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Scientists discovered how to trigger apoptosis in leukemia cells
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a hazardous form of cancer. It mainly affects blood and bone marrow cells and can sometimes spread to other body parts. Novel therapeutic approaches for AML are therefore critically needed. A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, and Inserm, in France, have identified a previously unknown mechanism that…
Scientists discovered fossils of a 93-million-year-old crocodile with a baby dinosaur in stomach
In 2010, scientists at the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum (QLD) and the University of New England discovered the fossils of crocodiles. Now with ANSTO, scientists performed Advanced nuclear and synchrotron imaging on the fossils. Scientists excavated the fossilized bones of the crocodile – Confractosuchus sauroktonos – from a sheep station near the Winton Formation in Central…
Newly discovered monster galaxy is the largest ever found
Home News (Image credit: Oei, et al/ArXiv) Galaxies are mind-bendingly big structures, but one recently discovered galaxy is an absolute colossus stretching millions of light years across despite having less mass than many of its counterparts.The galaxy in question, Alcyoneus, is a special type of galaxy known as a radio galaxy, defined by a unique…
Astronomers discovered a mysterious spinning mass at the edge of our galaxy
Astronomers have discovered a mysterious repeating transient at the edge of our galaxy. The mass is unlike anything we’ve ever seen, and it releases massive bursts of energy up to three times an hour. Researchers discovered the mass while mapping radio waves in space. The team believes it could be a neutron star or even…
Biologists discovered new information about the tiny propellers on earth
Like bacteria, Archaea are ubiquitous microorganisms that successfully colonize diverse environments. They are found in a vast range of habitats. But there is a slight difference between bacteria and archaea: Archaea don’t cause disease. Archea propels themselves to incredible speeds by rotating a spiral-shaped filament called an archaellum. Scientists at the Unversity of Exeter used…
Two New Bird Species Discovered on Borneo
Ornithologists have described two new species of the flycatcher genus Cyornis and the white-eye genus Zosterops from southeastern Borneo, Indonesia. The Meratus jungle flycatcher in the Meratus Mountains, South Kalimantan province, Indonesia, on July 8, 2016. Image credit: Eaton et al. Cyornis is a genus of passerine birds in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.…
3D-model of DNA. Credit: Michael Ströck/Wikimedia/ GNU Free Documentation License The DNA that lies tightly coiled in nearly every human cell is subjected to thousands of insults and injuries from within and without daily, which is why the human body has evolved multiple highly effective mechanisms for repairing DNA damage. "We have in place exquisite…
Scientists discovered proteins that could responsible for the origins of life
How did life appear on our planet? A new study by the Rutgers scientists addressed these most profoundly unanswered questions in biology. Scientists have discovered the structures of proteins that could be leading players in the origins of life in the primordial soup of ancient Earth. They determined the properties that defined life and concluded…
3 newly discovered worlds risk doom orbiting too close to dying stars
Home News Science & Astronomy An artist's depiction of a hot Jupiter-sized exoplanet, like TOI-2337b, TOI-4329b or TOI-2669b, in orbit around an evolved, dying star. (Image credit: Karen Teramura/University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy) Astronomers have spotted three new exoplanets orbiting dangerously close to their parent stars, on the brink of extinction. The three exoplanets, named…
A Q&A With the Scientist Who Discovered Cannabis Can Prevent COVID-19
A groundbreaking new study out of two Oregon universities has identified an unusual naturally-occuring substance as a promising tool to prevent COVID-19 infections: cannabis. Published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Natural Products, the study identified three cannabis compounds—non-psychoactive precursors found in the plant before it’s converted into the stuff that gets you high—as being notably effective at…