Proteins and Inflammation: Breakthrough Into Leading Cause of Blindness
A team of scientists, including researchers from Queen Mary University of London, has discovered that the most common form of adult blindness is probably caused…
A team of scientists, including researchers from Queen Mary University of London, has discovered that the most common form of adult blindness is probably caused…
The tabletop diagnostic yields results in an hour and can be programmed to detect variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Engineers at MIT and Harvard University…
Frequent, rapid testing for COVID-19 is critical to controlling the spread of outbreaks, especially as new, more transmissible variants emerge. While today’s gold standard COVID-19…
Russia has the largest area of forest on the planet, with more than a fifth of the world’s trees. A new study, led by Russian…
The planet: TOI-1231 b The discovery: A planet some 90 light-years away from Earth is oddly reminiscent of our own Neptune – that is, a…
Scientists no longer have to worry about their bottles of mouse sperm breaking in transit. Researchers in Japan have developed a way to freeze dry…
Professor Joshua Reiss from Queen Mary’s School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science has written for The Conversation on the audio history of the Olympics…
This map shows the temperature of the land surface on August 2, 2021. It is clear to see that surface temperatures in Turkey and Cyprus…
A member of the Perseverance rover’s science team explains why the aerial image offers science advantages over ground-level images. Ask any space explorer, and they’ll…
Currently, much of the thinking around risks posed by volcanoes follows a simple equation: the bigger the likely eruption, the worse it will be for…
Chronic stress is a well-known cause for mental health disorders. New research has moved a step forward in understanding how glucocorticoid hormones (‘stress hormones’) act…
The SEROCOV study also provides evidence that pre-existing antibodies to common cold coronaviruses may be protective. The levels of IgG antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 spike protein…
Nitrogen is vital for all forms of life: It is part of proteins, nucleic acids, and other cell structures. Thus, it was of great importance…
Captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission on July 30, 2021, this image shows smoke billowing from several fires along the southern coast of Turkey. Turkey…
While advances in machine learning over the past decade have made significant impacts in applications such as image classification, natural language processing, and pattern recognition,…
The second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine induces a powerful boost to a part of the immune system that provides broad antiviral protection, according to…
A new study from Queen Mary University of London has demonstrated that immune cells can be stimulated to assemble into special structures within pancreatic cancer….
Long-theorized phenomenon observed in a working reactor could improve reactor safety, according to a new study. For the first time, the long-theorized neutron-clustering effect in…