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Researchers Can Now 3D-model A Room Just From Your Eye Reflections

Researchers demonstrate how they're able to take multiple high-definition images of a person moving around a room, then zoom in to look at reflections in their corneas, flip them, remove color and detail the irises might be adding, treat them to remove the curved-mirror distortion, and use them to create 3D images.

A Drug Designed By AI Is Starting Its First Human Trials

Its drug candidate (for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis-a chronic condition where the lungs become scarred and it's hard to breathe) - took just a third of the usual time and a tenth of the usual cost to develop thanks to the company's technology.

Space Colonies: Artificial Photosynthesis May Be Key To Sustained Life Beyond Earth

The exploration of space and our future energy economy have a very similar long-term goal: sustainability. Artificial photosynthesis devices may well become a key part of realizing it.

The Dream Of Harvesting Solar Power From Space Is Gaining Momentum

There is growing momentum in the US, with NASA revealing last year that it had launched a study into space-based solar that is expected to be published in the coming months.

Scientists Reworked An Experimental Cancer Therapy To Treat Autoimmune Disease

For reasons scientists have not been able to figure out yet, the immune response mistakenly attacks its own healthy cells, struggling to distinguish between ally and enemy.

Scientists Discover An Element Essential To Life On Enceladus-Raising Hopes Alien Microbes Swim Under The Ice

This moon has been widely touted as potentially able to support a more flourishing biosphere than Enceladus because of its larger size and greater store of chemical energy in its rocky interior.

Solar Power Investment Will Overtake Oil For The First Time Ever This Year

The International Energy Agency released some good news in its recent World Energy Investment report.

Virgin Galactic Has A Launch Date For Its First Paying Space Tourists

The company's climb to space tourism has been a nearly 20-year-long journey.

Most Blood Pressure Meds Found To Reduce Frequency Of Migraine Headaches

A new study by researchers at The George Institute for Global Health in Sydney, Australia, has found that almost all classes of antihypertensives have some ability to reduce the frequency of headaches in migraine sufferers.

“Unconventional” Mechanism Underlying Parkinson’s Disease Discovered

"The ultimate goal would be to find a way to boost levels of PINK1/Parkin mitophagy in the body - especially the brain - so that damaged mitochondria can be removed more effectively."

Two Drugs May Be Better Than One For Resistant Breast Cancers

Overall, the study suggests that combining new CDK2 inhibitors with CDK4/6 inhibitors – such as palbociclib, ribociclib and abemaciclib – could be effective for patients with either intrinsic or acquired resistance.

Removing Senescent Immune Cells Could Be The Key To Preventing Some Lung Cancers

So, while this research is still in early stages, it could provide hope for an effective way to not only treat, but to intercept and prevent lung cancer, one of the biggest cancers of unmet need.