“Microglia must die to save the brain from this infection,” said researcher Tajie Harris of UVA’s Department of Neuroscience and the interim director of the Center for Brain Immunology and [ … ]
NASA, ULA Launch Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission to Red Planet
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission is on its way to the Red Planet to search for signs of ancient life and collect samples to send back to Earth. Humanity’s [ … ]
Scientists Reveal an Explosive Secret Hidden Beneath Seemingly Calm Volcanoes
An international team of volcanologists working on remote islands in the Galápagos Archipelago has found that volcanoes that reliably produce small basaltic lava eruptions hide chemically diverse magmas in their [ … ]
Dogs May Offer a Cheap and Quick COVID-19 Screening Option
COVID-19 diagnosis is typically achieved using specialized tests. They are not so easily available that even some airports are offering them for free. The problem is that you have to [ … ]
Ford Employed a Robot Dog to Map its Factories
Car factories are very complex structures with different operations taking place in different buildings. They are also huge and evolve rapidly over time. This may cause a bit of a [ … ]
First Results of an Upgraded Experiment Highlight the Value of Lithium for the Creation of Fusion Energy
Lithium, the silvery metal that powers smartphones and helps treat bipolar disorders, could also play a significant role in the worldwide effort to harvest on Earth the safe, clean, and [ … ]
New Clues in Resistance to Mainstay Drug for Patients with Metastatic Prostate Cancer
Enzalutamide is one of the main treatments for patients with metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer — the lethal form of the disease. However, treatment options are limited for those who develop [ … ]
Potential COVID-19 Vaccines Get a Boost from Machine Learning
After what has started to feel like a boundless eternity of wearing masks, bathing in hand sanitizer, and dodging people in the grocery store, many of us have been left [ … ]
Researchers Identify Massive Black Holes that Seemed “hidden” in Dwarf Galaxies
An investigation conducted by two researchers from the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC), a research unit of the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), has been published today in [ … ]