Nestle wants to make all of its packaging reusable or recyclable within five years Swiss food giant Nestle said Thursday it would invest 2.0 billion Swiss francs (1.8 billion euros, $2.1 billion) over five years to cut its use of virgin plastics in favour of food-grade recycled plastics. The company, whose […]
11-year-old Bertrand Might (center) surrounded by his family, including his father, Matt Might (second from right), and his mother, Cristina Might (second from left). Credit: The Might family Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute have shown that cells from children with NGLY1 deficiency — a rare disorder first […]
A column of ash surrounds the crater of Taal Volcano as it erupts on Jan. 12, 2020, with lightning in the background, as seen from Tagaytay city, in the Philippines. (Image: © Ezra Acayan/Getty Images) A volcano in a densely populated part of the Philippines has started to belch clouds […]
A protein called Sestrin might be responsible for many of the benefits of a good workout. Whether it be a brisk walk around the park or high-intensity training at the gym, exercise does a body good. But what if you could harness the benefits of a good workout without ever […]
Between 2005 and 2016, the shift away from coal saved an estimated 26,610 lives and 570 million bushels of crops. The decommissioning of coal-fired power plants in the continental United States has reduced nearby pollution and its negative impacts on human health and crop yields, according to a new University […]
This year is the deadline for the landmark deal to go into effect, yet half a decade of diplomatic wrangling has fallen far short of what science says is needed to avert disastrous climate change 2020 is the most crucial year yet for humanity’s plan to dodge the bullet of […]
Study links rise in bureaucracy — now 34.2% of health spending — to surging overhead of private insurers; cutting US administrative costs to Canadian levels would have saved more than $600 billion in 2017. A study published on January 6, 2020, in the Annals of Internal Medicine finds that health care bureaucracy cost Americans […]
MIT chemists have devised a way to observe the transition state of the chemical reaction that occurs when vinyl cyanide is broken apart by an ultraviolet laser. Credit: Christine Daniloff, MIT Screen could offer better safety tests for new chemicals: Using specialized liver cells, a new test can quickly detect […]
(Image: © Shutterstock) Artificial sweeteners are everywhere, but the jury is still out on whether these chemicals are harmless. Also called non-nutritive sweeteners, these can be synthetic — such as saccharin and aspartame — or naturally derived, such as steviol, which comes from the Stevia plant. To date, the U.S. […]
Findings from NIH-funded study could inform treatment strategies. Identical twins with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often experience large differences in symptom severity even though they share the same DNA, according to an analysis funded by the National Institutes of Health. The findings suggest that identifying the causes of this variability may […]