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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.
Recent cognitive‑science research reveals that inner speech—often assumed universal—is absent in a subset of people, a condition termed anendophasia. Studies such as Nedergaard and Lupyan (2024) show measurable behavioral differences for those without an internal voice. The field faces methodological hurdles because most data rely on self‑report, prompting a shift toward behavioral tasks and neuroimaging. Emerging tools like virtual‑reality and drawing interfaces aim to externalize these private experiences, expanding our map of human cognition.
Toronto‑based SFL Missions Inc. has secured a NASA contract to build eight 150‑kilogram “Node” satellites for the HelioSwarm science mission. The Nodes will ride on a larger Hub spacecraft before deploying into coordinated formations in high‑Earth orbit. Built on SFL’s...
Researchers have conducted the largest genome‑wide association study (GWAS) to date using objective sleep metrics captured by accelerometer‑based wearables. By harmonizing millions of device‑derived sleep measurements with genotyping data, they identified dozens of novel genetic loci tied to duration, efficiency,...
If you’re having problems conceptualizing why going to the moon is such a big deal, here’s your reminder that you can fit every planet in the solar system in between the Earth and the moon. The Artemis II astronauts are...
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past Uranus’s largest moon, Titania, in 1986, capturing detailed images of its rugged terrain. The moon’s surface features a mix of deep canyons, cliffs, and impact craters, suggesting a violent geological past possibly driven by water‑ice...
Researchers at Charité have created a hair‑based diagnostic that reads the activity of 17 clock‑related genes to pinpoint an individual’s chronotype. In a study of over 4,000 volunteers, the test showed that lifestyle factors—especially employment—shift internal clocks more than genetics...
Reid Wiseman, a 50‑year‑old former naval fighter pilot, will command NASA’s Artemis II mission, the agency’s first crewed flight to the Moon since 1972. Selected as an astronaut in 2009, Wiseman has logged extensive flight time, combat deployments, and two spacewalks...
NASA launched Artemis II, its first crewed flight under the Artemis program, from Kennedy Space Center at 1 p.m. today. The four‑person crew—Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen—will spend roughly ten days circling the Moon. The mission’s...
Dehydration can shrink your brain by over 0.5%, and may be a reason you get a headache. Hydrate to maintain light yellow urine. Also hydrate before an MRI, as dehydration-related small decreases in brain volume can confound MRI-based assessment...
Researchers at Icahn School of Medicine discovered that the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) acts as a molecular brake preventing axon regeneration after nerve injury. Genetic deletion or pharmacological inhibition of AHR in mouse models redirected neurons from a stress‑survival mode...
A recent study shows that a 45‑minute afternoon nap can fully restore the brain’s capacity to learn new information. The nap length allows participants to cycle through both slow‑wave and REM sleep, which together reactivate hippocampal networks and clear metabolic...
The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) experiment, led by SLAC, has successfully cooled its detector array to its target operational temperature of roughly 15 milliKelvin. This milestone enables the cryogenic germanium detectors to function at the sensitivity required for low‑mass...
We are sending people to the moon for the first time since 1972 TODAY. Don’t let this historic moment pass you by!
Stanford’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has unveiled a new real‑time alert system that monitors rapid changes in the upper atmosphere and space‑weather conditions. The platform integrates data from ground‑based telescopes, satellite sensors, and machine‑learning models to issue warnings within seconds...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) has begun issuing roughly 800,000 alerts each night to astronomers worldwide. An automated paging system routes these alerts in real time, flagging transient phenomena such as supernovae, asteroid...
Researchers at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source used ultra‑bright X‑ray pulses to capture the sharpest images yet of a laser‑driven fusion plasma that went unstable. The snapshots, taken with sub‑micron spatial resolution and 10‑femtosecond timing, revealed filamentary structures and turbulence...
As we enter a new month, I'm leaving thermodynamic computing and going back to quantum computing. The fact that thermo systems will reach 100M+ pbits in scale within a year is too overwhelming to think about, I miss the coziness of...
Researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology combined large language models with machine‑learning to scan thousands of materials‑science papers, building concept graphs that map how key terms co‑occur over time. The analysis spotlights emerging interdisciplinary links—such as perovskite materials and...
The Linac Coherent Light Source II (LCLS‑II) at SLAC has begun delivering femtosecond X‑ray pulses that enable scientists to film atomic‑scale motions in real time. Using a newly installed high‑speed detector array, researchers captured molecular vibrations and electron dynamics previously...
Researchers at Chalmers University unveiled a compact nanofluidic chip holder that merges heating, cooling, electrical actuation, and real‑time optical spectroscopy into a single platform. The device accommodates 10 mm silicon chips with up to 12 fluidic connections and can maintain temperatures...
Catherine and James Galbraith at Oregon Health & Science University identified a previously unknown intracellular fluid‑flow system—dubbed “cellular winds”—that actively pushes proteins toward a cell’s leading edge. Published in Nature Communications, the finding challenges diffusion‑based textbook models and offers a...
Researchers at Tohoku University and City College of New York unveiled a nanotechnology‑based creatinine biosensor that reads concentrations from 1 to 300 mg/dL in about 35 seconds. The device uses a platinum‑nanoparticle polymer composite tuned near the percolation threshold, eliminating the...
Researchers at the Global Brain Health Institute reported that a year of heavy resistance training lowered the biological age of seniors' brains, as measured by advanced brain‑clock models. The randomized trial of 309 adults aged 62‑70 suggests weight lifting can...
Researchers at Technion have, for the first time, directly measured the temporal length of individual bright squeezed vacuum (BSV) pulses, a quantum light state with zero average electric field but massive fluctuations. Using a novel interferometric method, they reconstructed each...
A tiny mud turtle, now named the Vallarta mud turtle, was formally described in 2018 and is estimated to number only a few hundred individuals in the swamps of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Within days of the scientific announcement, poachers descended...
LMU’s Nano‑Institute has been awarded a €2.45 million (about $2.7 million) European Innovation Council Transition Grant for its iNSyT‑ONE microscope platform. The three‑year funding will drive technology maturation, industrial validation and market‑entry plans, positioning the university as a potential nanotech spin‑out hub.
HCW Biologics Inc. filed an appeal to Nasdaq over a minimum bid‑price compliance notice and announced that Phase 1 results for its lead immunotherapy HCW9302 are slated for the first half of 2026. The appeal follows a 5.56% drop in the...
Researchers at the University of Delaware and Waters have created an automated text‑mining pipeline that extracts relationships between cell‑culture conditions and protein glycosylation with 88% accuracy. The extracted data are normalized and stored in a Bioprocess Knowledge Graph, enabling a...
Researchers have demonstrated that the peptide‑based surfactant Peptonic ih‑T1010 performs on par with the industry‑standard poloxamer 188 in CHO and HEK293 fed‑batch cultures for monoclonal antibodies and AAV vectors. The new surfactant dramatically reduces foam formation, allowing manufacturers to skip...
Canada’s Natural Resources department has earmarked roughly $21 million USD for 12 clean‑energy projects, including more than $11.7 million USD directed to three Prairie‑based initiatives. Carbon Alpha in Calgary will receive about $7.3 million USD to develop seismic‑survey technology for carbon‑capture measurement in...
This study on visceral fat loss blew my mind... It found that sustained visceral fat reduction over years was linked to preserved brain volume and cognitive function in middle age. They tracked people for up to 16 years, and those who lost...
The effect of photobiomodulation therapy on fatigue and behavioural status in patients with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis https://t.co/AJx5dvqHyw
Emerging platforms are converging on a universal influenza vaccine, aiming to replace strain‑specific shots that require yearly reformulation. Companies such as Versatope are leveraging engineered bacterial outer‑membrane vesicles to deliver precise antigens, while NIH’s FluMos‑v2 expands hemagglutinin coverage to six...
Australian science agency trials AI robots for solar farms #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/1cum7O4u2V
Longevity 2.0: Your next doctor won't prescribe pills—they'll prescribe gene therapies, epigenetic reprogramming, and personalized longevity protocols. Medicine is shifting from "treat symptoms" to "reverse aging at the cellular level."
Amgen and China‑based Zai Lab have announced a Phase 1b clinical study that combines Amgen’s T‑cell engager Imdelltra with Zai Lab’s experimental antibody‑drug conjugate zocilurtatug pelitecan, targeting the DLL3 protein in aggressive neuroendocrine cancers. The trial will evaluate safety and early...
I don't wanna say but I told you guys Touching receipts -> BPA enters your bloodstream High BPA levels in adolescents -> 50% reduction in Testosterone levels
Immunosenescence and Allergy: Molecular and Cellular Links Between Inflammaging, Neuro-Immune Aging, and Response to Biologic Therapies https://t.co/DMVxerI64T https://t.co/TUPGK6SqUK
Routine genomic testing with Agendia’s MammaPrint and BluePrint can narrow the long‑standing survival gap between Black and white women with early‑stage, hormone‑receptor‑positive breast cancer. In a study of more than 1,000 matched patients, Black women were twice as likely to...
Speaking at the Federation Council, Roskosmos chief also confirmed that the post-ISS station would be assembled at ISS out of (New) Node, Science & Power and Airlock modules (as I illustrated back in 2021 ;) Context: https://t.co/wVxTkUEbNa https://t.co/zOHPUfG7hC
If you're looking for a reason to get psyched about the Artemis II launch today, check this out: https://t.co/qlqzQNJzby https://t.co/hbJQThOk2Q
The United States now operates a mixed network of government‑run and privately‑licensed launch sites, with twelve commercial spaceports complementing four federal facilities. Vandenberg Space Force Base tops the list with over 700 launches since 1959, while Cape Canaveral Air Force...
The flimsy case for evolving dark energy There's been a lot of talk about evolving dark energy, and how DESI data demands it. But the case for this remains somewhat weak, while the true underlying puzzles remain unsolved. https://t.co/Xh1dgGu3kI
According to Roskosmos chief, the "first firing of the methane-oxygen engine (presumably the RD-0177M demonstrator) took place just last week" (which would make it between March 23 and 29). Context: https://t.co/RwOb1eWwT3 https://t.co/lZc1VCXbeJ
Research psychologist Galen Buckwalter, paralyzed since age 16, has six brain implants that translate his motor‑cortex activity into musical tones. The implants, each with 64 channels, provide 384 data streams that are decoded into pitch, allowing him to play a...
People are going to the Moon (well, almost) again tonight. Saying it five times in a row, and each time feels a little better.
Another feature adding to my terminal plasmid editor is a transcriptome browser. Helps you quickly build blast databases from a heap of transcripts in a single fasta file. Gonna add HMM/Pfam detection and Pfam search. I really love this current...
Researchers at the National University of Singapore have unveiled a skeletal‑editing method that replaces the oxygen atom in five‑membered saturated cyclic ethers with nitrogen, sulfur, carbon or selenium. The protocol uses triphenylphosphine and N‑bromosuccinimide to generate a dibromo intermediate, which...
In addition to the livestream, NASA is also posting live Artemis II updates here: https://t.co/9gcpALfGtC
Science is transcendent -- true to nature in another galaxy on other side of the observable Universe. Humanity could use some of that transcendence here on Earth...by leaving Earth to go to the Moon. "58 Years After ‘Earthrise,’ NASA’s New...
