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Cancer sometimes creeps in slowly, other times it bursts onto the scene without much warning. Either way, the disease hijacks the instructions that tell our cells how to behave, turning helpful teammates into troublemakers. For decades, oncology has focused on destroying those unruly cells. A new line of work asks a different question: what if we could push them back …

The Appalachian Mountains, with their ancient peaks and timeworn ridges, are a familiar sight in Eastern North America. But beneath them, deep within the Earth’s crust, a geological anomaly is slowly but surely reshaping the landscape. Recent research has uncovered the presence of a hot blob of rock, buried 125 miles below the surface, that may have played a significant …

Scientists discover why your brain demands sleep  Boing Boing Sleepiness Could Be Triggered by a Power Overload in Our Brain  ScienceAlert Our brain’s mitochondria may play a crucial role in the onset of sleep  New Scientist Sleep cycle triggered by electrical overload in brain cells  EarthSky Research results suggest that drowsiness may be caused by mitochondrial overload  GIGAZINE Source link

Paleontologists say they have discovered the 76-million-year-old footprints of a ceratopsian dinosaur-dominated herd in Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada. The discovery provides the first evidence of mixed-species herding behavior in dinosaurs, similar to how modern wildebeest and zebra travel together on the African plains. A herd of ceratopsians (Styracosaurus albertensis) accompanied by an ankylosaur (Euplocephalus tutus) walk through an …

Hitting 10,000 steps a day is a goal for millions of us — but we should be focusing on the pace not the paces, according to a study.  Research suggests that going on a daily brisk 15-minute walk could boost heart health and reduce risk of death by 19 per cent.  US researchers, who studied more than 79,850 adults from …

Study Overturns Decades-Old Dogma: Scientists Discover “Hidden Organization” in Gene Regulation  SciTechDaily Source link

UCSF scientists have discovered how microglia engulf and break down amyloid beta, a protein that builds up in Alzheimer’s, with devastating consequences for the brain. In Alzheimer’s disease, proteins like amyloid beta form clumps, known as plaques, that damage the brain. But in some people, immune cells called microglia break down these proteins before they can cause harm. This leads …

Astronomers Discover Potentially Habitable Earth-Like Planet Just 35 Light-Years Away  SciTechDaily This ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet 35 light-years away might have what it takes to support life  Yahoo Home Astronomers Find Five Rocky Planets Around a Small Red Dwarf, Including a Super-Earth in the Habitable Zone  Universe Today NEWS🚨: Astronomers Find Five Planets Around a Small Star, Including a Super-Earth in the Habitable Zone  Vocal Exoplanet …

In the arid shale beds of western India, scientists have uncovered a remarkable fossil that tells the story of a prehistoric snake that once ruled the landscape. Named Vasuki indicus, this massive serpent stretched an estimated 50 feet long and likely weighed over 2,200 pounds. The discovery ranks it among the largest snakes ever found, rivaling the infamous Titanoboa and …

Two drugs already approved by the FDA for cancer treatment may hold the key to reversing Alzheimer’s disease in patients, experts say.  Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) believe that letrozole, a hormone-based breast cancer drug, and irinotecan, a lung and colon cancer chemotherapy medication, can help reverse brain damage caused by the incurable neurodegenerative disease.    In …