Astronomy New Footprints From the Gaia-sausage-enceladus Merger Event (Cosmology / Astronomy) 16 Mar 2021 Looking up at the starry sky, the deep Universe appears quiet and mysterious. It is hard to imagine that the ancient dwarf galaxy Enceladus violently collided and was torn apart…
Astronomy Ancient Light Illuminates Matter That Fuels Galaxy Formation (Astronomy / Cosmology) 16 Mar 2021 Using light from the Big Bang, an international team led by Cornell and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has begun to unveil the material which fuels…
Medicine Combination Therapy May Provide Significant Protection Against Lethal Influenza (Medicine) 16 Mar 2021 Targeting a receptor involved in exaggerated immune response to influenza infection improves survival in animal models, investigators report in The American Journal of Pathology A significant proportion of hospitalized patients with…
Planetary Science IMAGE RELEASE: Cosmic Lens Reveals Faint Radio Galaxy (Planetary Science) 16 Mar 2021 Radio telescopes are the world’s most sensitive radio receivers, capable of finding extremely faint wisps of radio emission coming from objects at the farthest reaches of the universe. Recently, a…
Medicine Exposure to Common Chemical Preservative During Pregnancy May Reduce Protection Against Breast Cancer (Medicine) 16 Mar 2021 UMass Amherst research suggests propylparaben is an endocrine disruptor Low doses of propylparaben – a chemical preservative found in food, drugs and cosmetics – can alter pregnancy-related changes in the…
Planetary Science What Happened to Mars’s Water? It is Still Trapped There (Planetary Science) 16 Mar 2021 New data challenges the long-held theory that all of Mars's water escaped into space Billions of years ago, the Red Planet was far more blue; according to evidence still found…
Planetary Science Is There Life on Mars Today – and Where? (Planetary Science) 16 Mar 2021 In a comment published today in Nature Astronomy, Dr. Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center for Research at the SETI Institute, challenges assumptions about the possibility of modern life on…