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Alex Muller
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NASA is designing a time zone just for the moon
On Tuesday, the White House issued a memo directing the agency to establish a Coordinated Lunar Time, which will help guide humanity’s potentially permanent presence...
Melting ice makes Arctic a target for a new deep sea internet cable
Each day an estimated 95 percent of the world’s data travels across the roughly 900,000 miles of submarine fiber optic cables criss-crossing the ocean floor....
This Gene Increases the Risk of Alzheimer’s. Scientists Finally Know Why
At the turn of the 20th century, Dr. Alois Alzheimer noticed peculiar changes in a freshly removed brain. Curiously, shiny bubbles of fat had also...
Russia and China Want to Build a Nuclear Power Plant on the Moon
Lunar exploration is back in fashion these days, with a host of national space agencies as well as private companies launching missions to our nearest...
Cell Therapy Takes Aim At Deadly Brain Tumors In Two Clinical Trials
This month, two studies genetically engineered the body’s own immune cells to hunt down and wipe out glioblastoma brain tumors. Therapies using these CAR T...
GPT-4 is 82% more persuasive than humans, and AIs can now read emotions
GPT-4 is already better at changing people’s minds than the average human is, according to new research. As Yuval Noah Harari points out in Sapiens,...
Blood test reveals best lung cancer treatment
The test looks for genetic variations to aid treatment decisions. Some tumours can be treated with pills rather than standard chemotherapy, often meaning fewer side...
Preventative cancer therapies can cause the disease to ‘hibernate’ and return later, research suggests
Preventative treatment designed to stop the recurrence of breast cancer can actually cause the cancer cells to mutate and ‘hibernate’, only to grow again years...
AI reveals prostate cancer is not just one disease
A Cancer Research UK-funded study, published in Cell Genomics, has revealed that prostate cancer, which affects one in eight men in their lifetime, includes two different subtypes termed...
Cancer signs could be spotted years before symptoms, says new research institute
Scientists at a recently opened cancer institute at Cambridge University have begun work that is pinpointing changes in cells many years before they develop into...