Biomedical engineers at UC Davis have created semi-living “cyborg cells.” Retaining the capabilities of living cells, but unable to replicate, the cyborg cells could have a wide range of applications, from producing therapeutic drugs to cleaning up pollution.

The body's first blush with a pathogen shapes how it will respond to vaccines. New evidence clarifies how this phenomenon works, mechanistically.

Intense, extremely short-wave X-ray pulses in the nanometre wavelength range are difficult to produce, but now a new, simpler method has been developed at TU Wien (Vienna): the starting point is not a titanium-sapphire laser, which had mostly been used for th…

All kinds of exoplanets orbit very close to their star. Some look like the Earth, others like Jupiter. Very few, however, are similar to Neptune. Why this anomaly in the distribution of exoplanets? Researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the Nat…

Yesterday’s plan executed successfully including a short bump that placed us in front of an interesting block that may just contain our next drilled target!

Our solar system is estimated to be about 4.57 billion years old. Previous analyses of ancient meteorites have shown that minerals were created through chemical reactions with water as far back as 4.5 billion years ago. New findings from the Ryugu asteroid sa…

Detailed radio observations turn up previously unseen remnants of dying stars in our galaxy.

Not only was NASA's James Webb Space Telescope able to identify the exoplanet but it was also able to detect a range of molecules to determine what the exoplanet's atmosphere might be.

Small, rocky, Earth-like exoplanets is what we're interested in, but they're hard to study. Polarimetry could be a key.

A predictive model has been developed that enables researchers to encode instructions for cells to execute. Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and IBM Research have created a virtual library of thousands of "command sentences" fo…

The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us over the archipelago of Lofoten in northern Norway.

A large-scale biobank-based study performed in Finland has discovered several new disease genes as well as new insights on how known genetic factors affect dise

This image was acquired in the very late southern summer at an incidence angle of 83.5 degrees (the sun was just 6.5 degrees above the horizon).

At the scale of individual atoms, physics gets weird. Researchers are working to reveal, harness, and control these strange quantum effects using quantum analog

Footage recorded through the window of a plane shows a vibrant green aurora lighting up the sky over Greenland. #shorts

Astronomers recently discovered a green comet approaching Earth for the first time in 50,000 years.Comet ZTF may never return, so we could be the last humans

Scientists have confirmed the first experimental observation of Cherenkov radiation confined in two dimensions, according to new research.

Previously believed doomed due to climate change, it turns out echidnas have worked out some novel ways of keeping cool.

Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry ID'd the culprit as the volatile ketone 3-octanone.

Researchers combing the surface of Antarctica for space rocks hit the jackpot by finding five meteorites in the tundra, one...

The team found five meteorites during their recent expedition. The rocks are now headed to a museum for study.

No need to panic, but oddly enough, we missed this one as it approached.

The people we are in close contact with constitute another crucial source of the microbes that contribute to health, beside mother-to-child transmission at birth. The new findings may help understand how the microbial species associated with the risk of cardi…

Heliozoan axopodia are important for their motility. However, the underlying mechanism of their axopodial contraction has remained ambiguous. Recently, researchers from the Okayama University reported that microtubules are simultaneously cleaved at multiple s…

The Marshall Star for January 18, 2023.