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Researchers at Curtin University have developed new technology for the rapid cleaning and re-use of drilling fluids, paving the way toward more efficient and environmentally-friendly mineral exploration.

The Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) collaboration has announced the discovery of three new exotic particles.

Environmental awareness in society is changing household laundry habits, where the use of less bleach and lower temperatures during washing machine cycles is encouraged.

Using a new method, scientists are better able to distinguish between mirror-image substances. This is important amongst others in drug development, because the two variants can cause completely different effects in the human body. Researchers from Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, EPF Lausanne (EPFL), and the University of Geneva describe the new method in the scientific journal Nature Photonics .

By comparing the neutralisation capacity induced by the different variants of SARS-CoV-2, a team from the UNIGE and the HUG reveals the exceptional capacity of Omicron to evade our immunity.

Scientists say continuous monitoring of the cholera bug genome is key to preventing outbreaks of new variants There's a real possibility that another cholera variant may emerge with the potential to cause large outbreaks Ankur Mutreja A new study reveals why a highly infectious variant of the cholera bug, which caused large disease outbreaks in the early 1990s, did not cause the eighth cholera pandemic as feared - but instead unexpectedly disappeared.

Valproic acid is a drug used to treat epilepsy, bipolar disorder and other psychiatric illnesses. While use of this drug by pregnant women has been associated with developmental and cognitive problems in children exposed during pregnancy, the mechanisms by which it causes these problems remain poorly understood.

A team of researchers led by the University of Bern has for the first time identified an unexpected richness of complex organic molecules at a comet. This was achieved thanks to the analysis of data collected during ESA-s Rosetta mission at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, also known as Chury. Delivered to the early Earth by impacting comets, these organics may have helped to kick-start carbon-based life as we know it.

Study identifies a new signaling molecule that increases the energy consumption of brown fat cells.

Professor Laurence Hurst from the Milner Centre for Evolution finds solution to the mystery of why most human embryos die young.