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    New Dawn for Space Storm Alerts could help Shield Earth’s Tech

    July 22, 2024, Categories  Technology/Electronics, Astronomy/Space

    Scientists say it is now possible to predict the precise speed a coronal mass ejection (shown left in an artist's impression) is travelling at and when it will smash into Earth (bottom right moving in our direction) – even before it has fully erupted from the Sun (top right).
    Scientists say it is now possible to predict the precise speed a coronal mass ejection (shown left in an artist’s impression) is travelling at and when it will smash into Earth (bottom right moving in our direction) – even before it has fully erupted from the Sun (top right).
    Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Jhelioviewer
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    Space storms could soon be forecast with greater accuracy than ever before thanks to a big leap forward in our understanding of exactly when a violent solar eruption may hit Earth.

    Scientists say it is now possible to predict the precise speed a coronal mass ejection (CME) is traveling at and when it will smash into our planet—even before it has fully erupted from the sun.

    CMEs are bursts of gas and magnetic fields sp...

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    S. PEPITEM – a Novel Protective Agent for ‘Inflammageing’

    July 21, 2024, Categories  Health/Medical, Biology/Biotechnology

    Senior woman hand pain

    A naturally occurring peptide called PEPITEM could potentially rejuvenate the immune response in older individuals and protect against ‘inflammageing’, which is widely believed to be the root cause of many age-related diseases.

    The study, published today in the journal npj Aging, raises the exciting possibility of a protective agent that could dampen age-related inflammation and restore normal immune function in older adults.

    PEPITEM (Peptide Inhibitor of Trans-Endothelial Migration) was initially identified at the University of Birmingham in 2015. While the role of the PEPITEM pathway has already been demonstrated in immune-mediated diseases, this is the first data showing that PEPITEM has the potential to increase healthspan in an aging population.

    Researchers, led by Drs M...

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    Novel Electrode for Improving Flowless Zinc-Bromine Battery

    July 21, 2024, Categories  Chemistry/Nanotechnology

    Image title: Nitrogen-Doped Mesoporous Carbon-Coated Graphite Felt Electrodes
    Image caption: The novel electrodes effectively suppress the crossover of bromine and bromine complexe
    s, thus preventing self-discharge and enhancing the electrochemical performance and cycling stability of flowless zinc-bromine batteries.
    Image credit: Chanho Pak from Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
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    Researchers developed a novel electrode that effectively suppresses the harmful self-discharge phenomenon in flowless zinc-bromine batteries. The flowless zinc-bromine battery (FLZBB) is a promising alternative to flammable lithium-ion batteries due to its use of non-flammable electrolytes...

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    Exoplanet-Hunting Telescope to begin Search for Another Earth in 2026

    July 21, 2024, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    An artist's impression of the European Space Agency's PLATO spacecraft.
    An artist’s impression of the European Space Agency’s PLATO spacecraft.
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    ESA/ATG medialab
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    Europe’s next big space mission – a telescope that will hunt for Earth-like rocky planets outside of our solar system — is on course to launch at the end of 2026.

    PLATO, or PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars, is being built to find nearby potentially habitable worlds around Sun-like stars that we can examine in detail.

    The space telescope will blast into orbit on Europe’s new rocket, Ariane-6, which made its maiden flight last week after being developed at a cost of €4billion (£3.4billion).

    Dr David Brown, of the University of Warwick, is giving an update on the mission at the Royal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting at t...

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