Methylmercury: How microbes create the most toxic form of mercury
Mercury is extraordinarily toxic, but it becomes especially dangerous when transformed into methylmercury—a form so harmful ...
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Microbes Generate Most Toxic Mercury Form
Mercury is extraordinarily toxic, but it becomes especially dangerous when transformed into methylmercury – a form so harmful that just a few ...
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Philips obtains FDA clearance for radiotherapy scanner combining 4D and spectral CT in one scan
Philips has secured an FDA clearance for what it describes as the world’s first imager to combine spectral CT with ...
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Ending NASA’s Chandra Will Cut Us Out of the High-Resolution X-Ray Universe
The Chandra X-ray Observatory is the darling of high-energy astrophysics. Famed for providing unequaled x-ray views of ...
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Much ado about vacuum
Meet NSLS-II Vacuum Group Leader Robert Todd and learn about the crucial role high-tech vacuum systems play in maintaining ...
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How microbes create the most toxic form of mercury
Now, leveraging high-energy X-rays at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, researchers have identified an ...
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The secrets of fossil teeth revealed by the synchrotron: A long childhood is the prelude to the evolution of a large brain
Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...
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Argonne, UChicago partner to accelerate discovery of new cancer therapies using AI
The UChicago Medicine team will be led by Odunsi as co-principal investigator and includes Christopher Weber, Savas Tay, and ...
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Real-Time Imaging Provides a New Perspective on Nanoparticle Growth
An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of ...
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A step toward safer X-rays with new detector technology
X-rays are a common component of diagnostic testing and industrial monitoring, used for everything from monitoring your teeth to scanning your suitcase at the airport. But the high-energy rays also ...
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Fossil teeth hint at a surprisingly early start to humans’ long childhoods
Signs of temporarily delayed tooth development in the skull of an ancient Homo species youth spark debate about the origins of humanlike growth.
These 1.77-million-year-old teeth could help demystify human childhoods
In the new study, Zollikofer and his team examined several teeth that were uncovered over 20 years ago in the Caucasus ...