Summary: Astrocytes, traditionally non-immune cells within the central nervous system, possess the ability to develop an immune memory, responding more vigorously to subsequent immune challenges. This groundbreaking study reveals that…
Author: ID
Key test drive of Orion on NASA’s Artemis II to aid future missions
Credit: NASA Astronauts will test drive NASA’s Orion spacecraft for the first time during the agency’s Artemis II test flight next year. While many of the spacecraft’s maneuvers like big…
New review on p53 biology and reactivation in blood cancers
A simplified scheme of p53 regulation in cells upon stress and the drugs currently evaluated in clinical trials for p53 reactivation for improved therapy in MDS and AML. Credit: Biomarker…
Cybersecurity attacks have the potential to infiltrate medical devices and cripple health care, expert warns
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The cyberattack on Change Healthcare last month should serve as a wake-up call for the health care industry, which needs to focus on securing its infrastructure,…
Quantum talk with magnetic disks
Researchers at HZDR managed to generate wave-like excitations in a magnetic disk—so-called magnons—to specifically manipulate a atomic-sized qubits in silicon carbide. This could open new possibilities for the transduction of…
AI Matches Humans in Vocal Emotion Detection
Summary: Machine learning (ML) models can accurately identify emotions from brief audio clips, achieving a level of accuracy comparable to humans. By analyzing nonsensical sentences to remove the influence of…
Study clarifies a key question in particle physics about muon’s magnetic moment
The muon storage ring at Fermilab. Credit: Reidar Hahn/Wikimedia Commons Magnetic moment is an intrinsic property of a particle with spin, arising from interaction between the particle and a magnet…
Astronomers discover a rare eclipsing X-ray binary
OGLE IV, Swift UVOT, and Swift XRT light curves for Swift J010902.6-723710. Credit: Gaudin et al, 2024 An international team of astronomers reports the detection of a rare eclipsing Be/X-ray…
American bullfrogs may be threatening a rare frog species in Brazil
American bullfrog DNA has turned up not far from the only known habitat of Pithecopus rusticus — a small, critically endangered tree frog that lives in Brazil. Bullfrogs are native…
