Berlín, Dec 12, 2024.- On 4 December 2024, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) signed an agreement that will see ESA provide ground station support to the missions in ISRO’s Gaganyaan human spaceflight programme. Scope of the support Gaganyaan is India’s first human spaceflightContinuar Leyendo
From 2014 to 2024, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been studying the outer planets under a program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) to obtain long-time baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in order to understand their atmospheric dynamics and evolution. Hubble is the only telescope thatContinuar Leyendo
An interdisciplinary study from the University of Bern reveals that gut bacteria play a crucial role in converting arsenobetaine into toxic arsenic compounds. Results show that arsenobetaine, commonly found in seafood and previously considered harmless, is partly transformed into toxic arsenic compounds by the action of gut bacteria in theContinuar Leyendo
A team of astronomers has found that Venus has never been habitable, despite decades of speculation that our closest planetary neighbour was once much more like Earth than it is today. Cambrigde, Dec 07, 2024.- The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, studied the chemical composition of the Venusian atmosphereContinuar Leyendo
Non-native animals are a threat to biodiversity, yet many are themselves threatened with extinction in their areas of origin Vienna, Dec 07, 2024.- Non-native species introduced by humans are among the main causes of global species decline – they were partly responsible for 60 percent of the species that haveContinuar Leyendo
Sebastián Fuenzalida, estudiante del Doctorado en Ciencias Físicas, fue el único chileno en participar de la prestigiosa Escuela Europea de Física de Partículas 2024, realizada en Escocia. Valparaíso, 03 de Diciembre de 2024.- Tras un exigente proceso de selección, Sebastián Fuenzalida, estudiante del Doctorado en Ciencias Físicas de la UniversidadContinuar Leyendo
Disruption of the microbial community favours pathogens in the gut In a groundbreaking new study, conducted within the framework of the FWF-funded Cluster of Excellence «Microbiomes drive Planetary Health», scientists from the University of Vienna, in collaboration with the University of Southampton, Aalborg University and Boston University, have revealed thatContinuar Leyendo
Myocarditis is driven by a different immune response than the anti-tumor one, suggesting that the serious complication could one day be managed without halting cancer therapy. By Leah Eisenstadt Cambrigde, Nov 12, 2024.- Some patients being treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors, a type of cancer immunotherapy, develop a dangerous formContinuar Leyendo
Tucson, Nov 07, 2024.- In the 1997 movie «Contact,» adapted from Carl Sagan’s 1985 novel, scientist Ellie Arroway, played by Jodi Foster, takes a space-alien-built wormhole ride to the star Vega. She emerges inside a snowstorm of debris encircling the star – but no obvious planets are visible. According toContinuar Leyendo
Stare deeply at these galaxies. They appear as if blood is pumping through the top of a flesh-free face. The long, ghastly ‘stare’ of their searing eye-like cores shines out into the supreme cosmic darkness. París, November 01, 2024.- These galaxies have only grazed one another so far, with theContinuar Leyendo
