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On the trail of cancer metabolism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVjGOj3IQEY Researchers at the University of Cologne are looking for ways to disrupt nutrient processing in cancer cells so they can no longer grow. Source: Alexander...
Willy Lewis, M.D. -
Psychology & Sociology

Animal emotions raise ethical questions

What does an octopus feel? © Freder/ iStock Squid can solve complex puzzles, bees have different levels of exploration based on previous experience, and...
Emmaline Middleton -
Astronomy

Weird exo weather in sight

Artist's impression of hot Jupiter WASP-121 b. It is a hot Jupiter class planet. It always presents the same side to its...
Ashton Edwards -
Health & Medicine

Microplastics found in the bloodstream of the Dutch: should you be concerned?

Plastic is everywhere: in our environment and even in our own bodies. But can it hurt? It has been buzzing for a while:...
Dr. Hayden Miller -
Biology

Bogs can clean mining effluents

Researchers in a rewetted bog. © IGB Open pit mines and other mining activities often leave contaminated mine water behind. But peatlands could...
Elijah Burt -
Earth & Climate

Another massive bleaching of coral in Great Barrier Reef

“Recent history is repeating itself.” It just seems like it can't stop in the Great Barrier Reef. Once again, aerial photos reveal that...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

Fertile Dolphin Male Friendships

Male dolphins form complex friendship systems with each other. Image: www.sharkbaydolphins.org and © Simon Allen Friendly factor in reproductive success: In the case of...
Ashton Edwards -
Astronomy

You’ve never seen the sun like this: Solar Orbiter takes incredibly detailed images of our parent star

The images, which are ten times better than what a 4K TV can display, were shot from 75 million kilometers away; exactly...
Charlie Elliott -
History & Archaeology

After living on Greenland for centuries, the Vikings left the continent rather abruptly – and scientists now think they know why

Not the Little Ice Age, but increasing drought would have made life unsustainable. In the year 985 the Vikings, led by the Norwegian explorer...
Charlie Elliott -
Health & Medicine

‘Artificial sweeteners may increase the risk of cancer’

The end of the ongoing debate about the safety of sweeteners does not seem near. Many foods and drinks contain artificial sweeteners. As...
Dr. Hayden Miller -
History & Archaeology

Did drought drive the Vikings out of Greenland?

View of abandoned settlement structures of the former European inhabitants on Greenland. © RUBEN RAMOS/iStock For almost 500 years, the Vikings had defied the...
Alan Cannon -
Health & Medicine

Therapy salad developed for astronauts

This lettuce produces a substance that can combat bone loss in space. © Kevin Yates Tasty greens instead of injections – to protect themselves...
Willy Lewis, M.D. -
History & Archaeology

Huayna Picchu: the ruined city we all know, but may have been calling by the wrong name for a century

Now we know the famous Inca city under the name 'Machu Picchu'. But that may be based on a misunderstanding. Today, the famed...
Charlie Elliott -
Biology

Hailstones in the wind tunnel

For their experiments in the wind tunnel, the scientists produced ice formations (left) and artificial hailstone models (right) in the laboratory. ©: Alexander...
Elijah Burt -
Astronomy

The ‘fat disc’ of our Milky Way turns out to be much older than thought

This appears to have formed about 13 billion years ago – only 0.8 billion years after the Big Bang. Our Milky Way has a...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

Great tit in the city can withstand extreme heat better than its congener in the forest

Young great tits living in the forest grow less rapidly and die more often due to extremely hot days. Urban great tits...
Charlie Elliott -
Health & Medicine

Locked-in patient communicates via brain-computer interface

Two such microelectrode arrays were implanted on the patient's motor cortex. © Wyss Center People with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) gradually lose the ability...
Willy Lewis, M.D. -
Earth & Climate

‘Impossible’ temperatures in Antarctica make scientists extremely nervous

For a while it was up to 45 degrees Celsius warmer than normal in some places on the Antarctic ice sheet! Temperatures were...
Charlie Elliott -
History & Archaeology

Bones suggest the largest carnivorous dinosaur was a good swimmer

Clarity at last: Spinosaurus was probably excellent at hunting ill-fated prey underwater. the terrifying spinosaurus is the largest carnivorous dinosaur ever discovered – it...
Charlie Elliott -
Astronomy

Thirty years ago we knew a handful of planets, now there are – officially! – over 5000!

The crown on the exciting journey of discovery through the universe. Not so long ago, we lived in a universe with only a small...
Charlie Elliott -
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