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Green fabrication of hybrid materials as highly sensitive X-ray detectors

New bismuth-based organic-inorganic hybrid materials show exceptional sensitivity and long-term stability as X-ray detectors, significantly more sensitive than commercial X-ray detectors. In addition, these materials can be produced without solvents by ball milling, a mechanochemical synthesis process that is environmentally friendly and scalable. More sensitive detectors would allow for a reduction in the radiation exposure during X-ray examinations.

X-ray imaging is indispensable in…

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May 9, 2025
Improving newborn genetic screening | ScienceDaily

More than a decade ago, researchers launched the BabySeq Project, a pilot program to return newborn genomic sequencing results to parents and measure the effects on newborn care. Today, over 30 international initiatives are exploring the expansion of newborn screening using genomic sequencing (NBSeq), but a new study by researchers from Mass General Brigham highlights the substantial variability in gene selection among those programs. In a paper published in Genetics in Medicine, an official…

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May 9, 2025
Can frisky flies save human lives?

When fruit flies are infected with the Wolbachia bacteria, their sex lives — and ability to reproduce — change dramatically.

Arizona State University scientist Timothy Karr decided to find out why. What he discovered could help curb mosquito-borne diseases and manage crop pests. And that’s just the “tip of the iceberg,” he says.

Promiscuous flies

Wolbachia is a parasitic bacteria that lives inside insect cells. It infects at least two out of every five insect species. Since insects…

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May 9, 2025
New gene linked to severe cases of Fanconi anemia

Fanconi anemia is an aggressive, life-threatening disorder. Most individuals living with this rare genetic condition, characterized by bone marrow failure and cancer predisposition, survive into adulthood only with bone marrow transplantation and regular cancer screening. But a new study demonstrates that mutations in one particular gene in the Fanconi anemia pathway result in an even more severe form of the disorder — and that many fetuses with this mutation do not survive to birth.

The…

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May 9, 2025
Wasp mums use remarkable memory when feeding offspring

Wasp mothers have stunning brainpower when it comes to feeding their young, new research shows.

Digger wasps make a short burrow for each egg, stocking it with food and returning a few days later to provide more.

The study reveals that mother wasps can remember the locations of up to nine separate nests at once, rarely making mistakes despite the fact nests are dug in bare sand containing hundreds belonging to other females.

Mothers feed their young in age order, adjusting the order if one…

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May 9, 2025
Canadian unemployment rate hits six-month high amid US-imposed tariffs | Business and Economy

Statistics Canada showed an unemployment rate of 6.9 percent, with most cuts in the manufacturing sector.

Canada’s unemployment jumped to its highest level since November as United States President Donald Trump’s imposed tariffs affect the export-dependent economy.

Statistics Canada showed a 0.2 percent increase for the month of April, bringing the country’s unemployment rate to 6.9 percent, according to its report released on Friday.

The 6.9 figure matched November unemployment, which…

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May 9, 2025
27 martyrs, 85 injuries in Israeli massacres in Gaza in the past 24 hours

GAZA, (PIC)

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced on Friday that 27 martyrs and 85 injuries were reported in Israeli massacres in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours.

Since March 18, 2025, the number of casualties has reached 2,678 martyrs and 7,308 injuries, the ministry added.

This brings the death toll from the Israeli aggression to 52,787 martyrs in addition to 119,349 injuries since October 7, 2023.

A number of victims remain under the rubble and on the roads,…

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May 9, 2025
Why Trump agreed to ceasefire with Houthis that ignores Israel, root causes

Despite heavy bombardment, the Houthis retained significant missile and drone capabilities, adapted tactically, inflicted a $1 billion cost on US and emerged more strategically valuable to Iran.

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May 9, 2025
‘Mindless’ damage: Two convicted of cutting down historic Sycamore Gap tree | Environment News

In 2023, the pair cut down the almost 200-year-old tree on Hadrian’s Wall in northern England.

A British court has found two men guilty of cutting down the famous “Sycamore Gap” tree in what prosecutors called a “moronic mission”.

Newcastle Crown Court found former friends Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, guilty of criminal damage on Friday for the 2023 felling of the tree at Sycamore Gap.

The historic tree, estimated to be almost 200 years old, stood at the centre of a…

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May 9, 2025
Trump Meets Privately with Israel’s Ron Dermer ahead of Middle East Visit – Report

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer. (Design: Palestine Chronicle)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff

Dermer, described as a “close confidant” of the Israeli Prime Minister, also met with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday.

US President Donald Trump met with Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer at the White House on Thursday and discussed the nuclear talks with Iran as well as the war on Gaza, Axios reported, citing two…

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May 9, 2025