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High‑altitude hypoxia curbs blood‑sugar spikes in mice
A mouse study found that low‑oxygen (hypoxic) conditions cause red blood cells to absorb far more glucose and convert it into a molecule that eases oxygen release, acting as a glucose sink. Mice exposed to 8% oxygen showed markedly smaller blood‑sugar spikes after glucose injections, and the effect persisted after they returned to normal air.
NASA is poised to launch Artemis II on Wednesday evening, with an 80% probability of favorable weather after resolving fuel‑leak issues. The four‑person crew will fly the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft on a nine‑day lunar flyby, the first crewed Moon mission in more than five decades.
A team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has engineered low‑cost, removable fabric panels that act like a sweater for buildings, reducing heating energy use by as much as 23%. The solution targets renters and owners seeking quick, affordable upgrades...
The University of Cape Town's Neuroscience Institute announced a new interdisciplinary program that will study mindfulness practices and their impact on brain health. The initiative brings together neuroscientists, psychologists, and meditation experts to generate data-driven insights, positioning South Africa at...
Wild shot from an airplane window during today’s Artemis II launch... that massive white trail climbing high while the plane cruises along. First humans heading around the Moon since the 1970s, and someone caught it mid-flight. Pretty cool reminder of...
QNA Technology, a Wrocław‑based nanotech company, has signed a six‑month exclusive agreement with U.S. firm Reborn Materials to develop a UV ink containing quantum‑dot nanomaterials for authenticating disposable food packaging. The partnership aims to complete testing by 2026 and lay...
Today's Artemis II launch is super bittersweet. For NASA to have a super ambitious human space program they need to cut back their other programs or get more funding. NASA is not getting more funding. We discuss the new Artemis plan in...
Artemis II crew includes first woman, Black astronaut and Canadian ever flown to moon https://t.co/1vqNCYsJyp
A new Cell Reports study reveals that moral hypocrisy stems from reduced activity and connectivity in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC). Researchers used fMRI while participants chose to lie for profit or judged others' honesty, finding inconsistent individuals showed mismatched...
NASA launches four astronauts on world's first crewed lunar mission in half a century https://t.co/Vex2kJzSLV
Thrilling to watch our compatriots leave this Earth on the way to the Moon. Beware space weather our spacefaring friends.
A new multicenter retrospective study of over 100 U.S. health‑care organizations links pediatric adenotonsillectomy performed for infectious indications to higher rates of adult chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS). Children who underwent adenoidectomy alone showed a 55% increased hazard of CRSsNP, while combined...
The Molecular Psychiatry study leveraged functional genomics to pinpoint 249 non‑coding SNPs that alter transcription‑factor binding across 99 schizophrenia risk loci. By integrating ChIP‑Seq, position‑weight‑matrix data and brain eQTL resources, the authors linked 207 of these variants to gene‑expression changes...
Scientists discovered that dendritic cells lose their anti‑tumor potency because their mitochondria become damaged inside the tumor microenvironment. In mouse melanoma models, injecting dendritic cells with robust mitochondria dramatically slowed tumor growth. The work, published in Science, highlights mitochondrial health...
Researchers have experimentally achieved coherent toggle switching of magnetic vortex helicity in nanoscale disks within a few hundred picoseconds. The transition is triggered by a single femtosecond laser pulse combined with an out‑of‑plane magnetic field, leveraging photothermal demagnetization and subsequent...
A new chemistry reported in Nature enables modular, iterative construction of C_sp³–C_sp³ bonds while precisely controlling the three‑dimensional arrangement of attached atoms. The approach leverages interchangeable building blocks to assemble 3D small‑molecule scaffolds, a bond type that is pervasive in...
Traditional animal‑based drug discovery suffers a 90 % failure rate, prompting regulators and scientists to adopt human‑centric new approach methodologies (NAMs). Recent policy shifts—including the FDA Modernization Act 2.0 that removes mandatory animal testing and the NIH’s 2025 Organoid Development Center—create...
Two independent studies published in Science used deep‑learning models to scan thousands of bacterial genomes, uncovering a massive pool of previously unknown antiviral proteins. The analyses estimate that about 1.5% of bacterial genes encode immunity functions—three times higher than earlier...
Researchers used fMRI and a modified card‑guessing task to examine state and trait impulsivity in 87 college students at risk for internet gaming disorder (IGD). State impulsivity was captured as loss‑chasing behavior, which intensified with consecutive losses, while trait impulsivity...
🚀🌕 🇺🇸 NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration has successfully launched a rocket with 4 astronauts back up to the Moon. Archive of the livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBMIzNo?si=7taPgLngqlrhwFBi Godspeed to the humans hurtling into space Bearing “straight into the moonrise” Until they splash...
An exceptionally well-preserved 28–34 million-year-old butterfly fossil from France provides the earliest definitive evidence for the emperor butterfly lineage, offering a crucial anchor point for understanding butterfly evolution. paleontology
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched forensic DNA reference material RM 8043, featuring degraded DNA and mixtures from up to three individuals across eight vials. The new material mirrors the complex, low‑quantity samples that modern crime labs...
Individuals with long COVID face a significantly higher risk of developing cardiovascular conditions, including cardiac arrhythmias and coronary artery disease, even if they were not hospitalized during their initial infection. longcovid
Excelsior Sciences, backed by Deerfield, unveiled an automated platform for small‑molecule discovery that leverages modular "smart blocs" and generative AI. The system integrates iterative carbon‑carbon bond formation, robotic synthesis, and in‑vitro assays into a continuous make‑test‑learn loop. By translating chemical...
A joint team from the University of Osaka and Fixstars Corporation used 1,024 NVIDIA H100 GPUs to run the chemqulacs‑gpu simulator, breaking the 40‑qubit barrier with a 42‑spin‑orbital water calculation and a 41‑qubit iron‑sulfur benchmark. The effort introduced a new...
NASA sending astronauts back too the moon AND a widely unpopular war at the same time. Time is a flat circle
NASA’s Artemis II launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 1, sending a four‑person crew on a ten‑day lunar flyby—the first human mission beyond low‑Earth orbit in more than five decades. Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialists Christina Koch and...
My mom was a little kid when Apollo launched, and she saw it live on a tiny black and white TV in her village. Now she gets to see us return to the Moon with Artemis in glorious 4K. Wish...
"We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and...
Japanese mycologists discovered that the electrical communication of ectomycorrhizal mushrooms changes dramatically when exposed to water or urine. By attaching electrodes to 37 mushrooms in an oak forest, they recorded real‑time signal fluctuations over 3.5 days. Adding water to a...
This is happening T-9 and counting down. It is a gooooooo nasa @youtube @youtubecreators #nasa #goingtothemoom #space #stem #makinghistory
AI for biology will have bigger near term wins. The ability for AI to learn from experiments and predict human biology will have very broad impacts in predicting targets, clinical trials, and precision medicine. Tackling the biggest challenge in Pharma (80%...
Some stars leave nothing behind. Pair-instability supernovae predict that the most massive stars explode so completely that no black hole remains. For years, we didn’t have evidence. Now, gravitational wave data shows a gap in black hole masses — exactly where those explosions...
If you need it, here's the link to NASA's livestream of the launch. 👇 https://www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBMIzNo?si=I5u3hgJLKVNLcv4I
They've moved the post-launch briefing up. Now at 8:00 pm ET, in just about 5 minutes. On NASA's YouTube channel: https://t.co/3y6Tm3VF4k
Cool: "In Point Reyes, a National Park Service scientist has made an incredibly rare find." Michael Reichmuth "photographed a group of newly hatched California giant salamanders in the wild for the first time." https://t.co/wV0cKOGs5U via @SFGate
The ICPS has completed a planned perigee raise burn. Another burn in about an hour will raise the apogee.
NASA Apollo 8 spacecraft became the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon. The crew captured this iconic “Earthrise” photo that shows Earth rising over the horizon of the Moon, and is thought to have sparked the environmental movement. (12/24/1968) https://t.co/SEhC4SfiRR
A new review of the GLP-1 receptor drugs @NEJM https://t.co/PK03jApZWB surprisingly, the word inflammation only appears once, in this diagram https://t.co/1PeBakBAQb
MECO: It's 2026 and four humans are beginning their journey to the Moon for the first time in 54 years. https://t.co/PBzuDhungQ
Epic launch of SLS and Orion. So much better in the daytime to observe. Congratulations to NASA and everyone involved. Y’all made us proud.
The SLS rocket lifts off with the Orion spacecraft and a crew of four on a mission to the vicinity of the Moon for the first time since the Apollo-17 expedition in 1972: https://t.co/biWISWldtE https://t.co/3pTosP7Qwk
I believe in physicist David Deutsch's vision for our purpose (in "The Beginning of Infinity"). We are here to learn and explore. So excited for Artemis II and humans starting the next journey. https://t.co/7iErXCltdt
As we get ready for the Artemis II launch, I can't help thinking back about the Apollo program. Here's a chart showing all the Saturn V launches, including the Apollo 8 launch that most closely resembles this mission. Link below....
From the final countdown poll minutes before NASA's Artemis II crew launches to the moon: "Artemis 2 crew is go for launch. full send."
This quantum device absorbs energy efficiently, accelerates charging with scale, and stores power temporarily, though it's still limited in practical output. https://t.co/V8MS45eL8p
NASA has not set a new T-0 but the Artemis II mission will not launch at 6:24 pm ET today. “A little more work” to do.
More people are watching the live broadcast of the Artemis II launch from Europe/Africa than from the US. https://t.co/ji5YAWcT5Y . . https://t.co/t2oGgtcoaK
Title and header via the @cwru press release: New research reveals dangers of ‘anti-aging’ supplements in cancer protection Vitamin B3 could be making chemotherapy less effective in pancreatic cancer patients https://t.co/vIfcvuiS6P Discussion + thoughtful debate welcome👇👨⚕️ https://t.co/aHewoWeIle
NASA: "Engineers investigated a sensor on the launch abort system’s attitude control motor controller battery that showed a higher temperature than would be expected. It is believed to be an instrumentation issue and will not affect today’s launch."
3 new trial results for genome editing of sickle cell disease and β-thalassemia @NEJM https://t.co/qGGdjgKqP5 (with summary Table below) https://t.co/RdiM3urCKJ https://t.co/W15cPAfMoS https://t.co/F3PHKuktPx https://t.co/t6Z35S8L7h
