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September 29, 2015
Might we be Martians?
Watch out Mars, here we come. Maybe. Someday. NASA used to play down the notion that the arid, desolate landscape of Mars could ever possibly be home to future life. However, the recent announcement confirming the flow of liquid water on Mars is causing its planetary science division to reconsider. In a recent paper published … Read more
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September 21, 2015
New class of drugs to target cancer’s metabolism
In research published in Cancer Cell, Thomas Burris, Ph.D., chair of pharmacology and physiology at Saint Louis University, has, for the first time, found a way to stop cancer cell growth by targeting the Warburg Effect, a trait of cancer cell metabolism that scientists have been eager to exploit. The Warburg effect is a cancer … Read more
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September 20, 2015
Image of the Week : Arctic Eclipse
Called “one of the astronomical highlights of the year,” this photo of the moon’s total eclipse of the sun in March earned the French photographer Luc Jamet the title of astrological photographer of the year, presented at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. To see all the compelling and luminous images which won distinction in this year’s competition, follow this link. At Oxford … Read more
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July 26, 2015
Hairy Ice Explained
It sprouts on dead wood at night in northern latitudes and disappears when the sun rises. Its micro-thin fibers look like the curls on a baby’s head. What scientists have called “one of the most exciting types of ice,” hair ice has now been replicated in the lab with the help of a certain fungus … Read more
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July 4, 2015
The most prevalent vertebrate on the planet is one you’ve never seen
While land habitat makes up less than 1 percent of our biosphere, scientists put the ocean’s share at more than 99 percent. So it’s no surprise that new findings put the tiny bristlemouth, a fish living at the middle depths which glows in the dark and has needle-like fangs, as the most numerous vertebrate on … Read more