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The ambitious plan to save more than nine in 10 cancer patients from death
More than 90 per cent of Australians could survive their cancer diagnosis within a decade under…
Scientists say they’ve found the missing 40 percent of the universe’s matter
They just had to revisit some decades-old data to do it. Read more at Futurism…
Fast radio burst may have come from the Milky Way
Since the discovery of fast radio bursts in 2007, scientists have worked to identify the sources…
Viruses have been shown to produce their own energy for the first time
Viruses are supposed to be utterly reliant on the cells they infect but it appears a…
Rapidly declining body temperature in a tropical human population
Normal human body temperature (BT) has long been considered to be 37.0°C. Yet, BTs have declined…
Astronomers discover activity on distant planetary object
Centaurs are minor planets believed to have originated in the Kuiper Belt in the outer solar…
Covid: Antibodies ‘fall rapidly after infection’
This is likely to mean immunity levels decline and raises the risk of reinfection, researchers say.…
The BepiColombo Probe Just Took a Ridiculously Close Video of Venus as It Flew By
Two years after it left Earth, Mercury probe BepiColombo has completed the first of its first…
Cause of Alzheimer’s disease traced to mutation in common enzyme
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered a new mechanism by which clumps of tau protein…
Scientists Found an Ancient Tectonic Plate Buried Deep Inside the Earth’s Mantle – ExtremeTech
Geologists have found the remains of a previous continental plate that had only been theorized to…
Scientists discover new organ in the throat
A secret set of salivary glands has been hiding behind the nose. Read more at livescience.com…
Evidence of broadside collision with dwarf galaxy discovered in Milky Way
Nearly 3 billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy plunged into the center of the Milky Way…
NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft touches down on asteroid Bennu
The mission marks the space agency’s first landing on an asteroid. Read more at CNET…
A Supernova Exploded Perilously Close To Earth 2.5 Million Years Ago
The Earth has been through a lot in the 4.5 billion or so years it’s been…
Finally, the First Room-Temperature Superconductor
It conveys electricity in the climate of a crisp fall day, but only under pressures comparable…
Physicists Just Confirmed The Upper Limit For The Speed of Sound in The Universe
Einstein’s theory of special relativity gave us the speed limit of the Universe – that of…
More people have died from Covid-19 than in the past 5 flu seasons combined
Coronavirus isn’t just deadlier than the flu — it’s also more contagious. These illustrations show why.…
Flurry of coronavirus reinfections leaves scientists puzzled
Though far from common, some patients developed worse symptoms the second time they became infected with…
Physics Nobel Awarded for Darkest Secrets of the Universe
Black holes are incredibly simple: they’re said to have “no hair” meaning all distinctive features seem…