Botox wrinkles
鈥淒ermal fillers have no more controls than a bottle of floor cleaner,鈥� says a UK Department of 91色情片 review of cosmetic treatments. The authors recommend qualifications for those who perform non-surgical procedures such as botox injections. Dermal fillers should be prescription-only, and doctors should be aware if their patient is undergoing surgery.
Space batteries
NASA is to install lithium-ion batteries on the International Space Station. The batteries are similar to those used on Boeing鈥檚 787 Dreamliner aircraft, all 50 of which are currently out of service following two battery fires. But NASA insists they are safe and says they will be installed outside the crew modules.
Hunting fatigue
There鈥檚 no place to hide for the elusive agent causing chronic fatigue syndrome. The world鈥檚 largest effort to unmask the cause of the disease was launched this week in the UK. The CFS/ME Research Collaborative will follow several lines of enquiry, including individual differences in cell metabolism.
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European influx
Europe was shaped by a massive wave of migration around 6000 years ago, in which the first Stone Age farmers were replaced by new groups from the Iberian peninsula. Genetic analysis of ancient skeletons shows little trace of the first farmers in modern populations, pointing to an influx of interlopers (Nature Communications, ).
Emissions seesaw
The UK鈥檚 carbon footprint has grown 10 per cent in the last two decades, despite the country鈥檚 greenhouse gas emissions falling by 20 per cent, according to the government鈥檚 . That鈥檚 because the UK imports so many consumer products, the manufacture of which produces emissions.