An mRNA cancer vaccine may offer long-term protection
In a small clinical trial involving pancreatic cancer patients, the vaccine spurred a strong immune response in eight out of 16 participants, generating a legion of red flag–targeting T cells.
‘Shining anus’ volcano in Tonga coughs up cloud of smoke during recent eruption — Earth from space
However, the smoke in the image, which was pumping out of a volcanic cone north of the crater lake, known as Lofia, is a reminder that the island is still very much active and could blow its top once again in the future, according to NASA's Earth Observatory.
Human memory is flawed. But a new book says that’s OK
Perhaps the comparison speaks to me because I have watched my kids create elaborate villages of Lego bricks, only to be dismantled, put away (after much nagging) and reconstructed, always with a similar overall structure but with minor and occasionally major changes.
Have we vastly underestimated the total number of people on Earth?
Josias Láng-Ritter and his colleagues at Aalto University, Finland, were working to understand the extent to which dam construction projects caused people to be resettled, but while estimating populations, they kept getting vastly different numbers to official statistics.
Dinosaurs: Facts about the reptiles that roamed Earth more than 66 million years ago
Dinosaurs likewise probably had very effective breathing thanks to air cavities within their light bones. These cavities assisted them take up oxygen during both breathing and exhalation. This may have contributed to their development to such gigantic sizes. Some dinosaurs might have made use of feathers to stay warm, court companions and even fly. For...
Fossils reveal what the fur of early mammals looked like
The team plans to expand its study by looking at additional early mammal fossils from elsewhere in the world, but Shawkey doesn’t expect the results to be much different.
Mystery illness kills over 50 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The main symptoms seen in the reported cases have included fever, chills, headache, body aches, sweating, neck stiffness, cough, vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal cramps.
Space photo of the week: James Webb telescope reveals mysterious ‘light echo’ in the broken heart of Cassiopeia
Shreejaya Karantha is a scientific research author specializing in astronomy, covering topics such as the sun, worldly science, stellar advancement, great voids, and early cosmos cosmology. Based in India, she works as an author and study expert at The Tricks of the Universe, where she adds to scripts for research-based and explainer video clips. Shreejaya...
James Webb Space Telescope reveals how a cosmic ‘Phoenix’ cools off to birth stars
This assisted the researchers find the “missing out on” cooling gas that adds to star development. They additionally found that this gas, with a temperature of around 540,000 degrees Fahrenheit (300,000 levels Celsius), was located within cavities in the Phoenix Collection. The level of sensitivity of MIRI obtained a boost in this investigation from an...
‘It felt like dread.’ Hear what severe depression can do to people
But when you put someone in a PET scanner and you looked at the activity, the metabolism of the brain, there was a clear pattern that was very different from people who weren’t depressed.
Tomb of ancient Egyptian pharaoh is 1st to be discovered in 100 years
Nonetheless, unlike King Tut’s interment, the newly found burial place is primarily empty and doesn’t have a body. Excavators found that the tomb had actually been swamped soon after Thutmose II was hidden, so the serious products had been taken elsewhere, the statement stated. Owen Jarus is a routine contributor to Live Scientific research that...
The 7 most consequential moments in the history of everything
Our special feature serves as a reminder of how much asking when has already taught us about the grand sweep of cosmic and terrestrial history, from the switching on of the first stars to the first life on this planet.
Lasers reveal 15th-century fortified Zapotec city in Mexico
They found that "it covered 360 hectares [890 acres], with over 1,100 buildings, four kilometres [2.5 miles] of walls, a network of internal roads and a clearly organized urban layout with temples and communal spaces such as ballcourts, and the elites and commoners lived in separate neighbourhoods," according to astatement describing the research.
Sex leaves ‘microbial traces’ on genitalia, even when a condom is used — scientists call it the ‘sexome’
In general, the lady individuals had a higher volume of germs in their genital microbiomes than the male individuals did– corresponding to approximately 8,038 bacterial genetic sequences in women, compared to 6,661 in males. Men revealed a greater diversity of microbial varieties, with about twice the number of varieties represented contrasted with women. In the...
Earthquakes at massive Alaska volcano Mount Spurr ramp up again — and there’s now a 50-50 chance of an eruption
Mount Spurr, a snow-covered stratovolcano that sits 77 miles (124 kilometers) across the Cook Inlet from Anchorage, has been shuddering with small earthquakes since April 2024, according to the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO).
Astronomers unsure what caused ‘weird explosion’ seen by Einstein Probe’s X-ray eye
"NICER's ability to steer to pretty much any part of the sky and monitor for weeks has been instrumental in our understanding of these unusual cosmic explosions," explained Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researcher and team member Dheeraj Pasham.
A man volunteered to get brain implants for depression. Hear his story
There are hockey sticks, softball catcher pads, golf clubs, balls of all sorts, bikes, inline skates, a mesh goal, and a super cute white motor scooter.