EU to Streamline Jet Fuel Distribution and Seek Alternatives
The EU will propose measures to “optimize” jet fuel distribution among member states and help source alternative supplies https://t.co/C1WA5BwZUZ
AI-Driven Drug Discovery: Current Landscape and Future Promise
Cool review and perspective on the current state and the future of AI-powered drug discovery https://t.co/AgwqOlt4RU
Intermediate Prrx1 Marks Breast Tumor Cells Driving Metastasis
A distinct cell population within primary breast tumors, defined by intermediate Prrx1 gene expression, possesses the capacity to both invade and proliferate, predisposing these cells to seed future metastases. cancerbiology
30‑m Cryogenic Microwave Link Enables Loophole‑Free Bell Test
Are you curious about the insights we gained when building our 30-m-long cryogenic microwave-frequency quantum link which we used to do a loophole free Bell test with superconducting qubits? This system also serves as a role model for how to...
Browning Waters Boost Pike, Walleye, Harm Trout, Bass
Freshwater browning, driven by increased dissolved carbon, is altering fish communities by favoring species like pike and walleye while reducing populations of trout, bass, and perch in many northern lakes. freshwaterecology
Intense Interval Exercise Boosts Panic Disorder Treatment
Brief intermittent intense exercise as interoceptive exposure for panic disorder: a randomized controlled clinical trial “ These findings support the incorporation of structured exercise-based IE into PD treatment programs…” https://t.co/vUfchaSqzr https://t.co/UH9aMF120R
Swarm Drones Lift Heavy Loads with Precision
#Drone Teamwork Breakthrough: TU Delft Swarm Lifts Heavy Loads with Precision by @spaceandtech_ #EmergingTech #Technology #Innovation https://t.co/hbtJnRIW59
Special Artemis II Episode Released for Patrons
This past week, @inaneenglish, kerbal01, & I poured our hearts into a special episode on the Artemis II mission. It just went out to our patrons on Patreon.com/CosmoQuestX, & I could not be prouder.
Salt Harms Arteries via Immune‑driven Senescence, Not Direct Toxicity
Salt has been blamed as the culprit for damaging your arteries. A new mouse study puts salt-sensitive hypertension in context. Salt doesn't do it directly, it triggers your immune system to do it. 4 weeks on a high-salt diet (8% NaCl) cut...
Trump Cuts Crucial Health Research Funding, Fueling Crisis
This piece in the WaPo summarizes what I've been say. The feds under Trump are choking off research dollars -- particularly for women's health, cancer and mental health. Young researchers are particularly hard hit, steering scientists into other work. It's...
El Niño Forecasts Push NOAA CFSv2
With the latest set of El Niño forecasts, NOAA's CFSv2 model needs to get a larger y-axis scale 😯 https://t.co/8qwDrckPw8 https://t.co/agtkgoigpF
Boosting Mitochondrial NAD+/NADH Extends Life, Eases Alzheimer’s
Extension of Lifespan and Amelioration of Alzheimer's Disease Phenotypes by Genetic Manipulation of Mitochondrial NAD+/NADH Ratio https://t.co/m8K1Tm9sIR https://t.co/SU85G9FsgW
Zombie Immune Cells Linked to Fatty Liver, Inflammation, Aging
UCLA scientists identify zombie immune cells as a driver of fatty liver disease, inflammation and aging https://t.co/28Ql5er4kb https://t.co/IoAD5I6AJr
Nature Exposure Linked to Lower Self-Reported Pain
Toward an understanding of how and why nature exposure is associated with reduced self-reported pain https://t.co/jPONqce8Sd
Combined NMN and CD38 Inhibitor Rejuvenates Aging Muscles
Double-Pronged NAD Preservation: Delaying Cellular Senescence and Initiating Musculoskeletal Regeneration https://t.co/bnkkn0xblj Scheme 1: A novel synergistic drug combination (N + A) consisting of an NAD+ precursor (NMN) and an NAD+ consumption (CD38) inhibitor (API) promotes musculoskeletal regeneration in aging.
Epigenetic Aging Rate Outperforms 13 Biomarkers in Mortality Prediction
Comparing fourteen consensus biomarkers of aging: epigenetic pace of aging as the strongest predictor of mortality in BASE-II https://t.co/q9jmoubgex
Second Stage Boosts Exhaust Velocity, Relighting Is Hard
As everyone knows, the second stage of a rocket launching a payload into space maximizes its exhaust velocity to ensure it has enough "push" to complete both steps of the transfer with limited fuel. Relighting engines in orbit isn't easy....
Stop Pipetting Yourself—Let Us Handle Experiments
Humans weren’t meant to pipette. Time to move on. Happy to run your experiments for you at https://t.co/b8gQiWKIwy https://t.co/skmzANp2Sl
Genome Sequencing Drops From Billions to Kitchen‑table Affordability
Human genome sequencing: 2003: $3,000,000,000 global effort years of research 2026: your kitchen table a few hundred $ Hard not to be excited for the future. https://t.co/0U5bXsHwt6 https://t.co/0U5bXsHwt6
Unexpected Insight Among 11 Lessons From AACR26
11 things I learned at #AACR26 Industry Partnering event – number 7 may well surprise you: https://t.co/T0ePbaIU1K https://t.co/CMh15HfnnG
Wellington Faces Flash Floods, Landslides and Evacuations
New Zealand’s capital, Wellington, was hit by flash flooding after torrential rain inundated the city center, triggering landslides and forcing evacuations. https://t.co/hwc9EqaFcW
US Firms Achieve Ocean Drone Ship Rocket Landings
2 US companies can land massive rockets on drone ships in the middle of the ocean. Blue Origin's New Glenn booster second landing:
Tiny BCI Chip Delivers High‑Bandwidth Wireless Neural Links
Ultra-Compact Brain–Computer Interface Chip Enables High-Bandwidth Wireless Neural Communication by @CUSEAS #MedTech #Healthcare #HealthTech #Tech #Technology https://t.co/ogVf9xUrki
Obesity Linked to One‑Tenth of Infection Deaths Worldwide
Adult obesity and risk of severe infections: a multicohort study with global burden estimates 👉”with evidence suggesting that approximately one in ten infection-related deaths worldwide might be attributable to obesity...” https://t.co/sVIG5ivcV8
Blue Origin's Reuse Win Dwarfed by Satellite Launch Failure
Mission failure overshadows Blue Origin's rocket reuse milestone, with AST SpaceMobile's BlueBird 7 cellular broadband satellite declared a total loss after launching into the wrong orbit. https://t.co/gNckytollw
Graphene Oxide Nanofluids Cool Solar Modules Efficiently
Cooling solar modules with nanofluids based on graphene oxide, Mxene #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/KiDtc1yi4D
AI‑Designed 3D‑Printed Targets Stabilize Fusion Shockwaves
AI-optimized 3D-printed targets with engineered voids can disrupt shockwave patterns, reducing Richtmyer-Meshkov instability and enhancing stability in fusion experiments and other high-impact material applications. materialsengineering
Lung‑resident Memory B Cells Drive Lasting Flu Protection
Long-term flu protection may depend on lung-resident memory B cells, whose persistence is shaped by the strength of B cell receptor signaling, offering new directions for vaccines targeting immune defenses within lung tissue. immunology
Nrf2 Activation Offers Therapeutic Promise, Yet Requires Caution
Nrf2 Activation in Inflammatory Diseases: A Review of Natural and Synthetic Modulators 🔑 Mechanistic insights and preclinical and clinical evidence on the role of Nrf2 in inflammatory diseases and evaluates the therapeutic potential of its key activators. “ The nuclear factor...
China's Daqi‑2 and Qianfan‑07 Meet Planned Orbits
China's Daqi-2 satellite cataloged in a 682 x 689 km x 98.3 deg orbit in 1025 LTDN orbit plane. The Qianfan 07 orbits are now out, showing 800 x 820 km x 89.0 deg deployment orbits as expected.
Consistent Sleep Cuts Mortality Risk More Than Duration
Sleep regularity was a stronger predictor of all-cause mortality than sleep duration 👉 Higher sleep regularity was associated with a 20%–48% lower risk of all-cause mortality. https://t.co/AO6rthJcdU https://t.co/em0u1eKZiA
Periods Don't Always Mean Ovulation: Anovulatory Cycles Explained
A lot of women assume that if they get a period every month, they are ovulating. That is not always true. You can bleed every month without ever releasing an egg. It is called an anovulatory cycle and it is...
New Glenn Misses Orbit, Yet First Stage Lands Perfectly
Today's launch of the New Glenn launcher delivered a communications satellite into a wrong (not clear if recoverable) orbit, but the rocket's 1st stage completed spectacular landing on a vessel in the Atlantic: https://t.co/fEDhJHdU3S
SECO-1 Orbit Estimated Between 116×420 Km And
Best estimate for the SECO-1 orbit given the slow observed decrease in altitude in the webcast is somewhere in the range of 164 x 380 km to 116 x 420km, depending on flight path angle at cutoff which was somewhere...
Insufficient Data, but Webcast Velocity
Unfortunately there's not enough data on Blue's webcast to derive a SECO-1 orbit, but it may have been fine - the velocity on the screen is in the rotating Earth frame and seems reasonable, for those worried it was too...
New Glenn Launch Undershoots Orbit, Data Pending
LAUNCH at 1125 UTC Apr 19 of New Glenn flight 3 with AST SpaceMobile-007 from Canaveral. Second stage underperformance and lower than planned final orbit, but still waiting for Space Force tracking data for details
Breakthroughs Now Cost Jeans, Not Billions
What once took $2B and an army of scientists was just done in a kitchen for the price of a pair of jeans Most people have no idea how fast science is moving
AI-Designed Enzymes Poised to Replace Petrochemicals in Everyday Products
The detergent you use. The fabric on your Gore-Tex jacket. The fragrance in your shampoo. For a century, making these products meant petrochemicals and harsh industrial chemistry. AI protein design is changing the underlying process. @ArzedaCo builds custom enzymes for real...
KRAS Targeting Fuels $30B Valuation for RVMD
The race to catch KRAS, pancreatic cancer’s ‘greasy ball,’ and create the most promising drug in decades Or, how $RVMD is now worth $30B https://t.co/iFilUpezjn via @angRchen #AACR26
USC Compound Halts Alzheimer-Linked Brain Inflammation
As a medical school professor at USC, this one is personal. My colleagues at Keck School of Medicine developed a compound that stops brain inflammation linked to Alzheimer's -- while preserving normal brain function. The target: cPLA2, an enzyme that drives inflammation...
QCTiP2026 Launches in Oxford with Five Quantum Talks
#QCTiP2026 is about to begin in Oxford. Given the rapid progress in the field, this conference on quantum computing theory in practice could hardly be more timely: https://t.co/FCb3yhGhgD was a real pleasure to host #QCTiP2025 in Berlin last year, and...
Default Function Values Can Quietly Corrupt Bioinformatics Analyses
1/ Bioinformaticians: The default value of a function could silently break your analysis. Here’s a real example. Let’s dive in. https://t.co/FqIgiOU47G
Regex Streamlines Bioinformatics ID Cleaning and Merging
🧵Regular expressions can save your bioinformatics analysis. Here’s how to use them to clean up messy IDs and merge datasets. https://t.co/tkYo7lRJCq
New Glenn’s Third Launch Expands Mobile Satellite Access
The third New Glenn launch has been a success, and it's going to mean wider access to mobile satellite communications. https://t.co/ktqDiJAn6B
DASH and Anti‑inflammatory Diets Lower SCD Risk, Boost Cognition
Dietary Patterns and Indicators of Cognitive Function “healthy diets, exemplified by the DASH diet for blood pressure control and diets with lower hyperinsulinemia and inflammation potentials, were associated with a lower SCD risk and better cognitive function” https://t.co/Km7DxqqtJa
Order Set to Speed Psychedelic Drug Research Access
the order will dramatically accelerate access to new medical research and treatments based on psychedelic drugs
BlueBird 7 Separation Unconfirmed, No Update From Blue
BlueBird 7 separation from the New Glenn second stage was scheduled for T+75 minutes, according to the timeline published before launch. But no updates from Blue on payload deployment or the earlier second burn of the upper stage.
Donut‑Shaped Phoenix Capsule Uses Inflatable Heat Shield
Phoenix space capsule: Donut-Shaped Capsule with Inflatable Heat Shield Returns Payloads to Earth by @spaceandtech_ #SpaceTech #AI #Engineering #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/WvjwMbAJaM
Glove Additives Mimic Microplastics, Complicating Detection
“…special substances added to disposable gloves to make them separate from molds more easily, called stearates, are chemically very similar to microplastics, making them almost impossible to distinguish in the lab.”
Rejuvenation Stems From Removing Old Blood, Not Young Transfusions
Munger was right to “avoid crazy” regarding young blood transfusions. While animal data is compelling, evidence shows rejuvenation (in mice) comes mostly from removing old blood components to dilute age-elevated factors. 🩸