Type A blood converted to universal donor blood with help from bacterial enzymes
Approach could revolutionize blood donation and tr | Read more...
Carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere hit record high in May
Atmospheric carbon dioxide continued its rapid rise in 2019, with the average for May peaking at 414.7 parts per million (ppm) at NOAA's Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Ob | Read more...
Physicists can predict the jumps of Schrödinger’s cat (and finally save it)
Researchers have figured out how to catch and save Schrödinger's famous cat, the symbol of quantum superposition and unpredictability, by anticipating its jumps and acting in real time to save it from prover | Read more...
Comet inspires chemistry for making breathable oxygen on Mars
Researchers have demonstrated a new reaction for generating oxygen that could help humans explore the universe and perhaps even fight climate chang | Read more...
Sea Level Rise Could Soon Displace Up to 187 Million People
Top experts say that in a worst-case scenario, portions of these and other U.S. coastal cities could be lost to the sea by the end of the century as ocean levels rise because of global warming, a study released Monday said. In fact, on average, seas around the world could be as much as 6.5 feet higher by the end of the century if climate change continues u | Read more...
HPV Virus Causes Rise in Throat Cancer
"Throat cancer is still relatively rare, and though it is not an epidemic, the rate of increase is alarming." says surgeon Scharukh Jalisi, MD, Chief of Otolaryngology and Medical Director of the Head and Neck Cancer Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medic | Read more...
A new way of diagnosing and treating disease — without cutting skin
Researchers have developed a specialized microscope that has the potential ability to both diagnose diseases that include skin cancer and perform incredibly precise surgery -- all without cut | Read more...
Owning a Dog? It May Be in Your Genes
Scientists have studied the heritability of dog ownership using information from 35,035 twin pairs from the Swedish Twin Registry. The new study suggests that genetic variation explains more than half of the variation in dog ownership, implying that the choice of getting a dog is heavily influenced by an individual's geneti | Read more...
How we make complex decisions
Neuroscientists have identified a brain circuit that helps break complex decisions down into smaller pieces. The study sheds light on how the brain reasons about probable causes of failure after a hierarchy of | Read more...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is launching the first of 12,000 Starlink satellites to cover Earth in high-speed internet.
SpaceX is targeting Thursday, May 16 for the launch of 60 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. SpaceX’s Starlink is a next-generation satellite network capable of connecting the globe, especially reaching those who are not yet connected, with reliable and affordable broadband internet | Read more...
