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{"mod_blog_articles":{"rows":[{"status":40,"date":"2025-10-16 10:09:06","title":"Engineering healing with nanofiber antibiotic delivery","content":"\n\nA new kind of bandage is taking shape in a Krak\u00f3w laboratory, the perfect bandage. One that doesn\u2019t just cover a wound, but actively delivers medicine right where it\u2019s needed, slowly, steadily, and without the side effects of swallowing a pill. It looks like an ordinary piece of fabric, yet within its delicate fibers lies a system designed to fight infection with precision. This is the focus of a study published in [The Journal of Physical Chemistry B] by a team from the **Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Krak\u00f3w**. Physicists Olga Adamczyk, Ewa Juszy\u0144ska-Ga\u0142\u0105zka, Aleksandra Deptuch, Tomasz Tarnawski, Piotr Zieli\u0144ski, and Anna Drzewicz have engineered nanofiber mats that can deliver the antibiotic **metronidazole** directly to where it\u2019s needed. Steadily, safely, and without the side effects of conventional treatments.\n\nMost of us take medicine in the form of pills, injections, or creams. But these \u201cconventional\u201d methods have a big draw","featured_media":"","stats_views":66,"stats_likes":0,"stats_saves":0,"stats_shares":0,"author_firstname":"Paperleap","author_lastname":null,"category_name":"General","sID":"0cccyw","slug":"engineering-healing-with-nanofiber-antibiotic-delivery-0cccyw","category_sID":"0cccc0","category_slug":"general-0cccc0","author_slug":"paperleap-0cccc0"},{"status":40,"date":"2025-10-15 01:07:01","title":"Lessons from the Ice Age: climate change and human survival","content":"\n\nThirteen thousand years ago, Europe was a land in transition. Glaciers were retreating, forests were spreading north, and herds of reindeer still roamed the open plains. Hunter-gatherer families survived through hunting, fishing, and foraging, adjusting to each new shift in their surroundings. Then the climate suddenly turned cold again. Forests died back, rivers froze, and food became scarce. For those who lived through it, survival became a question of endurance and adaptation.\n\nThat\u2019s the question tackled by a study published in [PLOS ONE] titled **\u201cLarge scale and regional demographic responses to climatic changes in Europe during the Final Palaeolithic.\u201d** The research, conducted by a large international team of archaeologists from Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Denmark, Portugal, the UK, and beyond, asks: **how did Europe\u2019s last hunter-gatherers cope when the climate turned against them?**\n\n### A look into Europe at the end of the Ice Age\n\nThe **Final Palaeolithic** mar","featured_media":"https:\/\/data.paperleap.com\/mod_blog\/0cccyg\/m_68e85d80035a8INx_th.jpg","stats_views":186,"stats_likes":0,"stats_saves":0,"stats_shares":0,"author_firstname":"Paperleap","author_lastname":null,"category_name":"General","sID":"0cccyg","slug":"lessons-from-the-ice-age-climate-change-and-human-survival-0cccyg","category_sID":"0cccc0","category_slug":"general-0cccc0","author_slug":"paperleap-0cccc0"},{"status":40,"date":"2025-10-14 03:05:07","title":"Understanding venom differences from desert to rainforest","content":"\n\nLiving in India\u2019s countryside, chances are you\u2019ll hear of the Russell\u2019s viper. This thick, brown, chain-patterned snake is responsible for more snakebite deaths and injuries in India than any other species. Every year, thousands of rural farmers and field workers suffer its bite, often with devastating consequences.\n\nBut not all Russell\u2019s viper bites are created equal. Depending on where you are in India, the venom can act very differently, sometimes attacking blood, sometimes destroying tissue, sometimes triggering life-threatening complications in organs. The same species, but a wildly varied bite.\n\nA new study by Navaneel Sarangi, Senji Laxme, and Kartik Sunagar from the Centre for Ecological Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, explains that climate itself (temperature, rainfall, and seasonal shifts) plays a huge role in shaping the venom. Their work, published in [PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases], uses predictive modelling to connect weather pattern","featured_media":"https:\/\/data.paperleap.com\/mod_blog\/0cccys\/m_68e85b66f1822qc6_th.jpg","stats_views":277,"stats_likes":0,"stats_saves":0,"stats_shares":0,"author_firstname":"Paperleap","author_lastname":null,"category_name":"General","sID":"0cccys","slug":"understanding-venom-differences-from-desert-to-rainforest-0cccys","category_sID":"0cccc0","category_slug":"general-0cccc0","author_slug":"paperleap-0cccc0"},{"status":40,"date":"2025-10-13 06:10:05","title":"Cracking the mystery of glass","content":"\n\nGlass is one of the most familiar yet puzzling materials in our daily lives. Whether it\u2019s a drinking glass, a window, or a fiber-optic cable, we encounter it constantly. Unlike crystals, which have neatly ordered atomic structures, glass is disordered, more like a frozen liquid. Hidden within this disorder is a phenomenon that has puzzled scientists for decades: the **boson peak**.\n\nA research team from Japan, spanning universities and institutes in Tsukuba, Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka, has now uncovered how the boson peak connects to another long-standing glass mystery: the **first sharp diffraction peak (FSDP)**. Their study, published in *Scientific Reports* in March 2025, reveals a direct relationship between the two. In essence, they\u2019ve found a bridge between the structure of glass at the atomic level and the way it vibrates and carries energy.\n\nLet\u2019s unpack what that means, and why it matters for everything from stronger smartphone screens to better thermal insulation.\n\n### ","featured_media":"https:\/\/data.paperleap.com\/mod_blog\/0cccyf\/m_68d7dc4941dcdBqM_th.jpg","stats_views":365,"stats_likes":0,"stats_saves":0,"stats_shares":0,"author_firstname":"Paperleap","author_lastname":null,"category_name":"General","sID":"0cccyf","slug":"cracking-the-mystery-of-glass-0cccyf","category_sID":"0cccc0","category_slug":"general-0cccc0","author_slug":"paperleap-0cccc0"},{"status":40,"date":"2025-10-12 07:02:09","title":"How lifestyle choices shape your future health","content":"\n\nThe choices we make in early adulthood, including whether we smoke, how much we drink, or how often we exercise, can leave a lasting imprint on both body and mind. A new study from Finland shows that these habits echo decades later, influencing not only physical health but also mental well-being and self-perceptions of health well into our sixties.\n\nThis research, published in [Annals of Medicine], was conducted by Tiia Kek\u00e4l\u00e4inen of Laurea University of Applied Sciences and the University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4, alongside Johanna Ahola, Emmi Reinil\u00e4, Tiina Savikangas, Marja-Liisa Kinnunen, Tuuli Pitk\u00e4nen, and Katja Kokko. Their findings come from one of the world\u2019s longest-running psychological and health studies, the **Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4 Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (JYLS)**, which has been following Finns born in 1959 for more than fifty years.\n\nThe dangers of smoking, heavy drinking, and inactivity are well established. What makes this study unique is its abili","featured_media":"https:\/\/data.paperleap.com\/mod_blog\/0cccyk\/m_68d7d769309bdYng_th.jpg","stats_views":461,"stats_likes":0,"stats_saves":0,"stats_shares":0,"author_firstname":"Paperleap","author_lastname":null,"category_name":"General","sID":"0cccyk","slug":"how-lifestyle-choices-shape-your-future-health-0cccyk","category_sID":"0cccc0","category_slug":"general-0cccc0","author_slug":"paperleap-0cccc0"},{"status":40,"date":"2025-10-11 06:03:01","title":"Nanoscale tattoos for tough tardigrades","content":"\n\nDrawing a tattoo on something smaller than a grain of sand that can also survive outer space, boiling water, and radiation sounds impossible. Yet a team of scientists in Hangzhou, China, has managed it. Their unusual canvas? Tardigrades, the microscopic creatures affectionately nicknamed **water bears**.\n\nResearchers from Westlake University and the Westlake Institute for Optoelectronics reported in [Science Bulletin] that they had successfully used advanced semiconductor manufacturing techniques (the same ones employed in making computer chips) to etch nanoscale patterns directly onto living tardigrades. In short, the toughest animals on Earth now wear tattoos.\n\nBefore diving into the \u201ctattooing,\u201d let\u2019s appreciate the star of the show. Tardigrades are tiny, eight-legged animals that typically measure between 0.1 and 1.2 millimeters long, barely visible without a microscope. Despite their small size, they have earned a big reputation.\n\nTardigrades can survive extreme cold (clos","featured_media":"https:\/\/data.paperleap.com\/mod_blog\/0cccyj\/m_68d7d4ee66e21XaB_th.jpg","stats_views":557,"stats_likes":0,"stats_saves":0,"stats_shares":0,"author_firstname":"Paperleap","author_lastname":null,"category_name":"General","sID":"0cccyj","slug":"nanoscale-tattoos-for-tough-tardigrades-0cccyj","category_sID":"0cccc0","category_slug":"general-0cccc0","author_slug":"paperleap-0cccc0"},{"status":40,"date":"2025-10-10 02:09:09","title":"Why sponges absorb less than we think","content":"\n\nMost of us know foams in everyday life, whether it\u2019s the frothy bubbles on top of a latte, the lather from shampoo, or the thick cushion of suds in a bubble bath. But foams aren\u2019t just fun; they\u2019re workhorses across industries. They clean oil spills, help extract valuable minerals from rocks, keep fires in check, and even make desserts delightfully fluffy.\n\nScientists have long been fascinated by foams because they are a strange hybrid of matter. They behave a little like gases, a little like liquids, and a little like solids, all at the same time. One of their most useful tricks is absorption: foams can soak up liquids like oil and water. But here\u2019s the catch. For decades, theory predicted that foams should be able to hold far more liquid than they actually do in real-world conditions.\n\nNow, a team of physicists from Tokyo Metropolitan University, Aoi Kaneda and Rei Kurita, has tackled this puzzle head-on. Their study, published in [Journal of Colloid and Interface Science],","featured_media":"https:\/\/data.paperleap.com\/mod_blog\/0cccyr\/m_68d7cf1a2798a5FE_th.jpg","stats_views":663,"stats_likes":0,"stats_saves":0,"stats_shares":0,"author_firstname":"Paperleap","author_lastname":null,"category_name":"General","sID":"0cccyr","slug":"why-sponges-absorb-less-than-we-think-0cccyr","category_sID":"0cccc0","category_slug":"general-0cccc0","author_slug":"paperleap-0cccc0"},{"status":40,"date":"2025-10-09 05:09:09","title":"OLEDs may be the key to holography","content":"\n\nImagine sitting in your living room, and instead of pulling up a flat screen, you switch on a device the size of a matchbox. A crisp holographic image appears in midair, a lifelike projection that feels pulled straight from science fiction.\n\nThat vision just came a little closer to reality, thanks to new research from the University of St Andrews in Scotland. In a paper published in [Light: Science & Applications], physicists Junyi Gong, Mohammad Biabanifard, Kou Yoshida, Graham A. Turnbull, Andrea Di Falco, and Ifor D. W. Samuel unveiled a compact way to project holographic images using something already inside your smartphone: OLEDs.\n\nIf you own a modern smartphone or television, you\u2019re already familiar with OLEDs, or organic light-emitting diodes. These ultra-thin, flexible, and energy-efficient light sources are made from carbon-based materials. They\u2019re widely used in consumer electronics because they produce vivid colors while being lightweight and relatively simple to manuf","featured_media":"https:\/\/data.paperleap.com\/mod_blog\/0cccyq\/m_68d7cbb3ae533slO_th.jpg","stats_views":756,"stats_likes":0,"stats_saves":0,"stats_shares":0,"author_firstname":"Paperleap","author_lastname":null,"category_name":"General","sID":"0cccyq","slug":"oleds-may-be-the-key-to-holography-0cccyq","category_sID":"0cccc0","category_slug":"general-0cccc0","author_slug":"paperleap-0cccc0"},{"status":40,"date":"2025-10-08 05:12:05","title":"The tug-of-war that begins every pregnancy","content":"\n\nThe earliest days of life are often imagined as fragile and still, a small cluster of cells quietly dividing within the womb. Yet research shows this stage is far more dynamic. Embryos are not passive passengers. They push, pull, and actively work their way into place.\n\nA study published in [Science Advances] by a team from the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) in Barcelona and Tel Aviv University reveals that human and mouse embryos use very different mechanical strategies to implant in the uterus. These physical forces, the embryo tugging at and reshaping its surroundings, may help explain why implantation sometimes fails, leading to infertility or miscarriage.\n\nBefore pregnancy can progress, an embryo must achieve a critical step: embedding into the uterine lining. This process, known as implantation, is often described in textbooks as simple \u201cattachment\u201d and \u201cinvasion,\u201d like a seed extending roots. In practice, it resembles a construction project intertwine","featured_media":"https:\/\/data.paperleap.com\/mod_blog\/0cccye\/m_68d7c9e10b023dc2_th.jpg","stats_views":849,"stats_likes":0,"stats_saves":0,"stats_shares":0,"author_firstname":"Paperleap","author_lastname":null,"category_name":"General","sID":"0cccye","slug":"the-tug-of-war-that-begins-every-pregnancy-0cccye","category_sID":"0cccc0","category_slug":"general-0cccc0","author_slug":"paperleap-0cccc0"},{"status":40,"date":"2025-10-07 12:12:12","title":"Socialization lessons from mountain gorillas","content":"\n\nWhen we think about friendship, the first images that come to mind are often laughter, support, and a shoulder to lean on. Yet a long-term study of mountain gorillas shows that, just like in humans, social life is not always a straightforward path to better health or longer life. The same bonds that offer protection can sometimes carry hidden costs.\n\nThis conclusion comes from a 21-year study of 164 wild mountain gorillas in Rwanda\u2019s Volcanoes National Park, published in [Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)]. The research was led by Robin E. Morrison at the University of Zurich, working with colleagues from the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund in Rwanda and the University of Exeter in the UK.\n\nThe findings show that a gorilla\u2019s social life is a double-edged sword. Whether being outgoing helps or harms depends on the individual and the group they live in.\n\n### Why gorillas? Why social life?\nHumans are not the only species whose health depends heavily on relationships. D","featured_media":"https:\/\/data.paperleap.com\/mod_blog\/0cccy4\/m_68d7c6ebf308cIHC_th.jpg","stats_views":929,"stats_likes":0,"stats_saves":0,"stats_shares":0,"author_firstname":"Paperleap","author_lastname":null,"category_name":"General","sID":"0cccy4","slug":"socialization-lessons-from-mountain-gorillas-0cccy4","category_sID":"0cccc0","category_slug":"general-0cccc0","author_slug":"paperleap-0cccc0"}],"total":97,"pagesize":10,"page":1},"mod_blog_settings":{"excerpt_length":50},"head":{"title":"Articles","description":"Articles","og_image":"https:\/\/www.paperleap.com\/data\/mod_blog\/featured_media.png","og_url":"https:\/\/www.paperleap.com\/blog\/articles"},"theme":{"description":"Articles"}}