The ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider establishes record precision on the mass of the Higgs bosons

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The candidate Higgs boson decays into two photons

The candidate Higgs boson decays into two photons in the ATLAS experiment. Credit: CERN New result from the ATLAS experiment a[{” attribute=””>CERN reaches the unprecedented precision of 0.09%. The ATLAS collaboration has achieved the most precise measurement to date of the Higgs bosons mass, reporting a value of 125.11 billion electronvolts with minimal uncertainty. The … Read more

Ozempic users report stomach paralysis from diet drug: ‘So much hell’

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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 17: In this photo illustration, boxes of the diabetes drug Ozempic rest on a drugstore counter on April 17, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Ozempic was originally approved by the FDA to treat people with type 2 diabetes, who risk serious health consequences without medication. In recent months, there has been a spike in demand for Ozempic, or semaglutide, due to its weight-loss benefits, which has led to shortages. Some doctors prescribe Ozempic off-label to treat obesity. (Photo illustration by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Photo illustration by Mario Tama/Getty Images Since Ozempic was first released to the public in 2018, the diabetic injectable has become a favorite for fans, even those without diabetes, for weight loss. Others in its class of drugs, such as Wegovy, have also seen an increase in demand, so high that the Food and Drug … Read more

Record-breaking quantum context observed in a single system

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Experimental test of high-dimensional quantum contextuality

The schematic diagram for extracting contextuality from tripartite nonlocality. Credit: Image by Zheng-Hao Liu, et al. A team of scientists studied the single-system version of multipartite Bell nonlocality and observed the highest degree of quantum contextuality in a single system. Their work has been published in Physical Review Letters. They were led by Prof. Chuanfeng … Read more

Hidden Drugs: New illicit substances that activate only inside your body

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The conversation

Drug traffickers have found a way to deceive law enforcement using one of the most powerful tools at our body: our metabolism. Welcome to the world of prodrugs. Prodrugs are substances that can only cause an effect after being broken down by enzymes in the digestive system or by other chemical reactions in the body. … Read more

How fentanyl changed the game for Mexican drug cartels

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Griselda Martinez, mayor of Manzanillo

One Sunday morning in May, after leaving a restaurant in western Mexico, Sergio Emmanuel Martnez, the new customs director of the country’s largest port, was kidnapped. The next day, he was found dead alongside a highway, making him the fourth Port of Manzanillo customs official to be murdered in less than two years. Manzanillo is … Read more

Tame undomesticated bacteria with a highly efficient genome engineering tool

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Tame undomesticated bacteria with a highly efficient genome engineering tool

Featured article | 24-Jul-2023 A new strategy makes it easy for newly discovered bacteria to introduce stable new traits. DOE/US Department of Energy image: SAGE enables high-efficiency multi-site integration of genetic cargo with recyclable gene containers in bacteria. This facilitates the introduction of DNA-carrying genetic circuits and metabolic pathways to engineer microorganisms to enhance crop … Read more

WVU researchers capture atomic view of synthetic DNA, revealing molecular scissors that could cure disease

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Starcovic Lab

image: Sarah Starcovic, a doctoral student in biochemistry and molecular medicine at West Virginia University in Cameron, conducts research in the lab of WVU School of Medicine associate professor Aaron Robarts. visualization Moreover Credit: WVU Photos/Hannah Maxwell Researchers at West Virginia University are now able to visualize synthetic DNA at the atomic level, giving them … Read more

The new system could threaten Florida’s east coast, the hurricane center says

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The Tropical Perspective at 2.00pm on Monday 24 July 2023. (NHC)

The National Hurricane Center has begun tracking a new system in the Atlantic that has the potential to develop into a tropical depression or storm off the Florida coast. In its 2pm tropical update, the NHC said a weak low pressure depression was a few hundred miles south of Bermuda but could develop as it … Read more

Scientists believe that rogue planets are flying through our universe

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rogue planets

Anyone who’s ever played D&D knows that rogues are sneaky, and rogue planets are no exception. According to The Byte, scientists now believe there are trillions of rogue planets—planets without an orbiting star—lurking around the Milky Way right under our noses. “We estimate that our galaxy is home to 20 times more rogues… Keep reading … Read more