Planetary Science Astronomers Discovered the Smallest Microlensing Planet (Planetary Science) 17 Jan 202117 Jan 2021 Summary: —> Astronomers Discovered the Smallest Microlensing planet OGLE-2019-BLG-0960 Lb. —> OGLE-2019-BLG-0960Lb is the 19th microlensing planet with a mass-ratio below the fiducial power-law break in the mass-ratio distribution. —>…
Computer Science… Light-based Processors Boost Machine-learning Processing (Computer / Engineering) 17 Jan 2021 An international team of scientists have developed a photonic processor that uses rays of light inside silicon chips to process information much faster than conventional electronic chips. Published in Nature,…
Computer Science… EPFL Student Creates a New Language-analysis Program (Computer / Engineering) 17 Jan 2021 Jonathan Besomi, a Master’s student at EPFL, has developed a program called Texthero that lets users generate representations of textual data with just a few lines of code, thereby simplifying…
Neuroscience As the Brain Plans Movements, the Middle Frontal Gyrus is Listening (Neuroscience) 17 Jan 2021 A brain-computer interface study reveals one brain region’s surprising role in planning movements exclusively in response to sounds. In the swimming pool game Marco Polo, “Marco” navigates toward other players…
Medicine Proteogenomics Helps Treat Certain Squamous Cell Carcinomas (Medicine) 17 Jan 2021 Proteogenomic analysis may offer new insight into matching cancer patients with an effective therapy for their particular cancer. A new study identifies three molecular subtypes in head and neck squamous…
Medicine Triggering Antiviral Immune Response in Certain Breast Cancers (Medicine) 17 Jan 2021 Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered how therapeutics targeting RNA splicing can activate antiviral immune pathways in triple negative breast cancers (TNBC) to trigger tumor cell death and…
Medicine U of A Researchers Discover One of Our Cellular Building Blocks Acts as a Gel, Not Liquid as Previously Believed (Medicine) 17 Jan 2021 Landmark discovery of the physical state of complex DNA and protein “packages”—called chromatin—in a cell’s nucleus could lead to better understanding of diseases such as cancer. University of Alberta researchers…
