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Artemis II crew reaches lunar halfway point, streams new Earth images
NASA’s Orion spacecraft on the Artemis II mission passed the halfway mark to the Moon, about 192,000 km from Earth, on Friday. The four astronauts transmitted high‑resolution photographs of Earth’s cloud‑covered surface, underscoring the mission’s scientific and public‑relations goals.
A new analysis of more than 1.7 million live births in New South Wales reveals that 20% of maternal deaths occurring within five years of childbirth could have been avoided. The study, led by Dr Louise Makarious, points to suicide, accidental poisoning and undetermined intent as the primary preventable causes and calls for longer‑term postpartum support.
The Royal Horticultural Society announced an emergency water‑conservation program that will add rain gardens and rain‑water storage across its five flagship gardens. The plan, prompted by the driest spring in a century, aims to cut garden water use and guide...
Researchers at Texas A&M University identified a direct neural link between the brain's stress centers and habit‑forming regions, showing alcohol blocks this communication. The finding clarifies why stress can trigger addictive behavior and raises the prospect of meditation‑based stress management...
Aubrey de Grey, founder and CSO of the Longevity Escape Velocity Foundation, told listeners of Longevity Technology Unlocked that emerging therapies could rejuvenate people in their 60s back to a biological age of 40, buying roughly 20 years for further...
Agios Pharmaceuticals announced it will seek accelerated U.S. approval for its oral drug mitapivat to treat sickle‑cell disease, prompting a 21.7% rise in its shares. The company has already filed a confirmatory trial proposal with the FDA and is preparing...
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center and Berkeley Lab will host the 2026 Deep Learning for Science (DL4SCI) Summer School from July 20‑24. The five‑day intensive program emphasizes foundation models, reasoning‑centric workflows, and agentic AI for scientific discovery. Researchers...
The longevity factor spermidine is part of a highly heritable complex erythrocyte phenotype associated with longevity https://t.co/rHT8XoWHFz
China has integrated satellite‑guided tractors, autonomous seedling transporters and drone‑based spraying across more than 246,000 hectares during this year’s spring ploughing season. The rollout, backed by the 15th Five‑Year Plan, promises a 15% productivity lift while cutting water and fertilizer...
A new study by researchers at Germany’s Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam reveals that coral reef recovery hinges on population density patterns rather than just disturbance severity. Reefs with “concave” density—where adult corals cluster at...
NIST researchers led by physicist Nikolai Klimov introduced a hydroxide catalysis bonding (HCB) technique that creates glass‑like, inorganic bonds between optical fibers and photonic integrated circuits, allowing the chips to survive temperature swings, radiation and vacuum. The breakthrough could accelerate...
China’s Lijian‑2 carrier rocket successfully launched on March 30, marking the first flight of a vehicle built around a 3.35 m common booster core (CBC) design. The 53‑metre, 625‑ton rocket can deliver up to 8 t to a 500 km sun‑synchronous orbit and...
Researchers evaluated multiple chronic restraint stress (CRS) protocols in male mice, revealing that short, high‑intensity sessions (6 hours for three days) produce persistent avoidance and repetitive behaviors, while extended low‑intensity exposure (2 hours for ten‑plus days) leads to progressive deficits in reward‑seeking...
Researchers recorded hundreds of neurons in the medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) and hippocampal CA1 of mice performing a spatial match‑to‑sample task. They found that during immobility the MEC population frequently decoded positions far from the animal, a phenomenon termed non‑local...
The study reveals that activating the TrkB receptor in neurons triggers secretion of soluble CD22 (Siglec‑2), which dampens microglial inflammation and reverses depression‑like behaviors in male mice. A peptidomimetic compound, dSyn3, restores TrkB‑Gαi1/3‑Akt signaling, boosting CD22 levels, promoting dendritic spine...
Cysteine directs T cells to either multiply or attack tumors by fueling distinct metabolic pathways, suggesting new strategies to fine-tune immune responses in cancer therapy. immunometabolism
Great hammerhead sharks maintain high hunting performance across a broad range of ocean temperatures, indicating notable thermal flexibility that may influence their future distribution as ocean conditions change. marinebiology
The highly pathogenic H5N1 2.3.4.4b avian influenza strain has spread across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, now edging toward New Zealand after five years of isolation. The virus now infects hundreds of bird species and an expanding list of mammals,...
New #electrodynamics #physics video - looking at reflection and transmission of electromagnetic waves. Snell's law and Brewster's angle. https://youtu.be/_dFKj6OE05I
A University of São Paulo study on mice shows that stress during adolescence permanently disrupts the balance between excitatory and inhibitory neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex, whereas adult mice recover more quickly. The teenage mice exhibited lasting hyper‑excitability, irregular...
Researchers at Henan Academy, Zhengzhou University and Shenzhen University demonstrated that activating the Dectin‑1 receptor on regulatory T cells (Tregs) can reverse their dormant, senescent state and restore anti‑inflammatory function. Using the small peptide KQS‑1, they epigenetically up‑regulated FOXP3 and...
A historic snow drought combined with an early‑season heat wave has left the Western United States with dramatically reduced snowpack, prompting aggressive water‑use restrictions in Colorado cities such as Denver and Erie. Officials aim to cut municipal consumption by up...
A pooled analysis of 128 systematic reviews covering 310 randomized trials and 15,812 participants examined the effectiveness of kinesio taping for musculoskeletal disorders. The data suggest KT‑tape may provide immediate to short‑term pain relief and functional improvement, but the evidence...
Researchers identified damaging variants in innate immunity genes, especially those governing natural killer (NK) cell activation, as strong modifiers of breast cancer onset in women carrying the BRCA1 185delAG mutation. An analysis of 321 Ashkenazi Jewish carriers showed that these...
University of Queensland researchers applied spatial multi‑omics to 27 neuroblastoma samples, creating high‑resolution maps that reveal a GPX4‑driven shield protecting tumor cells from ferroptosis and surrounding immune cells acting as "bodyguards." The study, published in Genome Medicine, identifies GPX4 as...
In this episode of Business Game Changers, host Sarah Westall and Dr. Diane Kayser discuss the rapidly evolving peptide market, focusing on the upcoming weight‑loss peptide retatrutide (also called Reditrutide). They explain how big‑pharma is moving to control peptide supplements,...
Researchers at Holbæk University Hospital measured pancreatic fat in 283 obese children and adolescents using magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The study, presented at the European Congress on Obesity, found that higher pancreatic‑fat levels were associated with elevated BMI, waist‑to‑height ratio, diastolic...
Researchers at UC San Diego discovered that the inflammatory protein TYK2 acts as a metastasis suppressor in breast cancer by sensing extracellular matrix stiffness. On soft matrices, TYK2 remains on the cell membrane and blocks invasion, while stiff environments cause...
A recent preclinical study identified BIRC5 and MCL‑1 as co‑drivers of survival in mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) and demonstrated that simultaneous inhibition with YM155 and S63845 produces strong synergistic killing of cancer cells. The combination was effective across both treatment‑naïve...
A multicenter study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association introduced a machine‑learning model that predicts five‑year heart‑failure risk in chronic kidney disease patients with higher accuracy than existing tools. Using routine clinical data, the XGBoost algorithm achieved...
Deep‑sea mining is being promoted as a source of critical minerals for the clean‑energy transition, but more than 40 countries and several U.S. states have called for a moratorium due to severe environmental and cultural risks. Indigenous leaders such as...
Per‑ and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a class of roughly 9,000 man‑made chemicals, have been detected in 97% of Americans and are linked to immune disruption, developmental issues, fertility problems, liver damage, and various cancers. These "forever chemicals" persist for more...
A retrospective cohort of 118,740 Israeli adults found that serum IgE levels below 25 IU/mL were associated with almost double the hazard of developing chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) over a seven‑year follow‑up. The multivariable Cox model adjusted for age, sex, obesity,...
Vegetarian diets and cancer risk: pooled analysis of 1.8 million women and men in nine prospective studies on three continents "Compared to meat eaters, poultry eaters had lower risk of prostate cancer (0.93, 0.88–0.98), pescatarians had lower risks of colorectal (0.85,...
NASA claims the Art. 2 reentry will be the fastest crew entry ever at "about 25000 mph" (i.e. somewhere in the range 10.95 to 11.40 km/s). However the Horizons trajectory for Art2 appears to give 11.06 km/s (inertial) while Apollo...
A new longitudinal study of 83 healthy military personnel tracked cardiac biomarkers after two mRNA COVID‑19 vaccine doses. Within two weeks of the second shot, 49% of participants exhibited a rise in NT‑proBNP exceeding 1.5 times their baseline, indicating subclinical...
On the topic of gender differences in various capabilities, did you know that women have substantially stronger smell sensitivity than dudes? https://t.co/PPAoGZv8Vx
The countdown is on! In under a day hopefully the Artemis II crew of 4 will be on their way around the moon. 👨🚀👨🚀👩🚀👨🚀 https://t.co/kwANSZYAmO
Stealth biotech startup R3 Bio, backed by billionaire investors, announced a fundraising round to develop non‑sentient monkey organ‑sack platforms for donor organs. Investigative reporting by MIT Technology Review revealed that the founders are also exploring the far more controversial concept...
Have researchers broken through the “impossible” solar conversion ceiling? #energysky -- via Renew Economy: https://t.co/JLYVABWY2U https://t.co/T1C7TpKgIx
Study finds stroke can make undamaged parts of the brain appear younger as it rewires to aid recovery https://t.co/r39ZMz5AGU
Researchers at the University of Oulu introduced an ultrafast, contrast‑free MRI protocol that captures cerebrospinal fluid movement in just five minutes. The scans reveal that during deep sleep slow vasomotor waves become the primary drivers of fluid flow, overtaking neuronal...
Memory loss with age varies widely and may be influenced not just by the brain but by gut microbes and body–brain signaling pathways that scientists are still working to understand and potentially treat. https://t.co/ybi9Kp1E90
"Understanding the fragility of our planetary home: The legacy of Paul Ehrlich" | Commentary in @BulletinAtomic by myself, @PeterGleick & John P. Holdren: https://t.co/2b61PnCaHM
Entropy, the measure of disorder in thermodynamics, also underpins quantum information theory and emerging quantum computers. At Entropy 2026 in Barcelona, leading scientists will examine how heat, information, and quantum processing intertwine. Dedicated sessions will showcase pioneering researchers presenting the latest...
It's legitimate to point out the carbon emissions of AI data centers. And there is also much unfair distortion and near hysteria. Anti-AI articles and posts get great traction, so the incentives are to bash AI.
Soficabtagene geleucel (WU‑CART‑007), an off‑the‑shelf CRISPR‑engineered CAR‑T therapy, received FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation for relapsed or refractory T‑cell leukemia and lymphoma. In a phase 1/2 trial of 28 patients, the drug achieved a 91% overall response rate and a 73% complete...
The EU‑funded ODISSEE project, launched in 2025 under Horizon Europe, aims to create data‑centric, exabyte‑scale computing solutions for CERN’s LHCb and the SKA Observatory. A diverse consortium—including CERN, SKAO, CNRS, SURF, EPFL, ETH Zurich, SiPearl, Energy Aware Solutions and NextSilicon—spent...
Stanford researcher Shebani Sethi’s metabolic psychiatry framework is drawing unprecedented attention after health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s diet‑cure claim sparked debate, and a landmark Nature Mental Health review consolidates evidence that metabolic dysfunction fuels psychiatric illness. The emerging field...
