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Researchers have created a hollow CdS@polydopamine nanoreactor that imitates two important features of living cells. The design offers a new way to reproduce some of the highly organized chemical functions of cells inside synthetic nanomaterials. The findings were published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The research was led by Prof. LI Can at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with Prof. Jian Liu’s team at Inner Mongolia University. Recreating Cellular Chemistry at the Nanoscale Living cells carry out complex biochemical reactions with exceptional efficiency and precision. They…

PHILADELPHIA—This summer has brought the full force of a changing climate, with wildfire smoke, extreme heat, flash flooding and severe storms continuing a trend of increasingly extreme weather affecting the city. But during negotiations over the city’s budget throughout the spring, climate policy was largely neglected.  Democratic council members Mark Squilla and Jamie Gauthier said that while the budget, signed into law in June, included some wins for sustainability, climate issues took a backseat to this year’s more urgent push for school funding. “Every year something takes priority. So, how does it end up being the environment that ends up…

A £150 million (around €175.6 million) extreme environment center capable of simulating currents, waves and wind is planned to be built in the UK, enabling the testing of technologies in realistic simulated conditions for the subsea and offshore wind markets, among other things. Source: Marine Energy Wales Being developed by NauteXe Global at Exeter Science Park, the NauteXe Extreme Environment Centre (NEEC) will allow organizations that operate in complex and hazardous environments to test their technologies in realistic simulated conditions. The facility will feature a research and development test tank, measuring 60 meters by 40 meters, with depths of up…

Conservative outsider Abelardo de la Espriella is about to be sworn in as Colombia’s new president. Gustavo Petro, the soon to be former leftist president, began his own term hoping to bring peace to the country by negotiating with a wide array of criminal and ideological armed groups under his “total peace” strategy. That approach failed. In contrast, de la Espriella has promised peace and security through a vigorous campaign of law and order, including constructing megaprisons similar to those in El Salvador. Big swings in the approach to conflict are nothing new for Colombia, which faces multiple challenges from groups…

The claim that a video authentically showed a white woman calling the police on a Black man and his two children, who were sitting by a swimming pool by an apartment building is still under investigation.  The video was first posted on Aug. 3, 2026, by a the Facebook account of a Black man named Leo Sullivan. Sullivan provided the address of the apartment building where the incident took place in reply to comments below his post. Snopes confirmed that the video showed the same pool shown in photos of the residential complex, known as Arden of Warrenville in Warrenville,…

No-frills airline EasyJet has agreed to be taken over in a £5.7bn deal by US firm Apollo after a rival bidder dropped out.The takeover was agreed after US investment firm Castlelake, which had made a series of offers for the carrier, said it was withdrawing from the bid battle.Apollo said it wants to help the airline grow and that it does not intend to cut any jobs in the first 12 months after the takeover has been completed, implying that passengers can expect largely the same service.EasyJet is one of Europe’s largest airlines. It employs more than 19,000 people, and…

The next great First Amendment battleground is just six inches high and is attached to about a million motor vehicles in Virginia alone. It is the vanity license plate, and courts are splintered over whether and how states can censor the messages the plates convey.The latest decision landed Friday. It involved Curtis Whateley, who paid Virginia $10 in 2023 for a personalized license plate. He had seven characters to work with, and he sought to convey a statement “expressing my opinion on the current state of policing in this country,” as he would later put it in a lawsuit.He settled…

Andy Burnham’s government is “urgently” identifying any grooming gang perpetrators who may still be eligible for early prison release after concerns were raised about a potential loophole in the system.The prime minister has “personally intervened” after men convicted of assaulting children in Bradford were expected to be freed from prison early despite a promise earlier this week that they would remain behind bars.In a statement, No 10 said it would ensure that “everything possible is being done so that vile groomers are dealt with in the way their victims deserve”.About 5,000 people are expected to be released early under sentencing…

Ketlie Moise, owner of the Lantern Bar in downtown Springfield, Ohio, isn’t sure about much these days, but she is certain of one thing: being deported back to Haiti would be the equivalent of a death sentence.“If I go back, some people are going to kill me,” she said. “I think the situation is even more messed up than it was in 2019 when I left.”Moise is one of around 300,000 Haitians across the US who are facing deportation after losing their Temporary Protected Status, a humanitarian programme that has long been in President Donald Trump’s crosshairs.The scheme allows certain…

When a patient is seeking treatment, Logue says, she does not use their appearance to express concern or as a motivator, because there are always other contributing factors. With a public figure, Logue says, we don’t have real insights into these factors. Instead, most people focus on what their body looks like.Although a lot of commenters say they’re less worried about Grande individually and more concerned about the impact she may have on her young fans, Logue says focusing our efforts on celebrities’ appearances also doesn’t meaningfully combat aspirational thinness in our day-to-day lives, either.“Talking about how you look fat,…