Mars – Tharsis
Tharsis Montes is the largest volcanic region on Mars. It is approximately 2,400 miles across, 6 miles high, and contains 12 large shield volcanoes. The summits of Tharsis Montes are about the same…
New way to treat high blood pressure and aortic aneurysms.
Oxidative stress can occur when our cells are exposed over time to harmful molecules called “reactive oxygen species.” These reactive oxygen species can damage cells and are present in critical disease states, such…
Pancreatic cancer: AI identifies promising combinations
Pancreatic cancer is known for its deadly silence: it grows hidden, resists most treatments, and is usually discovered too late. But a new international study published in Nature Communications offers hope by using…
Academic papers are being contaminated by AI.
Artificial intelligence is quietly slipping into the world of scientific publishing. More and more academic papers show clear signs of having been written — or at least polished — using tools like ChatGPT….
With AI, researchers can now identify the smallest crystals
One longstanding problem has sidelined life-saving drugs, stalled next-generation batteries, and kept archaeologists from identifying the origins of ancient artifacts. For more than 100 years, scientists have used a method called crystallography to…
Donor hearts travel farther with machine perfusion.
In places like Australia, where metropolitan areas are separated by an entire continent, donor hearts used to go unused simply because transplant teams couldn’t get the organ to a recipient in time. “If…
Discovery of burial of a woman from the elite 5,000 years ago in Peru.
An impressive discovery in Peru revealed the remains of an elite woman buried with unique burial objects — among them, artifacts made from the beak of a toucan and macaw feathers. According to…
Mystery of dissonance in the “ringing” of black holes explained
A scientist from Tokyo Metropolitan University has solved the longstanding problem of a “dissonance” in gravitational waves emitted by a black hole. Using high precision computing and a new theoretical physics framework, it…
Star Nest in Circinus West
A celestial shadow known as the Circinus West molecular cloud creeps across this image captured from Chile with the 570-megapixel Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera — one of the most powerful digital…
Baffling chronic pain eases after doses of gut microbes
What Rina Green calls her “living hell” began with an innocuous backache. By late 2022, two years later, pain flooded her entire body daily and could be so intense that she couldn’t get out of…