Scientists Develop New Gene Therapy Strategy to Delay Aging and Extend Lifespan
Cellular senescence, a state of permanent growth arrest, has emerged as a hallmark and fundamental driver of organismal aging. It is regulated by both genetic…
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Chinese Astronomers Discover 591 High Velocity Stars – 43 of Them Can Even Escape From the Galaxy
A research team, led by astronomers from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), has discovered 591 high velocity stars from the Large…
Genomes Offer New Insights Into Fascinating Fig-Wasp Symbiotic System
Banyan trees are fig trees that begin their life as an epiphyte. The most noticeable feature of banyan Ficus species is their extraordinary aerial roots,…
Magnetic Spray Transforms Inanimate Objects Into Tiny Robots
Millirobots that can adapt to unstructured environments, operate in confined spaces, and interact with a diverse range of objects would be desirable for exploration and…
Dome A in Antarctica Is the Best Site for Optical Astronomical Observation on Earth
A research team led by Prof. SHANG Zhaohui from National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) has proved that Dome A in…
Five-Eyed 520-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Arthropod Origin
The Arthropods have been among the most successful animals on Earth since the Cambrian Period, about 520 million years ago. They are the most familiar…
Evolutionary Origin of Flattened “Snowman” Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth
The small Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth, encountered by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on January 1, 2019, is so far the most distant and most…
Under-Regulated Pet Trade Leaves Thousands of Wildlife Species Vulnerable
Keeping reptiles is fashionable, but what are the consequences for wild reptiles? More reptiles are kept as pets than you might expect. In 2008, the…
Insight-HXMT Discovers Closest High-Speed Relativistic Jet to Black Hole
Insight-HXMT, China’s first space X-ray astronomical satellite, has discovered a low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) above 200 kiloelectron volts (keV) in a black hole binary, making…
Sexual Intercourse of Ostracods Revealed Through 100-Million-Year-Old Amber Discovery
Small bivalved crustacean ostracods are the most abundant fossil arthropods since the Ordovician and play an important role in paleoenvironmental reconstruction and evolutionary biology. The…
Global Maps of the Solar Corona Magnetic Field Created for the First Time
The Sun is a magnetized star. Its magnetic field is essentially three dimensional and it occupies all layers of the solar atmosphere. However, routine measurements…
Zooming In on Dark Matter Haloes
Most matter in the Universe is dark and completely different in nature from the matter that makes up stars, planets, and people. Galaxies form and…
Ultrathin Flat Lenses for High Resolution Imaging Using Monolayer Transition Metal
Lenses are one of the most commonly used optical components in daily life, including eyeglasses, microscopic objectives, magnifying glass, and camera lenses. Conventional lenses are…
Composition Revealed of Weird Glistening “Gel-Like” Substance Discovered on Far Side of the Moon
The unusual dark greenish and glistening “gel-like” substance in a crater on the far side of the moon has attracted widespread interest following its discovery…
True Color of 99-Million-Year-Old Insects Revealed by Amber Fossils
Nature is full of colors, from the radiant shine of a peacock’s feathers or the bright warning coloration of toxic frogs to the pearl-white camouflage…
World’s Largest Telescope Detects Extragalactic Neutral Hydrogen Emission for the First Time
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) is the largest telescope with the highest sensitivity in the world. Extragalactic neutral hydrogen detection is one of…
“Amazing!” – Black Hole’s Heart Still Beating
The first confirmed heartbeat of a supermassive black hole is still going strong more than ten years after first being observed. X-ray satellite observations spotted…
Efficient Generation of Relativistic Near-Single-Cycle Mid-Infrared Pulses in Plasmas
The invention of chirped pulse amplification technique by Strickland and Mourou in 1985 has boosted the peak power of ultrashort laser pulses to an unprecedented…