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Phys.org / Terraforming Mars isn't a climate problem—it's an industrial nightmare

Even when the idea of terraforming Mars was originally put forward, the idea was daunting. Changing the environment of an entire planet is not something to do easily. Over the following decades, plenty of scientists and engineers ...

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Medical Xpress / High-intensity interval training boosts muscle mitochondria, study shows

Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark investigated how eight weeks of high-intensity interval training affect the structure of mitochondria—the parts of muscle cells that produce energy. The study shows that ...

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Phys.org / Microbes hitchhiking on marine snow could limit how deep carbon sinks

In some parts of the deep ocean, it can look like it's snowing. This "marine snow" is the dust and detritus that organisms slough off as they die and decompose. Marine snow can fall several kilometers to the deepest parts ...

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Medical Xpress / Elevated heart failure risk identified in adults with prediabetes, hypertension and subclinical heart injury or stress

A new study from researchers led by Johns Hopkins Medicine reports substantial new evidence that elevated blood biomarkers of subclinical heart injury or stress—heart muscle damage without symptoms of a heart attack—are ...

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Phys.org / Baltic herring fishing rules may need an update after new genetic mapping

Herring from different parts of the Baltic Sea belong to distinct populations genetically adapted to local differences in salinity and temperature. However, these populations can also mix with each other, according to a new ...

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Phys.org / Why simulating an entire cell cycle took years, multiple GPUs and six days per run

By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell—from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell division—scientists have opened a new frontier of computer vision into the essential processes ...

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Medical Xpress / Alternative breast cancer treatment tied to about four times higher mortality, nationwide analysis finds

The alternative medicine industry is expanding rapidly, fueled in large part by the surge of health-related content on social media. This growing trend has become an increasing concern for oncology practitioners and patients, ...

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Medical Xpress / Cancer drug reduces early Alzheimer's-like brain hyperconnectivity in lab tests

Neuroscientists at King's College London have pinpointed a mechanism behind the increased neural connectivity observed in the very early stages of Alzheimer's disease. Published in Translational Psychiatry, the study also ...

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Phys.org / Ocean carbon removal looks promising, but nutrient cycling could curb long-term gains

There is growing interest in the scientific community and private sector in biological approaches to marine carbon dioxide removal—strategies designed to enhance the ocean's natural ability to absorb carbon from the atmosphere. ...

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Phys.org / Recent pandemic viruses jumped to humans without prior adaptation, study finds

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal viruses become capable of sparking human epidemics and pandemics. Using a phylogenetic, genome-wide analysis ...

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Medical Xpress / Q&A: How a tiny cellular portal could open vast possibilities for medicine

Inside each of your cells lies a nucleus, its master command center. Protected inside each nucleus are your chromosomes, containing all the genetic instructions for making proteins. To keep the body operating smoothly, proteins, ...

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Phys.org / Antarctic sea ice rebounds in 2026, nearing average after four years

Antarctic sea ice coverage has likely rebounded this year, coming closer to its annual summer average after four years of extreme lows, US scientists said Monday.

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