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Phys.org / NASA to 'pause' orbital lunar space station project

NASA's chief on Tuesday said the US space agency "intends to pause" its Gateway project that would have created a space station in orbit around the moon, instead shifting focus toward "building a lunar base."

13 hours ago
Tech Xplore / Dating app algorithms: What's love got to do with it?

Love is mysterious. You feel it in your chest, your knees, your soul. Love will put you on budget airplanes across the world, leave you hiding from your own phone after a sent text message or perhaps standing in the rain ...

3 hours ago
Phys.org / Overlooked microbial network may drive methane production in the seafloor

Deep below the surface in coastal sediments, microorganisms use conductive particles as tiny natural "wires" to exchange electrons. This enables them to convert organic carbon into methane in a way not previously documented. ...

5 hours ago
Phys.org / CERN hails delicate test on transporting antimatter as a scientific success

Scientists in Geneva took some antiprotons out for a spin—a very delicate one—in a truck, in a never-tried-before test drive that has been deemed a success.

13 hours ago
Phys.org / Magnetic microbots steer quantum sensors inside living cells

Cells are squishy and soft. Tiny nanometer-sized particles such as quantum sensors cannot move freely inside them due to viscous drag, which makes sensing challenging. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) ...

11 hours ago
Phys.org / Fish gill-inspired panels reveal path to efficient thermal mixing

A fascination with fish gills has led researchers at Cornell to develop a bio-inspired approach to mixing heat and molecules in fluids—findings that could inform future biomedical devices, heat exchangers and soft robotics.

11 hours ago
Phys.org / Snow flies produce bursts of heat and proteins to avoid freezing, new study finds

In a new study, Northwestern University scientists explored how snow flies—small, wingless insects that crawl across snow to find mates and lay eggs—survive in freezing cold temperatures. They discovered this snow-dwelling ...

12 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Air-sampling tunnel reveals major person-to-person differences in release of infectious virus

A study published in the journal Cell provides the clearest evidence to date that people infected with influenza actively expel infectious virus into the air and that the amount released varies enormously between individuals.

11 hours ago
Phys.org / Preparing for the next pandemic: Scientists discover a new class of influenza antivirals

Researchers from Leiden University, University of York, University of Barcelona/IQTCUB/ICREA and The Francis Crick Institute report a new class of experimental compounds that powerfully block influenza viruses. The findings ...

13 hours ago
Phys.org / A tiny protein tweak, finally traceable: How light-based tagging targets pyroglutamate

Amino acids are like Lego blocks—they can be linked together to form complex structures called proteins. Unlike Legos, however, there are only 20 different types of amino acids available to build a protein. Proteins depend ...

5 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Well-fed penguins live longer but age faster—much like modern humans

In public discourse, the increasing lifespan in Western countries is often linked to longer life in good health. However, studying human aging in modern societies is complex because outcomes are shaped by numerous social, ...

12 hours ago
Tech Xplore / Study finds AI privacy leaks hinge on a few high-impact neural network weights

Researchers have discovered that some of the elements of AI neural networks that contribute to data-privacy vulnerabilities are also key to the performance of those models. The researchers used this new information to develop ...

11 hours ago