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The Palladin Institute of Biochemistry in Kyiv, the first dedicated biochemistry research institute in the former Soviet Union, founded in 1925 by Oleksandr Palladin, has suffered catastrophic damage in the overnight Russian strikes on Kyiv on July 1-2, 2026. Two of the institute’s four buildings were ruined in two attack waves around midnight and 5:30 […]
The June 2026 heatwave that broke temperature records across Europe also exacted a staggering human toll, according to a preliminary statistical estimate released on June 30. Christopher Callahan of Indiana University Bloomington estimates that approximately 20,390 excess deaths occurred across Europe during the week of June 22–28, a single-week mortality burden comparable to entire summer […]
For patients with both end-stage kidney disease and terminal bladder dysfunction, the standard of care has historically been kidney transplantation combined with urinary diversion, rerouting urine through segments of intestine, which brings risks of infection, metabolic disturbances, and reduced quality of life. A transplant that includes the bladder itself has been a surgical aspiration, but […]
Materials designed for multispectral concealment face a fundamental trade-off. To be visible in one color — say, blue, to blend with sky backgrounds — a material must absorb and reflect specific visible wavelengths. But to be invisible in the mid-infrared, where thermal cameras operate, it must remain transparent to infrared radiation. The problem is that […]
It is not your imagination: June 2026 was the warmest June on record for England, and the second-warmest for the United Kingdom as a whole, according to provisional data released by the Met Office on July 1. England’s mean temperature for the month was 17.1°C, nearly 3°C above the long-term June average, and enough to […]
Materials designed for multispectral concealment face a fundamental trade-off. To be visible in one color, say, blue, to blend with sky backgrounds, a material must absorb and reflect specific visible wavelengths. But to be invisible in the mid-infrared, where thermal cameras operate, it must remain transparent to infrared radiation. The problem is that the electronic […]
On July 2, 2026, the first patient was enrolled in the first-ever treatment trial for Bundibugyo ebolavirus disease, a milestone that has been nearly two decades in the making and arrives as the current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda has surpassed 1,400 cases and 440 deaths. The trial, called PARTNERS (Platform […]
On July 2, 2026, the first patient was enrolled in the first-ever treatment trial for Bundibugyo ebolavirus disease, a milestone that has been nearly two decades in the making and arrives as the current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda has surpassed 1,400 cases and 440 deaths. The trial, called PARTNERS (Platform […]
It is not your imagination: June 2026 was the warmest June on record for England, and the second-warmest for the United Kingdom as a whole, according to provisional data released by the Met Office on July 1. England’s mean temperature for the month was 17.1°C, nearly 3°C above the long-term June average, and enough to […]
For more than a century, physics has been caught between two incompatible descriptions of reality. General relativity describes gravity as the curvature of spacetime, smooth, continuous, classical. Quantum mechanics describes everything else as probabilistic, discrete, and fundamentally uncertain. Marrying them into a theory of quantum gravity has been the holy grail of theoretical physics for […]
