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Researchers at the University of Bath say their method, using ceramic-infused lattices (or ‘monoliths’), removes at least 75% of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), one of the most common perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS), from water, and could become an important tool in future efforts to eliminate the chemicals from water supplies.

Their findings were published this week in The Chemical Engineering Journal.”

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“Testing of the monoliths has surprisingly shown they have become more effective under repeated use – they undergo high-temperature thermal ‘regeneration’ treatment after each use. This is something the researchers are keen to understand more fully with further experimentation.”

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Looking for Flynn effects in a recent online U.S. adult sample: Examining shifts within the SAPA Project (www.sciencedirect.com)

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Big mission science and large infrastructure projects take a systems-based approach. Can we do the same for sustainability science? (poliversity.it)

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Early Life Exposure to Common Chemical Permanently Disrupts Gut Microbiome (www.psu.edu)

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The Strange Heat Island Lurking Beneath Minneapolis (www.atlasobscura.com)

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Significant Link Found Between Heme Iron, Found in Red Meat and Other Animal Products, and Type 2 Diabetes Risk (www.hsph.harvard.edu)

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Wet-lab innovations will lead the AI revolution in biology (substack.com)

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DUNE Scientists Observe First Neutrinos with Prototype Detector at Fermilab (newscenter.lbl.gov)

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Spike Protein of SARS-CoV-2 Activates Cardiac Fibrogenesis through NLRP3 Inflammasomes and NF-κB Signaling (www.mdpi.com)

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Supporting at-risk and displaced Sudanese scientists: offers of assistance, news and resources (poliversity.it)

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Science at risk: a race against time to protect seeds in Sudan (poliversity.it)

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Bacteria Encode Hidden Genes Outside Their Genome — Do We? (www.cuimc.columbia.edu)

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Since the genetic code was first deciphered in the 1960s, our genes seemed like an open book. By reading and decoding our chromosomes as linear strings of letters, like sentences in a novel, we can identify the genes in our genome and learn why changes in a gene’s code affect health.

This linear rule of life was thought to govern all forms of life—from humans down to bacteria.

But a new study (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11100668/) by Columbia researchers shows that bacteria break that rule and can create free-floating and ephemeral genes, raising the possibility that similar genes exist outside of our own genome.

“What this discovery upends is the notion that the chromosome has the complete set of instructions that cells use to produce proteins,” says Samuel Sternberg, associate professor of biochemistry & molecular biology at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, who led the research with Stephen Tang, an MD/PhD student at the medical school.

“We now know that, at least in bacteria, there can be other instructions not preserved in the genome that are nonetheless essential for cell survival.”

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Physicists Pinpoint the Quantum Origin of the Greenhouse Effect (www.quantamagazine.org)

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Researchers offer alternatives to Eurocentric ways of doing things (poliversity.it)

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