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Phys.org / 'Now boarding' … 240,000 miles from Earth, at the moon's first airport
The moon's getting its first airport, and it's about to get busy. Within the next two decades, NASA's planned Gateway—humanity's first lunar spaceport—may become a bustling hub for Orion crew capsules, lunar landers, cargo ...
Phys.org / Australia's lizards and snakes disappearing faster than previously thought
Australia's lizards and snakes are facing a far more precarious future than previously understood, with a new review led by Monash University researchers revealing that around 127 species, or just over 13% of Australia's ...
Phys.org / 3D atomic imaging reveals a new pathway to crystal formation
The most common scientific approach for thinking about how condensation, freezing and other phase transitions begin is based in classical nucleation theory, which was developed about a century ago. Thousands of experiments ...
Medical Xpress / 'Teacher cells' coated with tumor fragments train T cells to attack cancer in lab tests
The immune system possesses legions of T cells that, if primed, could hunt down and destroy tumors. Now, a UC San Francisco team has invented a way to do this by combining immune cells grown in the lab with samples from a ...
Phys.org / Disappearing lakes, old photos and AI are helping scientists map Arctic permafrost thaw in near‑real time
Florida gets a lot of attention for its sinkholes, especially when they swallow cars and entire houses. But its sinkhole risk has nothing on Alaska's.
Medical Xpress / 25 years after 9/11, research reveals lasting effects on World Trade Center responders
Twenty-five years after 9/11, FIU researcher Dr. Roberto Lucchini is still working with World Trade Center responders to understand how the toxic exposures and psychological trauma they experienced may affect their health ...
Phys.org / Why ancient grasslands, once plowed, don't grow back the same
When a 10,000-year-old prairie is plowed up to plant corn or a savanna is consumed by a strip mall, these once-grassy expanses, if left to regrow, can eventually look vaguely like they did before. But a growing body of research ...
Medical Xpress / 'Supportive' brain cells may actively drive cognitive decline
Brain cells that produce the protective coating around nerve fibers can become dysfunctional with age and may actively contribute to cognitive decline, according to new research.
Phys.org / Expert pieces together puzzle from fragments of 1,600-year-old Roman text
A Roman law expert at the University of Cincinnati edited and translated a Latin legal text he pieced together from fragments that surprisingly survived in the Egyptian sands for more than 1,600 years. What's less surprising? ...
Phys.org / Reference genome of the Saimaa ringed seal released
Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Oulu have produced the first chromosome-level reference genome for the Saimaa ringed seal. The sequence of every chromosome in the seal's entire genome ...
Tech Xplore / Erasable semiconductor is programmed with light
Researchers at Princeton Engineering have created a semiconductor with unique properties: It is just a few molecules thick and can repeatedly change its properties in response to light. This is a step toward building more ...
Medical Xpress / First evidence of mirror-like activity found in individual human neurons
In the early 1990s, researchers studying nonhuman primates discovered a population of brain cells they called "mirror neurons." These specialized brain cells fired when the animal performed an action and also when the animal ...
