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Lanthanides are rare-earth heavy metals with useful magnetic properties and a knack for emitting light. Researchers had long assumed that lanthanides' toxicity risk was low and therefore safe to implement in a number of high-tech breakthroughs we now take for granted: from OLEDs (organic light-emitting displays)¬¬ to medical MRIs and even hybrid vehicles.

Scientists have compiled the most complete library yet of lanthanide heavy metals, used in many high-tech breakthroughs and long assumed to be low risk, and their potential toxicity using baker's yeast to lanthanides. Their findings could help researchers uncover hidden pathways between lanthanide metals and disease.

0 Shares Illustration of a supernova explosion. Such swirling masses of matter gave shape to the earliest forms of carbon – precursors to molecules some scientists say are connected to the synthesis of the earliest forms of life on Earth. (Credit: NASA images/Shutterstock) F or nearly half a century, astrophysicists and organic chemists have been on the hunt for the origins of C 6H 6, the benzene ring – an elegant, hexagonal molecule comprised of 6 carbon and 6 hydrogen atoms. Astrophysicis...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Senior staff scientist Musahid Ahmed (left) and postdoctoral researcher Wenchao Lu near the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Berkeley Lab on May 21, 2021. They used a special technique, which... view more  Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab For nearly half a century, astrophysicists and organic chemists have been on the hunt for the origins of C 6H 6, the benzene ring - an elegant, hexagonal molecule comprised of 6 carbon and 6 hydrogen atoms. Astrophysicists say that the benz...

Published: 2 Jun 2021, 14:05 By: Hybrid plant combining wind, solar and battery storage in Zaragoza, Spain. Image: Siemens Gamesa. There are several potential benefits to pairing electricity generation with energy storage, but US network operators still have some way to go to best accommodate the fast-growing interest in so-called ‘hybrid resources’. That was one of the key takeaways of a recently published white paper, authored by staff at the US’ Federal Energy Regulatory ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 27, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today joined the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and others in unveiling the new Perlmutter supercomputer powered by AMD EPYC™ 7003 Series processors. The new supercomputer at Berkeley Lab will provide four times the computational power currently available at NERSC,…

Tech giant NVIDIA on Thursday launched a new supercomputer claimed to be the fastest in the environment for AI (artificial intelligence) workloads at the Nationwide Energy Research Scientific Personal computer Middle (NERSC) in California.

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The University Of Utah: New Effort To Map The Universe, Unravel Mysteries Of 'Dark Energy' - Salt Lake City, UT - Spectra collected by DESI are the components of light corresponding to the colors of the rainbow. As the universe expands, galaxies move ...

— New system will enable next-gen research on clean energy, climate and more for the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center — SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 27, 2021 --... | May 27, 2021