
Nature - 1 day 11 hours ago
Fourteen months after treatment with engineered immune cells, the recipient has no symptoms and doesn't need to take medication.

Retraction Watch - 1 day 14 hours ago
As the publishing community debates the merits of naming sleuths in retraction or correction notices, one journal did so without the sleuth's permission by publishing an email from the authors naming her as the correction notice. The sleuth calls it "ethical editorial malpractice." The publisher says it was an "administrative error." After Retraction Watch … Continue reading A journal named a sleuth in a correction. The sleuth says that was ethical editorial malpractice'...

Huffington Post - 1 day 19 hours ago
A U.S. judge says the officer who canceled Harvard researcher Ksenia Petrova's visa didn't have the proper authority...

GeekSpin - 1 day 19 hours ago
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced in Washington new federal steps on microplastics and pharmaceuticals in drinking water. The move puts both contaminants on the EPA's draft Sixth Contaminant Candidate List (CCL 6), the first formal step in the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) […] Read the original article here: U.S. will start testing drinking water for microplastics...

The Conversation - 1 day 23 hours ago
Cities have the best chance of reducing water use when people actively participate in water conservation, but even that might not be enough in the future.

IEEE Spectrum - 2 days 24 min ago
Identifying bacteria by sight can be quite difficult. Why not listen to them instead? Researchers at TU Delft in the Netherlands and the university's spinoff company SoundCell think that bacterial infections could be diagnosed with sound. They've crafted a nanoscale drum kit that uses some of the world's smallest percussion instruments to turn a bacterium's motions into song . Previously, the Delft researchers showed that listening to a germ's drumbeat could quickly screen it...

NPR - 2 days 2 hours ago
The crew of the Orion spacecraft continue to beam back images from their lunar flyby. The photos reveal previously unseen details of the far side of the moon.

Last Word On Nothing - 2 days 3 hours ago
We went back to the Moon. People were just there again, going around it and then coming home. And other people will land there again soon, maybe in the next two years, assuming all goes well and as planned at the beloved, beleaguered American space agency. Four humans were at the Moon on Monday, the […] The post To the Moon, Our Moon, and Back appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .

Australian Geographic - 2 days 5 hours ago
In 1964, Australian armed forces fight Indonesian troops in Borneo and on the Malay Peninsula. The post Defining Moments in Australian History: Our forgotten war appeared first on Australian Geographic .