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Medical Xpress / Cannabis derivatives could provide new ovarian cancer treatments

In the future, scientists could use drugs made from cannabis to fight ovarian cancer. A team of scientists testing the effects of two chemical compounds sourced from cannabis on ovarian cancer cells have found that both show ...

5 hours ago in Medications
Phys.org / Long-hypothesized dynamic transition seen in deeply supercooled water for the first time

In a new study published in Nature Physics, researchers have achieved the first experimental observation of a fragile-to-strong transition in deeply supercooled water, resolving a scientific puzzle that has persisted for ...

19 hours ago in Physics
Dialog / Typhoons vacuum microplastics from ocean and deposit them on land, study finds

Tropical storms such as typhoons, hurricanes, and cyclones are Earth's most powerful weather systems. Born over warm oceans, they travel thousands of kilometers to land, traversing waters now polluted with plastics, from ...

17 hours ago in Earth
Phys.org / Hundreds of iceberg earthquakes detected at the crumbling end of Antarctica's 'doomsday glacier'

Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake generated in cold, icy regions. First discovered in the Northern Hemisphere more than 20 years ago, these quakes occur when huge chunks of ice fall from glaciers into the ...

17 hours ago in Earth
Phys.org / How a new algorithm predicts cell fate from just one genetic snapshot

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and KTH have developed a computational method that can reveal how cells change and specialize in the body. The study, which has been published in the journal PNAS, can provide important ...

15 hours ago in Biology
Phys.org / Neutron star P13 shows dramatic X-ray variability linked to rotation velocity

A research team has investigated long-term X-ray variability in the neutron star NGC 7793 P13, an object thought to be driven by supercritical accretion, where an extraordinary amount of gas falls onto the object and emits ...

16 hours ago in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Biologists reveal ancient form of cell adhesion

The cells of all animals—including humans—are characterized by their ability to adhere particularly well to surfaces in their environment. This mechanically stable adhesion enables the development of complex tissues and ...

17 hours ago in Biology
Phys.org / Ultrashort laser pulses catch a snapshot of a 'molecular handshake'

Liquids and solutions are complex environments—think, for example, of sugar dissolving in water, where each sugar molecule becomes surrounded by a restless crowd of water molecules. Inside living cells, the picture is even ...

17 hours ago in Physics
Phys.org / Scientists discover nine new species of butterfly from South America stored at London's Natural History Museum

An international team of scientists have identified nine new species of butterflies using a combination of geographical, morphological and molecular analysis.

17 hours ago in Biology
Dialog / Cracking the mystery of heat flow in few-atoms thin materials

For much of my career, I have been fascinated by the ways in which materials behave when we reduce their dimensions to the nanoscale. Over and over, I've learned that when we shrink a material down to just a few nanometers ...

19 hours ago in Nanotechnology
Medical Xpress / Canadian study finds 1 in 4 children with major traumatic injuries not cared for in pediatric trauma centers

New research shows that one in four children with major traumatic injury do not receive care in a pediatric trauma center, where outcomes are generally better than in adult centers.

4 hours ago in Pediatrics
Tech Xplore / Tech savvy users have most digital concerns, study finds

Digital concerns around privacy, online misinformation, and work-life boundaries are highest among highly educated, Western European millennials, finds a new study from researchers at UCL and the University of British Columbia.

9 hours ago in Consumer & Gadgets