New MIT Cancer Treatment Jump-Starts the Immune System
By combining chemotherapy, tumor injury, and immunotherapy, researchers show that the immune system can be re-engaged to destroy tumors in mice. Immunotherapy is a promising…
By combining chemotherapy, tumor injury, and immunotherapy, researchers show that the immune system can be re-engaged to destroy tumors in mice. Immunotherapy is a promising…
New DNA research shows the world got too wet for the giant animals to survive. For five million years, woolly mammoths roamed the earth until…
Energy from the solar wind interacting with the magnetospheric ‘bubble’ around Earth creates waves of energy that appear to stand still. This new finding, from…
A University of Toronto astronomer’s research suggests the solar system is surrounded by a magnetic tunnel that can be seen in radio waves. Jennifer West, a…
Proteins designed to focus immune attack on HIV-infected cells. Armed with a novel strategy they developed for bolstering the body’s immune response, scientists at Albert…
NASA’s Perseverance rover captures a geologic feature with details that offer clues to the area’s mysterious past. Ask any space explorer, and they’ll have a…
Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a shape-shifting material that can take and hold any…
One of the youngest planets ever found around a distant infant star has been discovered by an international team of scientists led by University of…
A certain type of artificial intelligence agent can learn the cause-and-effect basis of a navigation task during training. Neural networks can learn to solve all…
Results announced by the LHCb experiment at CERN have revealed further hints for phenomena that cannot be explained by our current theory of fundamental physics….
Study finds collisions that stalled oxygen growth on the planet are more common than thought. Between 2.5 and 4 billion years ago, a time known…
The sharpest knives available are made of either steel or ceramic, both of which are man-made materials that must be forged in furnaces under extreme…
C. difficile is usually thought of as a hospital-associated infection. However, new research finds 26% of samples from both healthcare and non-healthcare sites tested positive…
When I wake at 3 am or so, I’m prone to picking on myself. And I know I’m not the only one who does this….
The brain is the most complex organ in the human body. Now, a new study has brought us closer to understanding some of its evolution….
A balanced intake of antioxidants could prevent the development of Alzheimer’s disease. Research has shown that an oxidation-antioxidant imbalance in the blood is an early…
Fossils indicate a communal nesting ground and adults who foraged and took care of the young as a herd, scientists say. To borrow a line…
A drug used to treat agitation in people with dementia is no more effective than a placebo, and might even increase mortality, according to a…