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There might just be a strange irony to this week’s news that Oscar Isaac, AKA the tousled X-wing pilot Poe Dameron, is up for a return to Star Wars if the script is right. Because before the actor’s comments in a new interview with Variety, it was quite possible to forget that the sequel trilogy ever existed. Was The Force …

An experimental mRNA vaccine boosted the tumor-fighting effects of immunotherapy in a mouse-model study, bringing researchers one step closer to their goal of developing a universal vaccine to “wake up” the immune system against cancer. Published recently in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the University of Florida study showed that like a one-two punch, pairing the test vaccine with common anticancer drugs called …

A cosmic blast may have wiped out a lost civilization 12,800 years ago. Credit: Kevin Gill / CC BY 2.0 A powerful cosmic explosion may have wiped out an early, advanced human civilization around 12,800 years ago. New scientific findings in Louisiana suggest that a large comet fragment exploded in Earth’s atmosphere with enough force to melt stone into glass, …

Almost 13,000 years ago, a massive fragment of a comet exploded over Louisiana, turning stone into glass and potentially offering evidence for one of history’s most controversial theories. New research supports ideas popularized by author Graham Hancock, who shared a stage with comet scientist Dr Allan West to discuss the findings.  Hancock’s bestselling books argue for the existence of a …

New clues from ancient seas are reshaping what we know about mass extinction and the future of our oceans. In a recent breakthrough, scientists have confirmed for the first time that a sudden, sharp drop in ocean pH—driven by a massive release of carbon dioxide—played a central role in wiping out entire ecosystems over 200 million years ago. A team …