Fluorescence staining of Arlo cells. The image shows the overlay of a staining of cell nuclei (gray) and the tight junction protein 1 (blue) and was taken with a confocal laser scanning microscope. Credit: HIPS/Boese There is a very long process before the approval of a medicine, a new drug or a healing substance. It...
Carol Yepes//Getty Images The human microbiome is threatened, which is not an excellent thing1 for your health or the rest of the world. A new documentary, The Unseen Extinction, highlights how the human microbiome-- also referred to as microorganisms and the bacteria living within the human body, most prevalent in the gut-- is on the verge...
Positions of the 20 SNRs with detected diffuse UV emission (red squares) and of the 5 SNRs with likely, but confused, diffuse emission (blue squares), overlaid on the image of the Andromeda Galaxy in the F148W filter. Credit: Leahy et al, 2023 Utilizing the AstroSat satellite, astronomers from the University of Calgary, Canada, have identified...
Earth's inner core. Credit: Rost-9D/iStock The rotation of the Earth's solid inner core may have recently stopped briefly as well as could be reversing, according to a study released in Nature Geoscience this week. The authors show proof that oscillation in the rotation of the internal core coincides with periodic changes in the Earth's surface...
The characteristics of lunar tidal wave in the plasmapause. Credit: Nature Physics (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-022-01882-8 A worldwide team of space scientists reports that the moon exerts a tidal effect on the plasmasphere. For their paper released in the journal Nature Physics, the group used information from multiple spacecraft over an almost 40-year period to gauge tidal perturbations...
Scientists believe many more dolphins die at sea than wash ashore. Dolphins located on the French coast are haunted by man throughout the year. To protect this species, Brussels counsel concerned with a sustainable agenda warns France´s Administration. On Wednesday, Allain Bougrain-Dubourg, chief of the League for the Protection of Birds (LPO), said that he...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A group of four scientists at Pennsylvania State University analyzed the varying weather conditions in different regions of the world to gain a better understanding of the factors that limit the rate of weathering for different types of rocks. Carbon sequestration The researchers S. L. Brantley, Andrew Shaughnessy, Marina Lebedeva, and Victor Balashov...
Boudinage in brecciated dolostone rocks of the Panamint Range (Wildrose Area, Death Valley National Park). New research shows that periclase is stronger than bridgmanite in the earth's lower mantle, analogous to boudins developing in rigid ("stronger") rocks among less competent ("weaker") rocks. Credit: Jennifer M. Jackson, Caltech As you are reading this, more than 400...
(Dorit Bar-Zakay/Moment/Getty Images) Scientists think that old rock tools found in Brazil are the work of capuchin monkeys, not early human beings, the art and design website Artnet reported, mentioning an academic article. "We are confident that the very early archeological websites from Brazil might not be human-derived but might come from capuchin apes," wrote archaeologist...
An infrared image of Io snapped by Juno in July 2022. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM) The most powerful volcanic eruptions in the Solar System occur not on Earth, however on Io, a sulfurous moon orbiting the planet Jupiter. And currently, researchers from the Planetary Science Institute (PSI) in the United States have noticed a current outburst that's been surprisingly productive,...
