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MIT Built Verticillin A After 50 Years, and the Natural Molecule Was Not the One That Hit Glioma Cells Hardest
January 7, 2026
MIT Built Verticillin A After 50 Years, and the Natural Molecule Was Not the One That Hit Glioma Cells Hardest
MIT and Dana-Farber reported the first total synthesis of verticillin A, isolated in 1970. N-sulfonylated variants, not the natural product, were the most potent against diffuse midline glioma cells in…
Halloween Taurid Fireballs Return This Autumn While the Airburst Question for Comet Encke’s Swarm Waits Until 2032 and 2036
October 31, 2025
Halloween Taurid Fireballs Return This Autumn While the Airburst Question for Comet Encke’s Swarm Waits Until 2032 and 2036
Autumn Taurid fireballs are a sky show this season. Researchers say any higher airburst risk from a Comet Encke resonant swarm would come when Earth passes that stream in 2032…
Perovskite Chips Now Hold a Room-Temperature Supersolid After Lecce Scientists First Forced Polariton Light Into a Crystal That Flows
March 11, 2025
Perovskite Chips Now Hold a Room-Temperature Supersolid After Lecce Scientists First Forced Polariton Light Into a Crystal That Flows
Lecce scientists forced polariton light into a supersolid in 2025, and a perovskite nanograting experiment later showed the same crystal-and-flow phase at room temperature.
Space Force X-37B Flies OTV-8 With a Quantum Compass and Laser Link After the 434-Day Vandenberg Landing
March 8, 2025
Space Force X-37B Flies OTV-8 With a Quantum Compass and Laser Link After the 434-Day Vandenberg Landing
After a 434-day elliptical flight and an aerobraking landing at Vandenberg, the Space Force X-37B went back up as OTV-8 with a quantum inertial sensor and a laser communications test.
Colossal Woolly Mice Grew the Coat, Then the Mammoth Edit List Passed 150 Genes and the Calf Calendar Left 2028
March 4, 2025
Colossal Woolly Mice Grew the Coat, Then the Mammoth Edit List Passed 150 Genes and the Calf Calendar Left 2028
Colossal's woolly mice grew mammoth-like coats. Ben Lamm then moved the calf timeline into the early 2030s after the edit list passed 150 genes.
Dolly the Mastodon Returned to Wayne County’s Prairie Trails Museum Still Made of Bone, Not Stone
August 26, 2024
Dolly the Mastodon Returned to Wayne County’s Prairie Trails Museum Still Made of Bone, Not Stone
The 13,600-year-old mastodon skull excavated in Wayne County in 2024 is back at Prairie Trails Museum in Corydon. The bones were never mineralized, and a ribbon cutting was set for…
IDO1 Cancer Drugs Restarted Astrocyte Glucose In Alzheimer’s Models While Kisunla’s Cleared Plaques Held And England Still Haggles
August 22, 2024
IDO1 Cancer Drugs Restarted Astrocyte Glucose In Alzheimer’s Models While Kisunla’s Cleared Plaques Held And England Still Haggles
Kisunla, approved in July 2024, can be stopped once amyloid plaques clear, and extension data showed most reductions holding for up to three years. IDO1 cancer inhibitors restored astrocyte glucose…
Tomorrow Bio Tests a Warmer Whole-Body Tank in Switzerland While Hundreds of Legally Dead Patients Stay in Liquid Nitrogen
August 20, 2024
Tomorrow Bio Tests a Warmer Whole-Body Tank in Switzerland While Hundreds of Legally Dead Patients Stay in Liquid Nitrogen
Tomorrow.Bio is commissioning a warmer whole-body storage tank in Switzerland. Alcor and the Cryonics Institute still hold hundreds of patients in liquid nitrogen. No human has been revived.
Continent-Sized Blobs Under Africa and the Pacific Are Different Ages, and Theia’s Debris May Still Sit on Earth’s Core
May 8, 2024
Continent-Sized Blobs Under Africa and the Pacific Are Different Ages, and Theia’s Debris May Still Sit on Earth’s Core
Large low-shear-velocity provinces under Africa and the Pacific are not twins. 2025 and 2026 papers split the origin between recycled seafloor, a billion years of stillness, and possible Theia debris.
Cold Beer Tastes More Like Ethanol Because Chain-Like Clusters Take Over Near 41 Degrees
May 1, 2024
Cold Beer Tastes More Like Ethanol Because Chain-Like Clusters Take Over Near 41 Degrees
A Matter study mapped the ethanol-water clusters that make beer taste more alcoholic near 41°F, while warmed baijiu moves the other way. Later spectra say the mixture may not even…