Science news of the day thread.

[rainbow]

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For the terminally curious...

For the worminally curious....

...wait for the next segment.

[JimC]

...except nematodes are not segmented...

[Tero]

[Tero]

diabetes 1
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/w ... tem-cells/

[Brian Peacock]

They said getting the chemistry just right was a bit of headache, but...

Everyday painkiller made from plastic — by E. coli

Study highlights potential for sustainable synthesis of paracetamol

A common bacterium can be adapted to convert plastic waste into paracetamol, a study published this week in Nature Chemistry reports.

Paracetamol, also known as acetaminophen, is widely used to treat pain and fever. It is produced from molecules derived from fossil fuels, but researchers are working to develop processes that use more sustainable source molecules, such as plastic waste.

“We’re able to transform a prolific environmental and societal waste into such a globally important medication in a way that’s completely impossible using chemistry alone or using biology alone,” says co-author Stephen Wallace, a chemical biotechnologist at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Central to the project’s success was the discovery by Wallace and his team that a synthetic chemical reaction that typically requires conditions that are toxic to cells can occur in their presence. The reaction, called the Lossen rearrangement, has been known for more than a century, but had previously been observed only in a test tube or a flask, says Wallace...

Read the paper here.

[rainbow]

They said getting the chemistry just right was a bit of headache, but...

Which is why you don't get aspirin in the jungle.

Parrots eat 'em all.

[Brian Peacock]

[Tero]

Microbes to the rescue
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... -chemicals
Some gut microbes can absorb and help expel ‘forever chemicals’ from the body, research shows

[Tero]

Science story fails to mention carbon cycle. Which you can then easily google
https://www.theguardian.com/science/202 ... y-know-why

[rainbow]

Microbes to the rescue
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... -chemicals
Some gut microbes can absorb and help expel ‘forever chemicals’ from the body, research shows

Cholestyramine: microplastic based on amine functionalised polystyrene.

[Tero]

embryo floats down to attach to uterus. Not really that dramatic to view. The uterus is just a blank color wall.
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-heal ... 63280dd086

[macdoc]

IEA: Renewables Will Be World’s Top Power Source “by 2026”
Last Updated on: 18th August 2025, 11:55 pm

Renewable energy will overtake coal to become the world’s top source of electricity “by 2026 at the latest”, according to new forecasts from the International Energy Agency (IEA).

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/08/18/ie ... e-by-2026/

[pErvinalia]

Coal is the future. The LNP told me so.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Everybody is saying coal is a great power source. That's why the US has made sure it's subsidized. According to a bought and paid for liar it's clean, affordable, and reliable.

[Svartalf]

Everybody is saying coal is a great power source. That's why the US has made sure it's subsidized. According to a bought and paid for liar it's clean, affordable, and reliable.

reliable, I can get, at least until it runs out, affordable, ditto, but clean?