Research, Space & Discovery
NASA and IBM have developed an AI model to help sift through the mountains of data the agency has gathered about the moon.
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When bacteria invade the urinary tract, the body has its own arsenal for fighting back. Among those weapons is an unlikely tool: copper. Researchers at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and...
Jonathan I. Shenkman, ForbesMost people spend decades planning for the financial risks of retirement. Almost no one plans for the social ones. Yet the risk that derails the final chapter of...
Researchers found that blocking IL1RAP could disrupt a powerful inflammatory network that helps pancreatic cancer survive treatment. In preclinical experiments, the approach reduced tumor-protecting c...
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Vladimir Hedrih, PsyPostA study involving healthy adults between 45 and 65 years of age with a sedentary lifestyle found that 12 weeks of taking creatine monohydrate supplements increased...
UCLAA new UCLA study has found a connection between how quickly the brain ages and the bacteria and chemical byproducts found in the gut, offering a fresh clue into what drives brain aging...
Harry Collins, iaiArtificial intelligence is getting increasingly good at solving mathematical problems. A few days ago, OpenAI reported that one of its models had solved the Navier-Stokes...
Gina Kolata, New York TimesUntil last Friday, cardiologists thought they were on the verge of a new frontier in treating heart disease.Three companies were conducting large clinical...
Rupendra Brahambhatt, ZMESciFor most of the history of forensic DNA testing, identical twins presented police and courts with a problem that seemed almost impossible to solve....
Fanni Daniella Szakal, QMFor thousands and sometimes millions of years, marine plankton all over the world built their spiral shells in one direction. Then, suddenly, the spirals switched...
Ross Pomeroy, RealClearScienceWagyu beef is unbelievably tasty because deposits of fat are marbled right into the muscle, creating meat that melts in the mouth. It turns out that something...
Joe Schwarcz, Office for Science and Society"Barbie Peptide." Why "Barbie" and why "peptide?" Barbie, the iconic little polyvinyl chloride (PVC) doll with the bronzed skin, svelte waistline...
Robert Lea, Space.comOur star and primary energy source that makes life on this planet possible may also be a cosmic cannibal. That's according to new research that suggests the sun may...
Fiorella Valdesolo, Wall St JournalOn #ShowerTok, a corner of TikTok about body hygiene (the hashtag has more than six billion views), some advocates of proper...
Beth Mole, Ars TechnicaFears that modern electronic devices may harm children are nothing new. Gadgets with screens of any size have long been allegedly melting, rotting, and/or corrupting...
Ramkumar, Au-Yeung, & Ellis, Wall Street JournalRep. Josh Gottheimer was watching his daughter's field hockey game in northern
Edward D. Melillo, ConversationU.S. farmers will produce arecord-breaking harvest of 4.52 billion...
Eric Berger, Ars TechnicaNASA has released a document that provides some initial details about the proposed United States Space Academy, and it's clear that the space agency wants to move...