New Method to Boost Supply of Life-Saving Blood Stem Cells
Haematopoietic stem cell scarcity is one of the biggest barriers to the development of new and improved treatments for blood cancers and disorders. Researchers at…
Haematopoietic stem cell scarcity is one of the biggest barriers to the development of new and improved treatments for blood cancers and disorders. Researchers at…
On December 10, 2020 (Hawaiʻi Standard Time), the Subaru Telescope imaged the small asteroid 1998 KY26, the target of Hayabusa2’s extended mission. The positional data…
The bizarre features of this mammal have scientists perplexed as to how it could have evolved; “it bends and even breaks a lot of rules.”…
By some estimates, the amount of solar energy reaching the surface of the earth in one year is greater than the sum of all the…
Fast, ultra-bright photon source brings scalable quantum photonics within reach. Super-fast quantum computers and communication devices could revolutionize countless aspects of our lives — but first,…
President Donald Trump has issued a new Space Policy Directive that will help propel NASA and humanity’s next giant leap – creating a sustainable presence…
A long-term trend of ecological improvement is appearing in the mountains west of Boulder. Researchers from CU Boulder have found that Niwot Ridge—a high alpine…
NASA Astronauts Stephanie Wilson, Jonny Kim, and Randy Bresnik take a look at the Orion spacecraft simulator that recently arrived at the agency’s Johnson Space…
An amateur fossil hunter has unearthed a new type of prehistoric ‘sea dragon’ on the beach of the UK’s Dorset coast. The new 2m-long ichthyosaurus…
Low-Metallicity Globular Star Cluster Challenges Formation Models On the outskirts of the nearby Andromeda Galaxy, researchers have unexpectedly discovered a globular cluster (GC) — a…
The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us over Lapland, the largest and northernmost region of Finland, just in time for Christmas. Located within the Arctic Circle,…
A viable quantum internet — a network in which information stored in qubits is shared over long distances through entanglement — would transform the fields…
The new atomic clock design, which uses entangled atoms, could help scientists detect dark matter and study gravity’s effect on time. Atomic clocks are the…
Development of an integrated sampling/monitoring platform for airborne viruses. Rapid and selective diagnosis of airborne viruses using disposable sampling/monitoring kits. Researchers in South Korea have…
For the first time scientists have provided clear evidence that tropical tree lifespan decreases above a critical temperature threshold. Findings published in the journal PNAS…
A study published in Nature Neuroscience shows how spike protein crosses the blood-brain barrier. More and more evidence is coming out that people with COVID-19…
When Light and Atoms Share a Common Vibe An especially counter-intuitive feature of quantum mechanics is that a single event can exist in a state…
In collaboration with Australian researchers, The Marine Mammal Center has found that the increasing frequency and severity of storm systems drastically decrease the salinity of…