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Blue Origin, the space exploration company founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, is getting ready for a moment of history-to launch its first-ever orbital rocket next week. The long-awaited event represents a critical moment in the evolving commercial space race, with Blue Origin taking a bold step to compete with industry giants like SpaceX. It’s named…
Recent research by biologists at Indiana University Bloomington has uncovered an unexpected and fascinating relationship between RNA molecules present on plant leaves and the microbial communities that inhabit them. This breakthrough may provide new insights into the complex dynamics between plants and the microorganisms that live on their surfaces. The study shows that RNA, while…
In a breakthrough study, scientists have developed a novel nanoparticle-based technique to measure the tiny worms’ bite force. Called Caenorhabditis elegans, this new methodology, even though involving one of the most humble organisms, does have far-reaching implications for cellular mechanics, ranging from human touching to wound healing and carcinogenesis. This work brings together knowledge from…
The unusual structure of blood vessels in the brain is not only for supplying nutrition and oxygen but also maintains the delicacy for its optimal functioning. Recent studies indicate that the abnormal growth of blood vessels, especially in the forms of malformations or unusual formations of the vascular structure of the brain, may act as…
Astronomical discoveries can still amaze humankind, and the recent snapshots of the Antlia Cluster taken by DECam have brought the universe closer to our comprehension. The Antlia Cluster, one of the richest and most studied galactic collections in the southern sky, has now been imaged in extraordinary detail. Using DECam, an instrument designed to map…
A landmark study conducted by researchers from the University of Iowa, in collaboration with Texas Biomedical Research Institute and Boston University, has shed light on how the Ebola virus, or EBOV, eventually reaches the skin surface. This study, published in the journal Nature Communications, researches the role of the skin in the virus’ transmission-a direction…
In a world increasingly bedeviled by antibiotic-resistant infections, a new discovery raises an alarm about the mechanisms that allow bacteria to bypass our best defenses. Researchers have found the important process through which foreign DNA, often carrying antibiotic resistance traits, “sneaks” past bacterial defenses. This breakthrough points out how bacteria can evolve to become resistant…
Detection of microplastics in human tissues is a quite new issue. It has grown over recent years as a big concern for scientists and experts in public health. Though plastics have been known for many years as a big environmental menace, they invade human tissues in a new, probably dangerous, dimension of this global problem….
This study was a notable success in the field of paleontology, where the skull of the subfossil dwarf hippopotamus that lived on Crete was reconstructed. The finding by researchers Nikolaos Gerakakis and Professor Dimitrios Makris not only offers an insight into the importance of the extinct species in scientific terms but also provides a glimpse…
In a breakthrough finding that may rewrite theories on how galaxies form, astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to detect an ultra-massive “grand-design” spiral galaxy cloaked in the far-off universe. Such a galaxy, formally known as Zhúlóng, had gone against the flow of established conventional wisdom about the emergence of large galaxies, let…
