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| − | * | + | * China won gold in the women’s team final at the 2026 World Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam, edging out the U.S. by just .233 point. <small>([[China#October_21|more]])</small> [[File:China.gif]] |
| − | * | + | * Indonesia, Qatar, Pakistan, and Turkey signed an agreement in Doha aimed at boosting defence cooperation and strengthening defensive capabilities. <small>([[Indonesia#October_21|more]])</small> [[File:Indonesia.gif]] |
| − | * | + | * A Japanese flagship H3 rocket carrying the unmanned Martian Moons eXploration probe was launched on its way to one of Mars's moons on a world-first mission to retrieve samples. <small>([[Japan#October_20|more]])</small> [[File:Japan.gif]] |
| − | * | + | * Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain rallied from a set and a break down to beat Rafael Jodar 1-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4 and win the 2026 Shanghai Masters tennis title. <small>([[Spain#October_18|more]])</small> [[File:Spain.gif]] |
| − | * | + | * Poland’s Maja Chwalińska defeated Britain’s Sonay Kartal 2–6, 6–4, 6–2 in the 2026 Wuhan Open tennis final in China, claiming her very first WTA Tour singles title. <small>([[Poland#October_19|more]])</small> [[File:Poland.gif]] |
| − | * | + | * Astronomers at the University of Warwick, England analyzing white dwarf stars have for the first time found a star that would appear green to human eyes. <small>([[England#October_15|more]])</small> [[File:England.gif]] |
| − | * | + | * Doctors in Saudi Arabia successfully separated 13-month-old Fijian conjoined twins, Dicecea and Jesepeli Kikau, at the King Abdullah Specialist Children’s Hospital. <small>([[Saudi_Arabia#October_15|more]])</small> [[File:Saudi_Arabia.gif]] |
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| − | [[File: | + | [[File:D_EDITORS_PICKS_365.jpg|370px|left|link=https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2026/07/press-release-breath-not-blood-device-measures-fat-burning-in-exhaled-air.html|D+ Editor's Pic]] |
| − | <big>''' | + | <big>'''Breath, not blood: device measures fat burning in exhaled air'''</big> |
| − | <br />Researchers have | + | <br />Researchers from ETH Zurich have developed a portable measuring device that detects the metabolic marker acetone in breath almost as accurately as a mass spectrometer. It can be used by laypeople and detects when the body starts burning fat when dieting or during exercise. |
| − | + | Thanks to a smartphone app that guides test subjects in real time, the hand-held device can also be used reliably by non-experts. | |
| − | + | In future, this should allow diets and therapies for metabolic disorders to be more closely monitored and personalised. <small>([https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2026/07/press-release-breath-not-blood-device-measures-fat-burning-in-exhaled-air.html More])</small> | |
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