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Medical Xpress / Experimental liver cancer vaccine shows promise for young patients in early trial

An experimental cancer vaccine developed at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and its Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy has shown early promise in a Phase I clinical trial for a rare form of liver cancer ...

Nov 24, 2025 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world, evidence suggests

Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts. Are we born with a pre-configured brain, or do thought patterns only begin to emerge in response to our sensory experiences of the world around us? Now, science ...

Nov 24, 2025 in Neuroscience
Phys.org / Moss spores survive 9 months outside International Space Station

Mosses thrive in the most extreme environments on Earth, from the peaks of the Himalayas to the sands of Death Valley, the Antarctic tundra to the lava fields of active volcanoes. Inspired by moss's resilience, researchers ...

Nov 20, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Tech Xplore / A new route to optimize AI hardware: Homodyne gradient extraction

A team led by the BRAINS Center for Brain-Inspired Computing at the University of Twente has demonstrated a new way to make electronic materials adapt in a manner comparable to machine learning. Their study, published in ...

Nov 24, 2025 in Hardware
Medical Xpress / Two parallel blood formation systems produce different immune and blood cells

It has only recently become known that two parallel systems of blood formation exist in the body, originating from different precursor cells. Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have developed a method ...

Nov 24, 2025 in Medical research
Phys.org / Climate change is now warming the deepest parts of the Arctic Ocean

While it is well known that climate change is heating the world's oceans, it was thought that the deep sea was safe from its effects—until now. Researchers have discovered that a rapidly warming part of the Atlantic is ...

Nov 20, 2025 in Earth
Phys.org / Ancient seafloor lava rubble stores vast amounts of carbon dioxide, researchers discover

Sixty-million-year-old rock samples from deep under the ocean have revealed how huge amounts of carbon dioxide are stored for millennia in piles of lava rubble that accumulate on the seafloor.

Nov 24, 2025 in Earth
Phys.org / Scientists map 3D structure of ZAK protein involved in cellular stress response

In an effort to reveal the inner workings of a protein that serves as a cell's damage detection system, scientists at Johns Hopkins and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU) have published what is believed to be ...

Nov 24, 2025 in Biology
Medical Xpress / A retail approach nudges healthier choices in food relief

A University of Adelaide study, conducted in collaboration with Foodbank SA & NT, has demonstrated that strategies supermarkets commonly use to influence shopper behavior can be successfully adapted for food relief pantries.

Nov 26, 2025 in Health
Phys.org / The Suez Rift—once deemed inactive—is still drifting, study reveals

The tectonic plates under Africa and Asia are slowly drifting apart, as the Gulf of Suez that separates these two land masses continues to widen at a rate of about 0.26–0.55 millimeters per year.

Nov 20, 2025 in Earth
Medical Xpress / Epigenetic changes regulate gene expression, but what regulates epigenetics?

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their epigenetics—meticulously placed chemical tags that influence which genes are expressed in each cell. Mistakes or ...

Nov 23, 2025 in Genetics
Phys.org / How stories of personal experience cut through climate fatigue in ways that global negotiations can't

When Cop30 convened in Belém, deep inside the Amazon, the world's attention turned once again to negotiations, emissions pledges and political maneuvering. The global stage was set against one of Earth's most biodiverse ...

Nov 25, 2025 in Earth