Swiss and Japanese chemists have developed a cross-coupling reaction of organosodium compounds with alkyl halides. First, they learned to obtain dimerization products of organosodium compounds in the presence of an iron catalyst, and then optimized the cross-coupling reaction. The study…
Paleoanthropologists have digitally reconstructed the partially preserved pelvic bones of the ancient hominin DHN-43 from Drimolen, who lived in South Africa about two million years ago. Due to the paucity of comparative material from the era,…
A UK researcher has found that proximity to a phone does not affect how often people are distracted while working on a computer. A small study found that people are more likely to pick up their phone when it is close to…
The World Health Organization has released its first status reports on the diagnosis and treatment of priority invasive fungal infections, outlining their key findings in a press release. The documents highlight the critical inadequacy of existing analytical…
US researchers have for the first time transplanted a patient's own immature germline stem cells, harvested as a child before chemotherapy left him sterile, into his testicle. Did he start producing sperm,…
Jasmin Mujkanovic and colleagues at Copenhagen University Hospital conducted a population-based cohort study and found that long-term use of antidepressants was associated with an increased risk of sudden cardiac death. The analysis included…
Norwegian scientists have calculated that every additional hour of screen time before bed increases the risk of insomnia by 59 percent. To do this, they conducted a survey on screen time distribution and sleep quality among…
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