Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and computer scientists has identified vulnerabilities in popular automation apps that can make it easy for an abuser to…
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When Gut Rhythms Over-Sync With the Brain, Mental Strain Rises
Summary: A large-scale study has found that unusually strong coordination between brain activity and the stomach’s slow, rhythmic waves may signal greater mental distress. Using fMRI and electrogastrography on more…
Antitumor mRNA-based vaccines show potential against gastric cancer metastasis
Neoantigen (tumor-specific antigen) mRNA-based vaccines induce progenitor‑exhausted T cells that support anti‑PD‑1 therapy, leading to enhanced antitumor efficacy against gastric cancer, which has metastasized to the peritoneum (i.e., the lining…
Astronomers spot the ‘Eye of Sauron’ in deep space
The “Eye of Sauron”: plasma jet in the blazar PKS 1424+240, threaded by a nearly perfect toroidal magnetic field. High-energy gamma rays and neutrinos are strongly beamed toward Earth, even…
Campaigners urge countries to vote for a strong plastics treaty
Environmental campaigners have called on governments to “stop hiding behind consensus” at the UN plastics treaty talks and instead opt for a vote which they hope would win enough backing…
Next-level pixel-particle analogy uses quantum-inspired math to clarify noisy medical images
A medical image denoising method based on principles of quantum mechanics outperform machine learning, statistical methods, and neural networks. The same approach could aid quantum computing performance at scale. Credit:…
Korean farmers sue state power utility for damages
Six South Korean farmers have announced plans to sue the country’s state-owned utility company, arguing that its burning of fossil fuels has contributed to climate change and damaged their crops.…
Watch Vulcan Centaur rocket launch experimental military satellite on Aug. 12
Rocket Launch: Vulcan USSF-106 – YouTube Watch On United Launch Alliance (ULA) will launch its most powerful Vulcan rocket yet today (Aug. 12), and you can watch the liftoff live.…
US has slashed global vaccine funding – if philanthropy fills the gap, there could be some trade-offs
The U.S. government is relaxing federal vaccine requirements and cutting vaccine research and development funding here at home. Elsewhere, it’s going even further. The Trump administration has stopped funding Gavi,…
