissions trading early Sunday morning, according to the Czech Council presidency. This is intended to make the most important instrument of European climate protection policy much more powerful. In addition, a new climate social fund is to cushion the consequences of the energy transition for consumers....

Test flight for NASA

Test flight for NASA "Artemis" moon mission launched

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

After months of postponements, the crisis-ridden NASA lunar mission "Artemis 1" departed on Wednesday for a first test launch. The unmanned capsule "Orion" took off with the "Space Launch System" rocket from the Cape Canaveral spaceport in the U.S. state of Florida, as could be seen on live images from the U.S. space agency NASA. For about three weeks, "Orion" is to travel in an orbit around the moon before the capsule is expected back on Earth on December 11. So far, the mission has not been...

Europe's first ecosystem with its own rights

Europe's first ecosystem with its own rights

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

The largest saltwater lagoon in the western Mediterranean is threatened with ecological collapse. Intensive agriculture is poisoning the "Mar Menor" in the Spanish province of Murcia, and the "Lesser Sea" is about to suffocate: Only a narrow sandy strip of land separates the unique ecosystem the once very popular vacation area from the open sea, but for the past four years a foul-smelling "green soup" has been forming again and again, depriving the fish and other marine life of the last air they...

Global warming in Arctic much faster than previously assumed

Global warming in Arctic much faster than previously assumed

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

Global warming in the wake of the climate crisis has progressed much faster in the Arctic than previously assumed, according to Finnish researchers.According to a new study by scientists at the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Helsinki, the Arctic region has warmed almost four times as fast as the global average over the past 43 years. On a regional scale, some areas in the Arctic Ocean have even warmed up to seven times as fast as the planet as a whole, they write in the journal...

Google reduces the error rate of its quantum computer

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

Nobody's perfect - this is especially true for Google's quantum computer "Sycamore," which two years ago was able to solve a mathematical problem faster than a classical supercomputer. Despite its performance, which relies on 49 superconducting quantum resonators that play the role of quantum bits (qubits), the system is extremely prone to failure. Members of Google's quantum technology team have now developed a method to tackle this problem and published it in a technical paper in the...

Mathematical modelling could reduce infection rates

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

A quick scan of the cell phone display and the long-awaited entrance to a movie theater, a concert, a handball hall, or even a store that offers something other than groceries, medications, and other everyday necessities opens up. Is this what an important step on the long road out of the Covid 19 lockdown looks like? Virologist Bernhard Fleckenstein of the University of Erlangen can very well imagine it: "An app on a cell phone shows the negative result of a Covid 19 antigen test from the same...

Artificial snow to preserve glaciers

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

Felix Keller is visibly excited. He doesn't seem to mind the double-digit temperatures at 2100 meters above sea level at the Diavolezza valley station in the Upper Engadine. Anything else would be strange, of course. After all, ice is Keller's element: he is a glaciologist. And the 58-year-old Swiss has been working towards this moment for a long time - the opening of a test facility for snow-making on glaciers. In the livestream documenting the event, the sound drops out every now and then...

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