[ad_1] A super-Earth that could explain the universe’s mysterious lack of certain exoplanets has been found by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the planet-measuring ESPRESSO instrument on the Very Large Telescope in Chile. “It’s a small addition to the already long list of known planets, but such discoveries are essential to improve our…
[ad_1] Generative artificial intelligence has entered a new frontier of fundamental biology: helping scientists to better understand proteins, the workhorses of living cells. Scientists have developed two new AI tools to decipher proteins often missed by existing detection methods, researchers report March 31 in Nature Machine Intelligence. Uncovering these unknown proteins in all types of…
[ad_1] Floating about in microgravity might seem like a blissful reprieve for the human body’s weight-bearing skeleton, but when astronauts spend months in space, their bone density takes a serious hit that they may never fully recover from. A study of mice on board the International Space Station gives NASA scientists a better clue as…
[ad_1] Once again, Mars has presented us with an example of something it seems to have in abundance: extremely peculiar and baffling rocks. As the Perseverance rover trundled about Broom Point, on the lower slopes of Witch Hazel Hill on the rim of Jezero Crater, it came across a rock that looks all bubbly and…
[ad_1] Cases of the fungal infection Candida auris are rising rapidly and coming from more sources too, a new US study reveals. C. auris was first reported in the US in 2016 and is considered an “urgent antimicrobial resistance threat” in hospitals, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Focusing on a…
[ad_1] Alzheimer’s disease is usually associated with old age. But around 5%-10% of all Alzheimer’s cases occur in people under the age of 65. Early-onset Alzheimer’s disease progresses more rapidly and often strikes people in the prime of their lives. Treatment options remain limited. But new data from a recent clinical trial suggests that a…
[ad_1] A new archaeological discovery at Kach Kouch in Morocco challenges the long-held belief that the Maghreb (north-west Africa) was an empty land before the arrival of the Phoenicians from the Middle East in around 800 BCE. It reveals a much richer and more complex history than previously thought. Everything found at the site indicates…
[ad_1] A quantum machine has used entangled qubits to generate a number certified as truly random for the first time, demonstrating a handy function that’s physically beyond even the most powerful supercomputer. Researchers from the US and UK repurposed existing quantum supremacy experiments on Quantinuum’s 56-qubit computer to roll God’s dice. The result was a…
[ad_1] The developmental progress from daredevil teen to risk-averse senior is more complex than we thought, according to a new study that identified changing relationships between neural structures related to risk avoidance at different life stages. Neuroscientists from the University of California, Los Angeles, led an investigation into a critical part of the brain that…
[ad_1] The hardware that will fly a historic private astronaut mission has made it to the launch pad. On Saturday (March 29), SpaceX posted photos on X of the Fram2 mission’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule rolling out to Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The milestone keeps Fram2…