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NASA’s Lunar Flashlight Ready to Search for Water Ice on the Moon
Set for launch in November, Lunar Flashlight is a small satellite mission that will u…
Powerful New Drug Could Cause COVID-19 To Turn on Itself
The Scripps Research team demonstrated that a variant of an existing FDA-approved tre…
Where Do Fears Come From? How Can New Insights Improve Treatment?
A new study leverages math in improving commonly used exposure therapy to overcome fe…
Better Than Opiates: Pain Relief Without Side Effects and Addiction
Better than opiates: Researchers use adrenaline receptors for highly-effective pain r…
Shocking Study Finds Nose Picking Could Increase Risk for Alzheimer’s and Dementia
In new research, Griffith University scientists have demonstrated that a bacteria can…
Stem Cells Reveal: How Neurons From PTSD Patients React to Stress
First induced pluripotent stem cell model of PTSD offers insights into underlying gen…
Race Against Time To Find Ancient Indigenous Carvings on Australian Boab Trees
For Indigenous Australians, carvings in boab trees are as significant as rock art. No…
Scientists Discover Why Late-Night Eating Leads to Diabetes and Weight Gain
Health benefits come from eating during the daytime, demonstrating a potential link t…
Scientists Warn of a Rare Third-Year La Nina – Risk of Intense Cold Surges in Eurasia
El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is an irregular periodic variation in winds and s…
Study suggests hundreds of new mammal species are hiding in plain sight
A new study suggests that hundreds of so-far unidentified species of mammals are hidin…
300-year-old system revised to name bacteria
One of the main benefits of assigning universally accepted distinct names is that it h…
New Compound Discovered That Destroys the MRSA Superbug
A compound that both inhibits the MRSA superbug and renders it more vulnerable to ant…
Antarctic Volcano: A Mountain of Terror?
Mount Terror might sound like a place to avoid. But this Antarctic volcano is not as …
NASA Psyche Asteroid Mission Will Go Forward
The mission team continues to complete testing of the spacecraft’s flight software in…
Princeton Physicists Discover Exotic Quantum State at Room Temperature
For the first time, physicists have observed novel quantum effects in a topological i…
Dreams Do Come True: High School NASA Intern Works with Artificial Intelligence
Reach for the stars because you might just become one! Drina Shah has a fascination w…
LVM3-M3 mission: ISRO conducts test of its heaviest rocket's engine | Read here
The CE-20 engine is assigned for the LVM3-M3 mission identified for launching the next…
Tree Rings Offer Insight Into Mysterious, Devastating Radiation Storms
New light has been shed on a mysterious, unpredictable, and potentially devastating k…
Monkeypox risk higher in younger kids: Study
Petra Zimmermann, MD, Ph.D. of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and Nigel Curt…
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How Much Halloween Candy Would Kill You? [Video]
Halloween is almost here, which means costumes, scary movies, and lots of candy. In t…
Startingly Common – Nearly One in 10 in the US Reports Having Depression
Adolescents and young adults have a particularly high prevalence of the condition. Ac…
Natural Gas for Heating and Cooking Contains Elevated Levels of Carcinogens and Hazardous Air Pollutants
Leaks from gas stoves can create potentially hazardous indoor benzene concentrations.…
Scientists Astonished by Strange Material That Can Be Made Like Plastic but Conducts Like Metal
‘Like conductive Play-Doh’: breakthrough could point way to a new class of materials …
Broad Implications – Harvard Scientists Have Discovered the First Ever Sea Level Fingerprint
The work validates almost a century of sea level science. Sea levels experience a biz…
Are You Getting Enough Sleep? Five Hours or Less Linked to Higher Risk of Multiple Diseases & Death
Getting less than five hours of sleep in mid-to-late life could be linked to an incre…
Why doctors are studying new drugs to treat women’s midlife mood swings
Many women feel anxious or depressed during perimenopause. Researchers are looking at …
Scientists Successfully Reverse Premature Aging
A new, promising target for treating premature aging. Werner Syndrome and Hutchinson…
Why the FDA banned Juul e-cigarettes
Agency cited technical issues with vaping company’s application, not risk of underage …
Chaotic Crust Contains Clues to Mars’ Watery Past in Search for Signs of Past Life on the Red Planet
ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft takes us over the Holden Basin – part of a region that …
Stunning NASA Image Shows Ganymede Casting a Massive Shadow Across Jupiter
NASA’s Juno spacecraft saw Ganymede cast a large, dark spot on Jupiter during its 40t…
Eating Late Changes Your Fat Tissue and Decreases Calories Burned
New research provides experimental evidence that late eating reduces energy expenditu…
NASA Intern Found Hope in the Moon
When Rose Ferreira first saw an image of a field of galaxies and galaxy clusters from…
New Findings Rewrite the Evolutionary Story of “Fish to Human”
The discovery of a fossil “treasure hoard” illuminates the rise of fishes. Researche…
UN weather agency: Greenhouse gases reach new record in 2021
World Meteorological Organisation, the weather agency of the UN has informed that thre…
Tylenol Use During Pregnancy Has Been Linked To Sleep and Behavior Problems
A recent study finds that prenatal acetaminophen usage is associated with sleep and a…
WHO releases first-ever list of fungal infection, flags global health threat
The WHO FPPL list is divided into three categories: critical, high and medium priority…
MIT’s Powerful Reconfigurable Antenna Enables Advanced Satellite Communications Testing
Reconfigurable antenna can transmit and receive signals over multiple radio-frequency…
Derivative of “Love Hormone” Oxytocin Reverses Cognitive Impairment in Alzheimer’s Disease
Scientists reveal how an intranasally delivered oxytocin derivative could be used to …
Scientists Successfully Track Down a “Mystery Gene”
The gene matures the skeleton of the cell. “I’m a professional pin-in-a-haystack seek…
Horrifying – New Study Indicates That Popular Sugar Substitutes Worsen Your Memory
Using laboratory models, scientists discovered that ingesting FDA-approved levels of …
Study Finds New Health Benefits of Walnuts
Eating walnuts may reinforce favorable health effects such as improved diet quality a…
Laying Geological Groundwork for Life on Earth – Early Plate Tectonics, Flipping of Geomagnetic Poles
Research led by Harvard University offers new, sharper proof of early plate tectonics…
Russian Cargo Mission Nears Launch During Human Research on Space Station
The next cargo mission to resupply the Expedition 68 crew is prepared to launch to th…
Russian Cargo Craft Departs Space Station, Burns Up in Destructive Re-Entry in the Earth’s Atmosphere
At 6:46 p.m. EDT on Sunday, October 23, 2022, the uncrewed Roscosmos Progress 80 spac…
What is Covid-19 brain fog? What causes it?
Brain fog is not a medical diagnosis, but rather the description patients tend to use …
Naturally Occurring Metabolite Identified That Converts “Bad” Fat to “Good” Fat
Scripps Research and Calibr scientists collaborated to discover potential therapeutic…
Stanford Researchers Make a Cancer Breakthrough – Clever Synthesis of Rare Cancer-Fighting Compound
A new and improved way to produce an acclaimed cancer-fighting compound. Researchers …
Cannabis Users Experience More Pain After Surgery
Adults who use cannabis experience more pain after surgery compared to people who don…
Most Extreme “Wobbling Black Hole” Ever Detected – Exotic Phenomenon Predicted by Einstein’s Theory of Gravity
Gravitational waves identify what could be a rare one-in-1000 event. Astronomers at C…
Black Death Shaped Evolution, Setting the Course for How Our Immune Systems Respond to Disease Today
The Black Death shaped the evolution of immunity genes, setting the course for how we…
Chest pain, deafness, shivering among top symptoms that could be Omicron BF.7
There's still a lot to be learned, but here's what we know so far about the sy…
Livers can stay functional for over 100 years: Study
The analysis found that of the 253,406 livers transplanted between 1990-2022, 25 liver…
Scientists Discover Why Some People Are Mosquito Magnets
It’s can be impossible to hide from a female mosquito—she will hunt down any member o…
Antarctica’s Ice Shelves Could Be Melting Even Faster Than We Thought
How coastal ocean currents increase Antarctic ice shelf melt. A new model suggests th…
High-Tech Quantum Sensors: Navigating When GPS Goes Dark
High-tech quantum sensors could guide vehicles without satellites, if they can handle…
439-Million-Year-Old Fossil Teeth Overturn Long-Held Views About Evolution
Rare Chinese fossil teeth have changed scientists’ beliefs about the evolution of ver…
ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 mission may get launch in June 2023: Chairman Dr Somnath
‘Chandrayaan-3 is almost ready. Final integration and testing are almost complete. Sti…
ISRO places 36 satellites on rocket LVM3-M2's maiden commercial mission
All 36 satellites were injected into the orbits around 75 minutes after the rocket bla…
Genome Sequencing and Genetic Engineering Could Help Protect Ocean Ecosystems
Advanced Genomic Approaches Hold Promise for Marine Conservation Although genetic and…
Physicists Baffled by Proton Structure Anomaly
Precision measurement of how a proton’s structure deforms in an electric field has re…
Unlocking the Mystery: How Mosquitoes Smell Humans
Between a variety of mosquito-borne diseases, most notably malaria, nearly one millio…
“Marshmallow” World Discovered: Giant Fluffy Planet Orbiting a Cool Red Dwarf Star
Kitt Peak National Observatory telescope helps determines that Jupiter-like Planet is…
NASA’s X-57 Maxwell All-Electric Aircraft Powers Up
Another crucial milestone toward its first flight has been achieved by NASA’s X-57 Ma…
Earth Observation Just Got a Major Upgrade With Sentinel-1C
Sentinel-1C, launched via the Vega-C rocket, enhances Europe’s capacity fo…
Stars Are Everywhere, So Why Is the Sky Still Dark?
Why is space so dark despite all of the stars in the universe? The questio…
Earth Observation Just Got a Major Upgrade With Sentinel-1C
Sentinel-1C, launched via the Vega-C rocket, enhances Europe’s capacity fo…