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💊 This temporary tattoo could detect an unwanted drug in your drink
#wearables

This temporary tattoo could detect an unwanted drug in your drink
Researchers reporting in ACS Sensors have created a temporary tattoo sticker that has a hidden, but possibly lifesaving, purpose: detecting the presence of one drug used to "spike" alcoholic beverages and facilitate sexual assault. The sticker responds within 1 second to even low concentrations of the drug γ-hydroxybutyrate (GHB).

Adam Subhas has been leading the LOC-NESS project
—short for Locking away Ocean Carbon in the Northeast Shelf and Slope
—since 2023.
The ongoing research initiative is evaluating the effectiveness and environmental impact of a marine carbon dioxide removal approach called "ocean alkalinity enhancement" (OAE). 
This method of marine carbon dioxide removal involves adding alkaline substances to the ocean
to boost its natural ability to neutralize acids p…

The LOC-NESS Project
Locking away Ocean Carbon in the Northeast Shelf and Slope

Sound Signal Synthesis with Auxiliary Classifier GAN, COVID-19 cough as an example
Yahya Sherif Solayman Mohamed Saleh, Ahmed Mohammed Dabbous, Lama Alkhaled, Hum Yan Chai, Muhammad Ehsan Rana, Hamam Mokayed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08892

Sound Signal Synthesis with Auxiliary Classifier GAN, COVID-19 cough as an example
One of the fastest-growing domains in AI is healthcare. Given its importance, it has been the interest of many researchers to deploy ML models into the ever-demanding healthcare domain to aid doctors and increase accessibility. Delivering reliable models, however, demands a sizable amount of data, and the recent COVID-19 pandemic served as a reminder of the rampant and scary nature of healthcare that makes training models difficult. To alleviate such scarcity, many published works attempted to …

I hadn't had a drink in ages and don't particularly feel like changing this. But otherwise this could be an amazing self-research project for my Spanish learning!
«The 2025 #IgNobel Peace Prize went to researchers who proved a popular myth: a small dose of #alcohol can improve foreign language pronunciation!»
https://mstdn.science/@serhii/115241769055871087

🍸 'Super alcohol' created in space-like lab reveals cosmic secrets
#chemistry

'Super alcohol' created in space-like lab reveals cosmic secrets
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers in the Department of Chemistry have created a molecule once thought too unstable to exist called methanetetrol using extreme, space-like conditions. The discovery could reshape our understanding of chemistry in the universe and shed light on the complex reactions happening in deep space.

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
While crustaceans are common as #zooplankton, insects are very rare, but one group is found globally in freshwaters. Chaoborus (phantom midge or glassworm) spend the majority of their life as predaceous plankton, but are familiar to many when the adults emerge lake…

Modelling and Simulation of an Alkaline Ni/Zn Cell
Felix K. Schwab, Britta Doppl, Niklas J. Herrmann, Alice Boudet, Shadi Mirhashemi, Sylvain Brimaud, Birger Horstmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05026 …

Modelling and Simulation of an Alkaline Ni/Zn Cell
Nickel/zinc (Ni/Zn) technology is a promising post-lithium battery type for stationary applications with respect to aspects such as safety, environmental compatibility and resource availability. Although this battery type has been known for a long time, the theoretical knowledge about the processes taking place in the battery is limited. In order to gain a deeper understanding of the general cycling behaviour and the underlying processes, but also specific phenomena intrinsic to zinc-based cell…

"Water Cremation" - also known as hydrolysis,
involves water, heat and an alkaline solution being applied to a body in a chamber similar to that used in cremation.
And while the current method of reducing a person’s remains to ashes requires enormously high temperatures,
those in favour of water cremation say it is far less energy intensive and therefore more environmentally friendly.

Scotland to be first part of UK to introduce water cremation
Changes to legislation have paved the way for a more environmentally friendly and ‘gentler’ option for body disposal

💪 Cleaner, cooler and cheaper: Upgraded catalyst system achieves low-temperature oxidation
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-cleaner-cooler-cheaper-catalyst-temperature.html

Cleaner, cooler and cheaper: Upgraded catalyst system achieves low-temperature oxidation
What if chemical manufacturers could cut their energy costs while eliminating toxic heavy metals from their processes? Researchers at Nagoya University have developed a catalyst system that does exactly that by converting alcohols to valuable chemical products at lower temperature using safer iodine compounds instead of dangerous heavy metals, expensive precious metals, and reagents.