New immunotherapy platform has increased potential to target cancer cells

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Stanford University have revealed the molecular structure of TRACeR-I, a protein platform for reprogramming immune responses. A better…

Roadmap for the incoming Trump administration: Friend or foe of US agriculture?

President-elect Trump has promised his second administration will move aggressively to deliver relief from regulatory burdens in a number of areas. Though not widely noted in the current media coverage,…

Liver fibrosis and eye disease detection

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New research from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden highlights the possibility of screening people with type 2 diabetes for liver damage at the same time as they…

Bringing the power of tabletop precision lasers for quantum science to the chip scale

Andrei Isichenko holds the ultra-high-quality ring resonator (left), which can help turn the “coarse” light from a commercially available Fabry-Perot laser diode (right) into a low linewidth laser. Credit: Sonia…

‘AI-at-scale’ method accelerates atomistic simulations for scientists

Credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Quantum calculations of molecular systems often require extraordinary amounts of computing power; these calculations are typically performed on the world’s largest supercomputers to better understand…

Turning 3D printing’s biggest flaw into its smartest feature

Credit: Johns Hopkins University Civil and systems engineers at Johns Hopkins University have turned a longstanding problem with 3D printers into a multifunctional feature: The team developed a new printing…

India practices pulling its Gaganyaan astronaut capsule out of the sea (photos)

India continues to perfect hardware and recovery procedures for its Gaganyaan human spaceflight program. Last week, the nation recovered a mock Gaganyaan crew module onto a ship’s well deck, which…

NASA honors Algerian parks with Martian namesakes

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain NASA’s mapping of Mars now bears the names of three iconic Algerian national parks, Algerian physicist Noureddine Melikechi, a member of the US space agency’s largest…

Is Intel the Tech Industry Equivalent of the 2024 NY Giants?

As a lifelong New York Giants fan, it’s been hard to suffer through the 2024 season, culminating last weekend in the Giants’ most recent debacle, losing to the below-average New…

Do Animals Really Understand Fairness?

Summary: New research challenges the idea that animals share humans’ sense of fairness, suggesting their reactions to unequal rewards stem from unmet expectations rather than inequity aversion. In the largest…