Boosting Weak Immune System: Scientists Find an Unusual Weapon Against Virus
Some viruses can be dormant throughout a person’s life and cause no harm but become dangerous when the immune system is weakened. One of......
Study Points to South America – Not Mexico – as Birthplace of Irish Potato Famine Pathogen
North Carolina State University researchers firmly point the finger at the South American Andes Mountains as the place where the Irish potato......
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Reveals Secrets of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS Aug. 6, with its Near-Infrared Spectrograph instrument. The research......
HKU Geologists Discover Hidden Magmatism at the Chang'e-6 Lunar Landing Site,
Earlier this year, the Chang’e-6 mission of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, successfully launched on May 3, landed on the lunar......
First pictures from Euclid satellite reveal billions of orphan stars
The first scientific pictures from the Euclid satellite mission have revealed more than 1,500 billion orphan stars scattered throughout the......
Refrigerate lettuce to reduce risk of E. coli contamination
We are seeing a lot of outbreaks on lettuce, but not so much on kale and other brassica vegetables. We wanted to learn more about the suscepti......
Elaborate Komodo Dragon Armor Defends Against Other Dragons
After scanning Komodo dragon specimens with high-powered X-rays, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin think they have an answer......
Texas Tech Lab Plays Key Role in Potential New Pathway to Fight Viruses
The genome of the Javan horseshoe bat ( Rhinolophus affinis ), a carrier of coronaviruses closely related to SARS-CoV-2, was also sequenced by......