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Researchers have identified a new mechanism by which misplaced mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) can cause inflammation, offering potential targets for therapeutic intervention against autoimmune diseases and aging-related inflammation. Credit: SciTechDaily.comSalk scientists outline mouse cell inflammation pathway from mitochondrial stress to leaking endosomes to immune system initiation, revealing new potential therapeutic targets to reduce inflammation in aging and disease.Cells in the human body contain power-generating…

ADEO being deployed from the ION Satellite Carrier during the December 2022 test.Gif: High Performance Space Structure Systems/GizmodoThere’s a lot of junk orbiting our planet, from tiny flecks of paint to defunct rocket stages. While solutions to remove pre-existing debris have been developed, a private space company in Germany has successfully tested a method to deorbit satellites at the end of their life to prevent them from becoming space debris in the first place.The Drag Augmentation Deorbiting System (ADEO)…

THROOP, Pa.— The highest prices in years have made producing natural gas profitable just about anywhere. But with companies trimming their emissions and new tax breaks for waste-to-energy projects, some of the most lucrative places to extract gas are garbage dumps.  Down the western slope of Keystone Sanitary Landfill, a knot of pipes, membranes and compressors draws fumes from within the mountain of rotting trash, separates the methane from other gases, and pumps it into northeast Pennsylvania’s…

The Federal Communications Commission wants to do something about in low Earth orbit. On Thursday, the agency (via ) that, if adopted, would put a deadline on how long non-geostationary satellites can stay in space. As things stand, voluntary NASA guidelines published in the 1990s recommend that dead satellites should be deorbited within 25 years. The FCC wants to adopt a five-year rule that would require domestic satellite operators and companies that want access to the US market to dispose of their non-functioning…

The cleaning robot space has many products from numerous brands today, but one of the earliest big names in the segment is American company iRobot. The original Roomba cleaning robot was launched in 2002, and its successors have become progressively better over the years in terms of core vacuuming capabilities as well as other features such as smart connectivity and battery life. One of iRobot's newest products in India takes automation of the cleaning process a step further, with automatic dirt disposal.Priced at Rs.…

A bag of ISS waste is jettisoned from the Bishops Airlock on July 2, 2022. Gif: Nanoracks/GizmodoPrivate space company Nanoracks has announced the successful first test of a new technology to get rid of trash from the International Space Station.The International Space Station may seem glamorous, but astronauts aboard the orbital outpost still have to take out the trash. It’s currently a tedious and costlyprocess, but Houston-based Nanoracks announced yesterday the successful test of a new waste management system that’s…

At a student orientation in 2002, Ron Gonen told his professors and peers at Columbia Business School that he hoped to build a business that was both financially successful and environmentally sustainable. The response was “dead silence,” he recalls. “People thought I was there by mistake.”Twenty years on, Mr. Gonen, 47, counts Microsoft, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unileveramong his investors as the founder and CEO of Closed Loop Partners, a firm that invests in the technology and infrastructure needed to boost recycling rates…

The techniques our cells use to dispose of waste products offers some exciting avenues for us to potentially intervene in their behavior, whether it's clogging up these garbage disposal systems to bring cancer undone or repairing their defects to tackle Alzheimer's. Research from MIT has shown how this activity is ramped up during cell division, with the newly discovered mechanism potentially offering scientists a "toggle" for treating these kinds of diseases.The breakthrough centers on cellular cleaning organelles called…