NASA’s DART Mission Could Help Cancel an Asteroid Apocalypse
Back when Andy Rivkin was in college, he had a few friends in medical school. “I was like, oh man,...
Month: November 2021
Lost Women of Science, Episode 3: The Case of the Missing Portrait
From the COVID vaccine to pulsars to computer programming, women are at the source of many scientific discoveries, inventions and...
COVID Can Cause Strange Eye and Ear Symptoms
Red eyes, ringing ears, sensitivity to light, trouble hearing: although a loss of taste and smell have become well-known sensory...
An Experiment Using Human Stem Cells Ended Up Reversing Diabetes in Mice
A technique capable of converting human stem cells into insulin-producing cells could hold huge promise for future diabetic treatments, if...
Scientists Discover Unknown Plant Species Growing on Australia’s Sacred Uluru
Scientists have made what is being described as a once-in-a-lifetime discovery, finding a new plant species on the giant rock...
Experimental mRNA Vaccine Not Yet Tested in Humans Protects Against Lyme Disease
A new laboratory-stage mRNA vaccine that teaches the immune system to recognize the saliva from tick bites could prevent these...
Toxic Signature of Poisoning in 5,000-Year-Old Bones Is Oldest Evidence of Its Kind
The earliest evidence of mercury poisoning has been found in 5,000-year-old bones of humans buried in Spain and Portugal, according to a...
Antibody Breakthrough in Mice Could Lead to a Vaccine For Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia, impacting roughly 44 million people worldwide.In some nations, those numbers...
Wildfires Are Spurring Wandering Tree Species to Move Faster, Study Finds
Plants and trees choose where to put down their roots based on the surrounding environment, and as the world's climate...
New research models the relationship between carbon impacts and market factors in the oil industry — ScienceDaily
Predicting the behavior of any market is a slippery thing. Energy markets are changing especially quickly, and this is most...
Outcomes for hospitalized COVID-19 patients taking immunosuppressive medications similar to non-immunosuppressed patients, study finds — ScienceDaily
A large, nationwide study of COVID-19 cases led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has...
