AbbVie announced that the FDA has rejected its application for ABBV-951 to control motor fluctuations in advanced Parkinson’s disease patients. Foscarbidopa and foslevodopa, the prodrugs for the widely used carbidopa and levodopa, respectively, are already included in AbbVie’s Duopa as part of the treatment. Prodrugs are versions of drugs that work once they are in […]
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Recently, the Chinese Ministry of Education approved a new surveillance device in schools. These are connected pens that allow you to know the general working time and the time required for the student to answer a question or perform an exercise. Smart pens In 2018, we mentioned a surprising surveillance device tested in China. It […]
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NASA has just awarded several contracts aimed at demonstrating the potential of nuclear fission systems to power lunar infrastructures. The agency and the US Department of Energy have selected three design proposals that could be deployed on the Moon by the end of the decade to support the Artemis lunar exploration program. NASA and its […]
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Although poliomyelitis was eradicated more than two decades ago, a strain has been identified several times this year in the sewers of a London district. The local health authorities as well as the WHO are very attentive to this discovery. A type 2 poliovirus in London Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious viral disease that […]
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A new therizinosaurus dinosaur from the Osoushinai Marine Formation in Japan provides insight into the function and evolution of these animals’ claws. It is also the youngest therizinosaurus fossil from Japan and the first in Asia to have been found in marine sediments. A new dinosaur in Japan Therizinosaurs were a large group of theropod […]
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A team of researchers has found that with continued global warming, the ocean is gradually losing its “memory”. These results, published on May 6 in the journal Science Advances, have strong implications for seasonal predictability and the socio-economic sectors that depend on it. The ocean has considerable thermal inertia. A familiar example is the seaside […]
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In Guatemala, archaeologists have discovered the oldest recorded evidence of the Mayan calendar: two fragments of wall paintings. When assembled, these reveal a notation known as “7 stags”. Details of the study are published in the journal Science Advances. Four Mayan Calendars The Maya had four calendars. One is the sacred divination calendar or Tzolk’in. […]
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A recent French study highlights the significant pollution emanating from astronomy research. This work is emerging at a time when all sectors of activity must reduce their CO2 emissions as much as possible. Astronomy emits a lot of CO2 Today, the fight against greenhouse gas emissions is a global priority. In November 2021, the Global […]
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Methane (CH4) currently contributes up to 20% of anthropogenic global warming. However, a study maintains that the changes observed since 2010 in the rate of increase in methane are mainly linked to emissions from tropical continents. The results were published in the journal Nature Communications on March 16. Remember that since the beginning of the […]
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Recent work based on a set of satellite measurements and field observations confirms the ability of boreal forests to modulate the reflectivity of low level clouds. However, this influence could moderate the future rise in temperatures on a continental scale. The results were published in the scientific journal Nature Geoscience. Forests have diverse and varied […]
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