On Monday (April 8), the sky over a swathe of North America will briefly darken as the moon covers the sun completely during a total solar eclipse. For a maximum…
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Screening with a PSA test has a small impact on prostate cancer deaths but leads to overdiagnosis, finds study
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The largest study to date investigating a single invitation to a PSA blood test to screen for prostate cancer has found it had a small impact…
ESA and NASA team up to study solar wind
Both Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe have very eccentric orbits, meaning that they fly in near to the Sun to get a close-up look, and then fly far out…
NASA’s Europa Clipper Survives and Thrives in ‘Outer Space’ on Earth
In less than six months, NASA is set to launch Europa Clipper on a 1.6-billion-mile (2.6-billion-kilometer) voyage to Jupiter’s ocean moon Europa. From the wild vibrations of the rocket ride to the…
How Interconnectedness Affects Elderly Resilience
Summary: A new study illuminated the consequences of a tighter interconnection between different domains of functional capacity in the elderly, pointing towards a reduced resilience in the system. This study…
Powering Brain Repair: Mitochondria Key to Neurogenesis
Summary: Researchers made a groundbreaking discovery about the maturation process of adult-born neurons in the brain, highlighting the critical role of mitochondrial fusion in these cells. Their study shows that…
First cardiac bioimplants for treatment of myocardial infarction using umbilical cord stem cells
PeriCord at the lab. Credit: IGTP The results of a pioneering study support the safety of the bioimplants called PeriCord, made from stem cells of the umbilical cord and pericardium…
Microsoft says China using AI to sow division in US
Beijing has “doubled down” on targets and increased sophistication of its influence operations, Microsoft threat analysis center general manager Clint Watts said in a report. China is ramping up use…
Simulating magnetization in a Heisenberg quantum spin chain
Credit: Google LLC The rapid progress of quantum simulators is now enabling them to study problems that before have been limited to the domain of theoretical physics and numerical simulation.…
