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MI weekly selection #536

MI weekly selection #536

Weekly Selection

By César Tomé

Bonobos show pro-social cooperation between groups Bonobos demonstrate cooperation between different social groups such as forming alliances and sharing food, according to a study of wild adult bonobos in the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Bonobos show that the ability to maintain peaceful between-group relationships while extending acts of pro-sociality and […]

Crosslinking pectin for the simultaneous removal of multiple pollutants from water

Crosslinking pectin for the simultaneous removal of multiple pollutants from water

Chemical engineeringChemistryDIPC Polymers

By DIPC

Chemical contamination of water bodies on one hand, and water shortages due to overexploitation on the other, have increased the need for effective and efficient water treatment and decontamination processes. Two important aspects need to be taken into consideration to define what is an “effective and efficient” treatment. First, as current methods of removing pathogens […]

Greenland ’s glaciers are melting at an unprecedented pace

Greenland ’s glaciers are melting at an unprecedented pace

EcologyGeosciences

By César Tomé

In the largest survey of its kind ever conducted researchers from the University of Copenhagen firmly established a fivefold increase in the melting of Greenland ‘s glaciers over the last 20 years. Using both satellite imagery and old aerial photos from the Danish National Archives, researchers from the University of Copenhagen firmly establish that Greenland’s […]

Platelets participate in hippocampal neurogenesis and cognitive function

Platelets participate in hippocampal neurogenesis and cognitive function

BiologyBiomedicineNeurobiology

By Invited Researcher

Platelets Author: José R. Pineda got his Ph.D. from University of Barcelona in 2006. Since 2007 he has worked for Institut Curie and The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission. Currently he is a researcher of the UPV/EHU. He investigates the role of stem cells in physiologic and pathologic conditions. There is currently a […]

MI weekly selection #535

MI weekly selection #535

Weekly Selection

By César Tomé

A way to grow plants in lunar soil Scientists have discovered a way to turn the moon’s soil into fertile ground for growing plants. Researchers used volcanic material to create simulated lunar regolith and treated the soil with bacteria to increase phosphorus availability, which allowed benth, a relative of tobacco, to grow with healthier stems […]