Planetary Science What Are The Effects of Temperature, Impact Velocity & Impactor Density On Crater Shape? (Planetary Science) 7 Mar 20217 Mar 2021 Iron meteorites are composed of iron-nickel alloys and classified structurally into hexahedrites (5–6.5 wt% Ni), octahedrites (6–12 wt% Ni), and ataxites (~10 to >20 wt% Ni). Iron meteorites are also…
Biology No Eyes? No Problem. Worms Still Avoid the Blues (Biology) 7 Mar 2021 Worms don’t like the blues. At least not the blue-tinged toxic bacteria that are common in the environmental trash heaps they call home. So how does a bacteria-foraging worm —…
Finance Is Bitcoin a Bubble? (Finance) 7 Mar 2021 The price of a single Bitcoin reached a peak of $57,489 on February 21, and remains up more than 700% since the beginning of 2020, defying years of predictions of…
Medicine Swansea University Developing World’s First COVID-19 ‘Smart-Patch’ Vaccine That Will Measure Effectiveness (Medicine) 7 Mar 2021 Researchers at Swansea University are developing the world’s first smart vaccine device that will both deliver the COVID-19 vaccine and measure its efficacy through monitoring the body’s associated response. The…
Medicine New Method Facilitates Development of Antibody-based Drugs (Medicine) 7 Mar 2021 In recent years, therapeutic antibodies have transformed the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. Now, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new, efficient method based on the…
Medicine Ambulatory Function Among Cancer Survivors May be an Important Determinant for Survival (Medicine) 7 Mar 2021 Cancer survivors had a greater risk of reduced ambulatory function, which was associated with an increased risk of death, according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a…
Neuroscience Researchers Reveal Process Behind Harmful Glial Cell Change in Motor Neurone Disease (Neuroscience) 7 Mar 2021 Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL have identified the trigger of a key cellular change in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a type of motor neurone disease. The findings…
