Promoting legal innovation and developing new approaches to effectively combat climate change: This, in addition to teaching and research, is the goal of the new endowed professorship for climate law. The Bloom Foundation will support the establishment of this professorship for a period of ten years. Bern, June 11, 2025.-Continuar Leyendo
New York, June 10, 2025.- Every living creature on Earth needs to protect itself from things that would do it harm. Bacteria are no different. And despite their relative simplicity, they deploy remarkably savvy defensive strategies against viral invaders. The most well-known is CRISPR-Cas9, adapted for human use as theContinuar Leyendo
New York, June 10, 2025.- Using an algorithm they call the Krakencoder, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine are a step closer to unraveling how the brain’s wiring supports the way we think and act. The study, published June 5 in Nature Methods, used imaging data from the Human Connectome ProjectContinuar Leyendo
One of the current hot research topics is the combination of two of the most recent technological breakthroughs: machine learning and quantum computing. An experimental study shows that already small-scale quantum computers can boost the performance of machine learning algorithms. This was demonstrated on a photonic quantum processor by anContinuar Leyendo
First evidence of “living towers” in nature: Scientists observed this behavior in rotting apples and pears from local orchards in Konstanz, Germany Tower function confirmed: Towers can attach to passing insects and can bridge physical gaps to disperse. Hitchhiking on mass: Entire worm towers could respond to touch, detach fromContinuar Leyendo
Laura Goodman was close to finalizing a prototype of a new test that can detect any tick-borne disease. Unlike some current tests, it could provide results even before symptoms occur – and even for unknown diseases. New York, June 04, 2025.- That’s important, because ticks around the world can potentiallyContinuar Leyendo
For the design of future materials, it is important to understand how the individual atoms inside a material interact with each other quantum mechanically. Previously inexplicable vibrational states between carbon chains (carbyne) and nanotubes have puzzled materials scientists. Researchers from Austria, Italy, France, China and Japan lead by the UniversityContinuar Leyendo
Astronomers have witnessed for the first time a violent cosmic collision in which one galaxy pierces another with intense radiation. Their results, published today in Nature, show that this radiation dampens the wounded galaxy’s ability to form new stars. This new study combined observations from both the European Southern Observatory’sContinuar Leyendo
Females team up to maintain power in their societies. Munich, May 22, 2025.- iologically speaking, female and male bonobos have a weird relationship. First, there’s the sex. It’s the females who decide when and with whom they mate. They easily parry unwanted sexual advances—and the males know better than toContinuar Leyendo
Those who climb indoors are doing something for their health. But climbing shoes contain chemicals of concern that can enter the lungs of climbers through the abrasion of the soles. In a recent study, researchers from the University of Vienna and EPFL Lausanne have shown for the first time thatContinuar Leyendo
