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Beneath our feet lies a hidden world of staggering scale, a deep ecosystem brimming with billions of microorganisms. Its astonishing diversity has earned it the nickname the “subterranean Galapagos” and suggests that its genetic richness may rival or even surpass life above ground. Presenting their work at the American Geophysical Union’s annual meeting in 2018, the researchers calculated the size …

The skull of Skhul I child showing cranial curvature typical of Homo sapiens. Credit: Tel Aviv University Scientists have uncovered the world’s oldest evidence of human-Neanderthal interbreeding: a 140,000-year-old child from Israel’s Skhul Cave. The fossil shows a unique blend of traits, revealing that humans and Neanderthals were mixing tens of thousands of years earlier than once believed. Fossil Discovery …

Scientists Perform First Pig-to-Human Lung Transplant  The New York Times Pig-to-human lung xenotransplantation into a brain-dead recipient  Nature For the first time, a genetically modified pig lung was transplanted into a brain-dead man  CNN Surgeons transplant pig lung into brain dead human recipient for first time  The Guardian Gene-edited pig lung transplanted into a brain-dead patient for first time  statnews.com Source link

A major new review in JAMA highlights an emerging medical approach that could transform how we fight aging and disease. Rather than treating heart disease, cancer, or kidney disease one at a time, researchers argue for targeting the biological processes of aging itself, an approach known as geroscience. Credit: Stock Scientists are rethinking aging as a treatable process, with new …

Artist’s impression of the entangled logic gate built by University of Sydney quantum scientists. Credit: Emma Hyde/University of Sydney Physicists at the University of Sydney have achieved a breakthrough in quantum computing by creating a universal logic gate inside a single atom. Using a powerful error-correcting system known as the Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) code — often called the “Rosetta Stone” of …

Scientists Find a Quadruple Star System in Our Cosmic Backyard  The New York Times These Rare Star Systems Are A New Tool To Understand Brown Dwarfs  Universe Today Astronomers Discover Extremely Rare Hierarchical Quadruple System  Sci.News Identifying a Rare Binary System of Stars and Brown Dwarfs  AZoQuantum 1st-of-its-kind quadruple star system could reveal secrets of ‘failed star’ brown dwarfs  Space Source link

As measles surged in Texas early this year, the Trump administration’s actions sowed fear and confusion among CDC scientists that kept them from performing the agency’s most critical function — emergency response — when it mattered most, an investigation from KFF Health News shows. The outbreak soon became the worst the United States has endured in over three decades. In …

Researchers have been able to measure liquid carbon experimentally for the first time. They combined a high-power laser with the ultrashort X-ray laser flash of the European XFEL. Credit: HZDR / M. Künsting Researchers have completed a groundbreaking experiment at the European XFEL. An international team of scientists, led by the University of Rostock and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), set …

Northwestern University researchers have unveiled a first-of-its-kind cancer treatment strategy that doesn’t attack tumors directly, but instead strips cancer cells of their ability to adapt and resist therapy. Credit: Shutterstock Restoring cellular memory blocks cancer cells from adapting to escape treatment. Northwestern University biomedical engineers have developed a completely new approach to cancer therapy that doubled the effectiveness of chemotherapy …

Since the early 2000s, scientists have been puzzled by a gleaming turquoise spot in the middle of the Antarctic Ocean showing up in satellite images. The patch is located just south of the great calcite belt, a region that’s rich in the mineral form of calcium carbonate, and teeming with coccolithophores, tiny marine organisms that grow reflective calcite shells out …