James Webb Space Telescope – Deep Field: SMACS 0723
The James Webb Space Telescope Delivers the Universe's Deepest Infrared Image to Date NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has created the most detailed and precise infrared image of the far reaches of the cosmos to date. This incredibly detailed image of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is known as Webb's First Deep Field.Webb's perspective has seen the first appearance of thousands ...
Bioinspired, 3D Printed Heart Valves
3D printed heart valves: have been created that allow the patient's own cells to regenerate new tissue. The research team have developed a new fabrication platform that allows them to combine several exact, personalised designs and thereby fine-tune the scaffold's mechanical properties using melt electrowriting (an advanced additive manufacturing technology). Their long-term goal is to build implants for children that ...
‘A major hurdle has been surmounted’ to restore hearing with a new method to regenerate hearing cells lost in aging.
Date: May 4, 2022Northwestern University is the source for this information. Summary: Hearing loss caused by aging, noise, and certain cancer medications is irreversible because scientists haven't been able to reprogram existing cells to develop into the outer and inner ear sensory cells, which are necessary for hearing. However, scientists have recently uncovered a single master gene that divides ear ...
Aesculapian Snake – 1896
This is an often seen image on social media and other internet sites, so I thought I would give a bit of background on it: The photogravure was created from an early volume of X-ray by Josef Maria Eder (1855–1944), a director of a graphic processes institution, and Eduard Valenta (1857–1937), a photochemist, both from Austria. According to The Met, ...
Temperature threshold for commercial fusion achieved
Tokamak Energy, based in Oxford UK, has announced that its ST-40 spherical tokamak reactor has attained a temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius, which it claims is the threshold for commercial fusion energy.For more than 75 years, the promise of a viable fusion reactor has stayed frustratingly out of reach, with one appearing to be just a few decades away for ...
Taste receptors found in lung blood vessels could help ICU patients
Bitter taste receptors have been discovered in an unexpected area of the body, the walls of blood vessels in the lungs. The discovery could lead to a novel pharmacological target for the treatment of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a potentially fatal consequence of a variety of diseases.A new study conducted by Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) researchers has discovered a ...
Plastic particles found in the human bloodstream for the first time
The first evidence of plastic particles being absorbed into the bloodstream has been produced by scientists in the Netherlands using novel analytical tools. Microplastics have been proven to induce aneurysms in fish and cognitive impairment in hermit crabs, and the negative effects have been witnessed on marine organisms. Plastic particles have been found in every sample of human tissue and ...