University professor and researcher Dr Axel Schambach poses in undated photo. His pioneering research at Hannover Medical School, Germany, aimed to cure hearing loss was rewarded with a grant. (Karin Kaiser, MHH/Newsflash)

Europe / General News / Science

German Researcher Gives Hope To Millions With New Gene Therapy To Tackle Hearing Loss

A researcher in Germany is hoping to cure millions of people affected by hearing loss with a new gene therapy. Over 430 million people around the world suffer from genetic deafness. Genetic changes in more than 150 genes can be to blame for the sensory disorder. One researcher wants to…

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November 30, 2022

Physicist Dr Larysa Baraban, poses in undated photo. She was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to continue developing bio-nanosensors for medical diagnostics at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, in Dresden, Germany. (HZDR/Newsflash)

Europe / General News / Science

Immunotherapy Chip Could Create Customised Cures

A researcher developing a miracle microchip that can identify cancer cells and predict how they will act has been awarded a EUR 2 million grant to develop the tech. The cash injection is to be used to adapt the technology to customise immunotherapies tailored to treat individual patients. Physicist Dr…

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November 8, 2022

The archaeological site of Kemune in the dried-up area of the Mosul reservoir. (Universities of Freiburg and Tubingen, KAO/Newsflash)

Archaeology / Europe / General News

Archaeologists Scramble To Investigate 3,400-Year-Old City Emerging From Tigris River In Iraq Before It Is Submerged Again

A team of archaeologists had to scramble to investigate a 3400-year-old city before it was submerged again after it emerged from the Tigris River in Iraq due to drought. Their fast reaction allowed them to discover over 100 ancient clay tablets, with one researcher labelling the discovery and the fact…

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June 9, 2022

The researchers behind an energy system that makes it possible to capture solar energy, store it for up to eighteen years and release it when and where it is needed have now taken the system a step further. (Chalmers University of Technology, Daniel Spacek, neuroncollective.com/Newsflash)

Europe / General News / Science

New Tech Means Solar Power Could Be Stored For 18 Years

A radical new system to generate energy on demand from solar power no matter what the weather has been hailed a radical breakthrough by Swedish scientists. Users will be able to power up gadgets and even their homes with stored solar energy in an emissions-free, carbon-neutral closed loop. And solar…

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May 3, 2022

Brittany Collins of The Nature Conservancy measures oysters and crabs on 10th of February 2021, on a restored reef in the Hillcrest Oyster Sanctuary. (Bo Lusk/Newsflash)

Environment / General News / North America And Caribbean

Ruined Oyster Reefs Can Be Restored Say Experts

Oyster reefs almost wiped out by centuries of neglect can be restored in just six years, say marine experts at the University of Virginia. And even 'functionally extinct' reefs that have lost up to 85 per cent of their population can come back quickly, the study reveals. Study lead Rachel…

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April 22, 2022

Scientists ascending to the research station in the Hohe Tauern National Park in Austria. (ZAMG, Niedermoser/Newsflash)

Environment / Europe / General News

Mountains Of Nanoplastic Deposits From London And Paris Found At 3106-Metre Altitude In Alps

Microscopic pieces of plastic from European cities such as London and Paris have been detected in the Austrian Alps at about 3,106 metres above sea level. Recent measurements taken at the Sonnblick Observatory, which is located in the Austrian Hohe Tauern mountain range, have shown that around 42 kilogrammes of…

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February 13, 2022

The newly discovered alpine rose leaf miner which was found in the Alps. (Juerg Schmid/Newsflash)

Europe / General News / History

Moth Species Found To Have Survived Trapped On Alpine Mountainside Since Last Ice Age

This beautiful speckled white moth is of a previously unknown population that has survived isolated hundreds of miles from any similar moths since the last ice age, 12,000 years ago, after it learned to live by eating a plant too toxic for anything else to eat. The Alpine rose leaf-miner…

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November 30, 2021

Cretapsara athanata: The first crab in amber from the dinosaur era. (Lida Xing/Newsflash)

General News / North America And Caribbean / Science

Scientist Discovers Worlds Oldest Non Marine Crab Trapped In Amber For 100 Million Years

A researcher in Canada has discovered the oldest non-marine crab ever which also happens to be the most complete fossil of a crab ever discovered because it was trapped in amber for over a 100 million years. The University of Alberta said in a statement that the discovery was made…

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October 30, 2021

The face restoration of the skull of Hualong Cave No. 6 A: Hualong Cave No. 6 fossil; B: virtual reconstructed skull; C: physical reconstructed skull; D: sculptured skull; E: reconstructed image. (Ancient Spine Institute, Chinese Academy Of Sciences/AsiaWire)

Archaeology / Asia / General News

US Researcher Says Working On Worlds Oldest Human Remains Is A Dream

Experts in China have unearthed what could be the world's oldest human remains ever discovered, dating back as far as 331,000 years. AsiaWire has spoken to one of the paper's co-authors, Professor Kristian Carlson from the University of Southern California, in an exclusive interview, and he said working on the…

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October 26, 2021

But speaking in an exclusive interview with CGTN - the China Global Television Network, which is owned by state-owned China Central Television - from his medical centre, Didier Raoult, the controversial researcher and microbiologist in the south-eastern French city of Marseille, said: "No one knows how to make a pathogenic virus."

Europe / General News / Health

Virus Expert Didier Raoult Says COVID Is Not Man-Made

The French expert researcher who caused international headlines when he promoted the merits of hydroxychloroquine - which President Trump recently admitted he is taking - says there is no way that COVID-19 could have been man-made. The question of whether COVID-19 was developed by humans in a laboratory has been…

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May 24, 2020