Paleontology Rare Fossilized Algae, Discovered Unexpectedly, fill in Evolutionary Gaps (Paleontology) 23 Mar 2021 When geobiology graduate student Katie Maloney trekked into the mountains of Canada’s remote Yukon territory, she was hoping to find microscopic fossils of early life. Even with detailed field plans,…
Planetary Science Introducing A Changing-look Blazar: B2 1420+32 (Planetary Science) 23 Mar 2021 Hoda Mishra and colleagues presented multi-wavelength photometric and spectroscopic monitoring observations of the blazar, B2 1420+32, focusing on its outbursts in 2018-2020. They found that the object exhibits a large scale…
Planetary Science Astronomers Revealed Mass and True Nature Of TOI-263b (Planetary Science) 23 Mar 2021 The TESS mission is dedicated to the search for transiting extrasolar planets around the brightest and closest stars in the sky. It was launched on April 18th 2018, and has…
Neuroscience More Than Words: Using AI to Map How the Brain Understands Sentences (Neuroscience) 23 Mar 2021 Have you ever wondered why you are able to hear a sentence and understand its meaning – given that the same words in a different order would have an entirely…
Medicine Massey Researcher Finds New Strategy for Fighting Brain Cancer (Medicine) 23 Mar 2021 Most people relate cholesterol to heart health, but it is also a critical component in the growth and spread of brain cancer. VCU Massey Cancer Center researcher Suyun Huang, Ph.D.,…
Medicine New Structure That Mimics Blastocysts Could Aid Research into Early Human Development (Medicine) 23 Mar 2021 A UT Southwestern research team has generated biological structures that resemble blastocysts, the structures that form from the early development of fertilized eggs in mammals, using previously established human embryonic…
Biology Containing the Coronavirus Effects On The Nervous System (Biology) 23 Mar 2021 INRS research could prevent infection of nervous system cells by coronaviruses, such as the one responsible for COVID-19 A number of studies have shown that human coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2 which…
