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NASA images unlock complex history of two near-Earth asteroids
In the moments before NASA’s DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos in a landmark planetary defense test in 2022, it took high-resolution images of this small celestial object and its larger companion Didymos.
These images…
Immune cell map of pigs lung offers insights to improve human and animal health
Researchers from the Babraham Institute and the Pirbright Institute have mapped the immune cell landscape of the pig lung and how this is impacted by immunological challenge.
Their analysis reveals lasting immunological consequences…
NASA-Funded Studies Explain How Climate Is Changing Earth’s Rotation
Researchers used more than 120 years of data to decipher how melting ice, dwindling groundwater, and rising seas are nudging the planet’s spin axis and lengthening days.
Days on Earth are growing slightly longer, and that change is…
Yellowstone Biosciences spinout launches to advance cutting-edge cancer therapies
Yellowstone Biosciences, a biotechnology spinout, has launched to pioneer new cancer treatments using advanced T-cell therapies based on ground-breaking research from the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at University…
Scientists use computational modeling to guide a difficult chemical synthesis
Researchers from MIT and the University of Michigan have discovered a new way to drive chemical reactions that could generate a wide variety of compounds with desirable pharmaceutical properties.
These compounds, known as…
MIT researchers identify routes to stronger titanium alloys
Titanium alloys are essential structural materials for a wide variety of applications, from aerospace and energy infrastructure to biomedical equipment. But like most metals, optimizing their properties tends to involve a tradeoff…
Australian researchers present potential new treatment option for nicotine addiction
Smokers seeking to conquer their addiction may have a new treatment option following the results from a clinical trial led by Monash University, which found a combination of varenicline and nicotine lozenges significantly improved smoking…
Scientists provide groundbreaking insights into new class of materials for energy harvesting and…
New study unravels the electronic mechanisms governing chemical bonding of new class of materials called incipient metals with metavalent bonding (MVB) within a single 2D layer of Group IV chalcogenides that can boost energy harvesting and…
Glowing dye helps surgeons eradicate prostate cancer
Cancer Research UK-funded scientists, based at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) and the Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Oxford University Hospitals and Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre used a…
NUS scientists uncover a missing link between poor diet and higher cancer risk
A research team from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has unearthed new findings which may help explain the connection between cancer risk and poor diet, as well as common diseases like diabetes, which arise from poor…