Planetary Science Trinity Researchers Tackle the Spiders From Mars (Planetary Science) 22 Mar 2021 Researchers at Trinity College Dublin have been shedding light on the enigmatic “spiders from Mars”, providing the first physical evidence that these unique features on the planet’s surface can be formed by the…
Astronomy Can Dark Matter Be Lighter Than The Tremaine-Gunn Lower Bound? (Cosmology / Astronomy) 22 Mar 202123 Mar 2021 While the astrophysical evidence for dark matter (DM) is overwhelming, its particle nature has evaded detection. It is generally held that DM cannot be lighter than ∼ 10¯22 eV below…
Medicine Detonating Fuse for Breast Cancer Discovered (Medicine) 22 Mar 2021 Targeted treatment of basal-like breast cancer could be facilitated by YAP inhibitors in the future. As reported by an MDC team headed by Walter Birchmeier in the scientific journal Cancer…
Material science Study Could Help Develop Biosensors For Non-invasive Diagnosis of Diseases (Material Science) 22 Mar 2021 Brazilian researchers tested the capacity of different materials to produce sensors for the detection of PCA3, a gene that is overexpressed in prostate cancer. The technique can also be used…
Medicine New Treatment Proves More Effective and Less Toxic for Neuroendocrine Tumor Patients (Medicine) 22 Mar 2021 A new treatment for late-stage neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) has been found to be more effective and have fewer side effects than the current standard of care, according to research published…
Medicine Cholesterol Accumulation Contributes to Movement Disorder in Patients with NUS1 mutation (Medicine) 22 Mar 2021 SC Family Finds Hope in Research Breakthrough for Rare Disorder Chloe Murphy’s parents had been concerned about her balance from the time she started walking. Then came strong hand and…
Astronomy Five Myths About the Big Bang (Cosmology / Astronomy) 22 Mar 2021 Where did the Big Bang happen, and what was going on around it? Two physicists take us through the most common misunderstandings of what the theory is about. The whole…
