Medicine UCLA Study Finds Combination Therapy Suppresses Pancreatic Tumor Growth in Mice (Medicine) 18 Feb 2021 CLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have uncovered a potential new way to target pancreatic tumors that express high intratumoral interferon signaling (IFN). The team found that high type I…
Astronomy Sudden Death in the Universe – The Agony of a Massive Dusty Galaxy as Seen By its Blue Companion (Astronomy) 18 Feb 2021 Heavily dust-obscured ultramassive star-forming galaxies in the early Universe contributed significantly to the cosmic star formation rate. But, how did such objects manage to build up their stellar masses at…
Astronomy What Wormholes Generate? (Astronomy) 18 Feb 202119 Feb 2021 Traversable wormhole arises as a solution to the Einstein field equations and was first proposed by Morris and Thorne as time travel machines. The idea of wormhole spacetime was given…
PHYSICS LHC / ATLAS: A Unique Observation Of Particle Pair Creation in Photon-photon Collisions (Physics) 18 Feb 2021 Creation of matter in an interaction of two photons belongs to a class of very rare phenomena. From the data of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC, collected with the…
PHYSICS Investigating the Wave Properties of Matter With Vibrating Molecules (Physics) 18 Feb 2021 Almost 100 years ago, a revolutionary discovery was made in the field of physics: microscopic matter exhibits wave properties. Over the decades, more and more precise experiments have been used…
Paleontology The Seafloor Was Inhabited by Giant Predatory Worms Until 5.3 Million Years Ago (Paleontology) 18 Feb 2021 An international study in which the University of Granada participated—recently published in the journal Scientific Reports—has identified a new fossil record of these mysterious animals in the northeast of Taiwan (China),…
Medicine An Efficient Method For Separating O-18 from O-16, Essential for Use in Cancer Treatment (Medicine) 18 Feb 2021 Positron Emission Tomography (PET) plays a major role in the early detection of various types of cancer. A research group led by Specially Appointed Professor Katsumi Kaneko of the Research…