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MIT Built Verticillin A After 50 Years, and the Natural Molecule Was Not the One That Hit Glioma Cells Hardest
Janeiro 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
Outubro 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
Março 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
Março 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
Março 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.
Iowa Students 3D-Scan Dolly, the 13,600-Year-Old Mastodon Skull Pulled From a Wayne County Creek
Agosto 26, 2024
Iowa Students 3D-Scan Dolly, the 13,600-Year-Old Mastodon Skull Pulled From a Wayne County Creek
The University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist dug a 12-day excavation in August 2024 after a fall 2022 find on private land. Radiocarbon dating put the animal at…
Cancer Drugs Targeting IDO1 And Approved Antibody Kisunla Offer Separate Paths For People Facing Early Alzheimer’s Disease
Agosto 22, 2024
Cancer Drugs Targeting IDO1 And Approved Antibody Kisunla Offer Separate Paths For People Facing Early Alzheimer’s Disease
Eli Lilly's Kisunla won FDA approval on July 2, 2024, an EU authorization in September 2025, and a slower-titration label in July 2025 that cut ARIA-E. A 2024 Science paper…
Cryonics Companies Charge About $200,000 to Freeze Dead Bodies in Liquid Nitrogen With No Proven Way to Bring Them Back
Agosto 20, 2024
Cryonics Companies Charge About $200,000 to Freeze Dead Bodies in Liquid Nitrogen With No Proven Way to Bring Them Back
Tomorrow.Bio, Alcor, and the Cryonics Institute store legally dead patients in liquid nitrogen for six-figure fees. No human has been revived. Organ vitrification research is advancing. Whole-body revival is not.
Continent-Sized Blobs Beneath Africa and the Pacific Are Not Twins and May Be a Billion Years Old
Maio 8, 2024
Continent-Sized Blobs Beneath Africa and the Pacific Are Not Twins and May Be a Billion Years Old
Two Large Low-Shear-Velocity Provinces sit about 1,800 miles down under Africa and the Pacific. 2025 papers argue they are chemically unalike, ancient, and tied to recycled seafloor rather than a…
Yes, Your Beer Tastes Better Ice Cold — Scientists Mapped the Ethanol Clusters That Explain Why
Maio 1, 2024
Yes, Your Beer Tastes Better Ice Cold — Scientists Mapped the Ethanol Clusters That Explain Why
A Matter study from the Chinese Academy of Sciences shows ethanol-water clusters at about 41°F make typical beer taste more ethanol-like when it is ice cold.