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Critics deride US administration's 'golden age of science' report – Physics World

The document comes as the administration looks to cut the science budget for 2027

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Venus Isn't Dead After All

Simulations conducted by researchers at ETH Zurich suggest a strong likelihood that Venus’s rift valleys are still geologically active rather than being mere relics of a bygone era, as had been previo...

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Scientist Constructs "Big Picture" of Mars Water from Rover Data

Rover data from more than 20 years ago has revealed clues to the existence of liquid water on ancient Mars. The NASA Spirit Rover carried a specialized instrument called a Mössbauer Spectrometer that ...

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Experimental drug turns cancer’s favorite fuel—sugar—against it

Researchers have found a new way to trick cancer cells into consuming even more sugar than usual and, at the same time, block their backup fuel source—fat. By attacking both fuel sources at once...

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1861 US Army abolishes flogging
1891 World's first traveler's cheques issued by American Express
1905 First meeting of the Russian and Japanese peace commissioners takes place in US President Theodore Roosevelt's home at Oyster Bay, New York
1924 "Little Orphan Annie" comic strip by Harold Gray is 1st published in the New York Daily News
1926 Harry Houdini stays in a coffin underwater for 1½ hours before escaping
1930 The Norwegian Bratvaag expedition finds the remains, diaries and negative images of S. A. Andrée's ill-fated balloon polar expedition of 1897 on White Island in the Svalbard archipelago
1944 German forces begin the mass killing of between 40,000 and 50,000 Polish civilians in the Wola district of Warsaw during the uprising
1957 "American Bandstand" premieres on network TV (ABC)
1966 Protesters throw rocks and bottles at Martin Luther King Jr. before a fair housing protest march at Marquette Park in Chicago
1974 US President Richard Nixon admits he withheld information about Watergate break-in
1981 US President Ronald Reagan fires 11,500 striking air traffic controllers
1992 Four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department previously acquitted on charges of beating Rodney King are indicted on federal civil rights charges
2000 Moni Maker wins the $500,000 Nat Ray at the Meadowlands in a world record time of 1:52.1 to become harness racing's first $5 million stakes earner
2019 Brazilian drug dealer Clauvino da Silva tries and fails to escape a Rio de Janeiro jail by dressing up as his teenage daughter in a silicone mask and wig
2022 Volkswagen launches a prototype of its first flying car, an automated, electric passenger vehicle nicknamed "Flying Tigers

First immune pathway discovered that stops a normally harmless fungus spreading through the body and causing deadly disease

An immune pathway has been discovered which prevents a normally harmless fungus developing into a fatal infection.

eurekalert.org

Indicators of Global Climate Change 2025: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence

Abstract. In a rapidly changing climate, evidence-based decision-making benefits from up-to-date and timely information. We track twelve key sets of indicators of the state of the climate system, clos...

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The Universe May Not Be Accelerating After All—And It Could Mean Dark Energy Never Existed

If the cosmos is lopsided, the foundation of modern cosmology starts to look a little shaky.

popularmechanics.com

New Trump administration rules on federal science funding could make American research slower, costlier and harder to share

Beyond deprioritizing scientific merit, the Trump administration’s proposal also restricts researchers’ ability to share their findings and collaborate with each other.

theconversation.com

5 things you might not know about the brown recluse

Few spiders elicit as much fear as the brown recluse, but most people are far less likely to run into one or get bitten than they think, according to U of A researcher Matthew Cordes.

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This school-bus-sized “terror croc” ate dinosaurs. Now it’s back

A massive crocodilian capable of attacking dinosaurs has been brought back to life as the first scientifically accurate mounted skeleton of Deinosuchus schwimmeri. The 31-foot replica at Georgia’s Tel...

sciencedaily.com

A colossal magma system has been hiding beneath Tuscany

A massive magma reservoir has been detected deep beneath Tuscany, despite showing no obvious signs at the surface. Scientists mapped the roughly 6,000-cubic-kilometer body using natural ground vibrati...

sciencedaily.com

Europe’s wildfires became so intense they created their own storm

Historic wildfires scorched huge areas of Spain and France, with one Spanish blaze burning an area about the size of New York City and a French fire generating a rare, towering fire cloud. A dangerous...

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Stanford scientists discover immune cells that explode like microscopic bombs

Stanford researchers discovered immune cells in flatworms that explode within minutes, killing nearby bacteria and foreign cells before vanishing completely. Their unusually fast and localized attack ...

sciencedaily.com

Cancer-fighting chewing gum cuts HPV levels by up to 93%

A specially engineered chewing gum reduced HPV by up to 93% and nearly eliminated two bacteria linked to head and neck cancer. The treatment preserved beneficial mouth bacteria, raising hopes for a sa...

sciencedaily.com

How the brain's electrical signatures shift as tinnitus becomes chronic

Ears are built to listen to sounds from the world around us, but for some people, the sound comes from within. Tinnitus causes people to hear ringing or other noises in one or both ears or in their he...

medicalxpress.com

Evolutionary history may help explain why some people develop more severe COVID-19 than others

Every time a virus invades a person, it collides with thousands of years of human history. A study led by researchers at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and Howard University su...

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Immune cells in human lung tissue may drive the development of autoimmune disease

A massive analysis of immune cells in human tissue is yielding clues to the root causes of lung and autoimmune diseases.

medicalxpress.com

Researchers discover immune 'off switch' used by cancer cells

Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a protein that cancer cells use to shut down the body's immune response, a discovery that could help scientists develop new treatments that make cancer immunoth...

medicalxpress.com

Implant design helps fight ovarian cancer from the inside

Researchers have developed an implant that could deliver next-generation therapies for ovarian cancer precisely where they are needed while simultaneously monitoring how the disease responds.

medicalxpress.com

Combination of targeted therapies could help overcome treatment resistance in advanced prostate cancer

UCLA researchers have identified a promising strategy to make a new class of targeted cancer therapies more effective against one of the deadliest forms of prostate cancer, potentially overcoming trea...

medicalxpress.com

New therapy eliminates gum disease bacterium while preserving beneficial oral microbes

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have created an innovative treatment for periodontitis that targets and eliminates harmful bacteria while preserving beneficial oral microbes essential for he...

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Scientists identify promising new target behind treatment resistance in advanced breast cancer

A new Houston Methodist-led study published in Clinical Cancer Research reports a breakthrough in understanding why some patients with metastatic breast cancer fail to respond to a common and importan...

medicalxpress.com

Zodiacal Dust in Exoplanetary Systems Could Hinder Our Search For Life On Other Worlds

Most exoplanetary systems have a plane of dust similar to the zodiacal dust of our solar system. This dust absorbs some of the very light we use to find biosignatures in exoplanet atmospheres, and cou...

universetoday.com

Are aliens running out of places to hide? It turns out we've searched much more of the galaxy than we realized

"The millimeter and submillimeter radio bands remain almost completely unexplored for SETI, so this is really about opening up a new area of parameter space to search."

space.com

Physicists Shatter Quantum Entanglement Distance Record With 420 Kilometers of Optical Fiber

Maintaining a long-distance relationship may be difficult for humans, but it's even more difficult for entangled states.

sciencealert.com

Spatial atlas of the human brain vasculature reveals specialized cell ensembles

An integrative cell and spatial atlas defines the organizing logic of the adult human cerebrovasculature, providing a framework for studying how vascular cell states support brain function and shape n...

cell.com

No link between MMR vaccination before age 2 and autism, large US study suggests

The findings reinforce existing evidence of the safety of MMR vaccination, the authors say.

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Webb telescope finds signs of ancient disaster for Neptune's moons

New observations of some of Neptune's moons and rings are providing evidence of a catastrophe that occurred billions of years ago around the solar system's outermost planet in which a Pluto-sized inte...

reuters.com