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
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
