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Storing Solar Power Increases Energy Consumption and Emissions, Study Finds

AUSTIN, Texas — Homes with solar panels do not require on-site storage to reap the biggest economic and environmental benefits of solar energy, according to research from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. In fact, storing solar energy for nighttime use actually increases both energy consumption and emissions compared with sending excess solar energy directly to the utility grid. (more…)

Antidote for partisanship? In science, curiosity seems to work

Disputes over science-related policy issues such as climate change or fracking often seem as intractable as other politically charged debates. But in science, at least, simple curiosity might help bridge that partisan divide, according to new research. (more…)

Wie Metalle mit dem Erbgut wechselwirken

Seit einigen Jahren werden Metallverbindungen erfolgreich als Chemotherapeutika zur Bekämpfung bestimmter Krebsarten eingesetzt – am häufigsten Platinverbindungen. Bei der Suche nach neuen, wirksameren Antitumormitteln steht oft das fehlende Verständnis der zugrundeliegenden molekularen Mechanismen in diesen Metallverbindungen im Wege. Ein internationales Forschungsteam um Leticia González von der Universität Wien hat nun ein Verfahren entwickelt um die Wechselwirkung von Metallverbindungen mit dem zellulären Erbgut zu beobachten. (more…)

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One Belt, One Road international forum

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke at the opening of the One Belt, One Road international forum in Beijing. The event is dedicated to China’s projects – the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. (more…)

Astronauts join debate on how – and if – humans will get to Mars

A journey to Mars is going to take all we got…It’s going to take all mankind

Former Apollo astronauts at a space symposium on May 8 doubted whether commercial companies will be able to accomplish human space travel, while representatives of those companies talked about redefining what it means to succeed—or fail—in such grand endeavors. (more…)

Stark in der Arbeit

Forscher haben im Verbundprojekt „Resilire“ Instrumente zur Förderung der psychischen Widerstandskraft entwickelt

Von einem Termin zum nächsten eilen, dazwischen mit einem verärgerten Kunden telefonieren und dann noch ein neues Projekt planen: Resilienz oder auch psychische Widerstandskraft unterstützt Beschäftigte dabei, mit solch hohen Arbeitsanforderungen erfolgreich umzugehen und sogar daran zu wachsen. (more…)

Paper examines potential — for better or worse — of ‘in vitro gametogenesis’

In Science Translational Medicine, three experts discuss the implications of a lab technology — already far along in mice — that could allow for the creation of fertilized embryos using sperm and eggs derived from non-reproductive body tissues.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Even in such game-changing reproductive advances as in vitro fertilization or mitochondrial replacement therapy, what has remained necessary is that the gametes — the sperm and the egg — come from the father’s testes and the mother’s ovaries, respectively. But a new lab technology rapidly advancing in mouse studies could upend that biological imperative by, at its hypothetical endpoint, creating embryos from sources such as repurposed skin cells. (more…)