Washington, Jan 27, 2025.- For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the Andromeda galaxy. Don’t go looking for it — the flickering star is 2.2 million light-years away, and is 1/100,000th the brightness of the faintest star visibleContinuar Leyendo
New Yok, Jn 24, 2025.- Some of the body’s cells stay put for life, while others are free to roam. To move, these migratory cells rely on filopodia—sensitive, finger-like protrusions that reach out from the cell membrane into the local environment. In a healthy cell, this can be a lifesaver:Continuar Leyendo
A study using data from ESA’s Swarm mission suggests that faint magnetic signatures created by Earth’s tides can help us determine magma distribution under the seabed and could even give us insights into long-term trends in global ocean temperatures and salinity. París, Jan 22, 2025.- Swarm is a constellation ofContinuar Leyendo
Following an analysis of bacterial samples from infants with whooping cough, scientists from the National Reference Center (CNR) for Whooping Cough and other Bordetellosis have revealed that the most severe forms of the disease are associated with specific strains expressing a key vaccine antigen. This discovery suggests that the bacteriaContinuar Leyendo
An interdisciplinary research team led by anthropologist Gerhard Weber from the University of Vienna, together with experts from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, has analysed a skull that was found in the ruins of Ephesos (Turkey) in 1929. It was long speculated that it could be the remains of ArsinoëContinuar Leyendo
París, Jan 10, 2025.- On December 24th, AES Andes, a subsidiary of the US power company AES Corporation, submitted a project for a massive industrial complex for environmental impact assessment. This complex threatens the pristine skies above ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the darkest and clearest of anyContinuar Leyendo
Researchers have come up with a new way to identify more infectious variants of viruses or bacteria that start spreading in humans – including those causing flu, COVID, whooping cough and tuberculosis. Cambrigde, Jan 10, 2025.- The new approach uses samples from infected humans to allow real-time monitoring of pathogens circulatingContinuar Leyendo
The fourth Antarctic campaign of the “Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice” project, funded by the European Commission, has achieved a historic milestone for climate science. An international team of scientists with participation of the University of Bern successfully drilled a 2,800- meter-long and over 1.2 million years old ice core,Continuar Leyendo
Ithaca, Dec 18, 2024.- Prostate cancer hijacks the normal prostate’s growth regulation program to release the brakes and grow freely, according to Weill Cornell Medicine researchers. The discovery, published Dec. 13 in Nature Communications, paves the way for new diagnostic tests to guide treatment and could also help drug developersContinuar Leyendo
Cambridge scientists have developed a urine test for early detection of lung cancer. The test, the first of its kind, detects ‘zombie’ cells that could indicate the first signs of the disease. Cambrigde, Dec 13, 2024.- Researchers hope that early detection, through the simple urine test, could enable earlier treatmentContinuar Leyendo
