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Credit: NASA A colorful, festive image shows different types of light containing the remains of not one, but at least two exploded stars. This supernova remnant is known as 30 Doradus B (30 Dor B for short) and is part of a larger region of space where stars have been continuously forming for the past … Read more
Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight The democratic vote to leave the European Union has had many unexpected consequences for travellers. One of the most serious: UK passengers wrongly denied … Read more
A UC Riverside study to motivate your new year’s resolutions: it demonstrates that high-fat diets affect genes linked not only to obesity, colon cancer and irritable bowels, but also to the immune system, brain function, and potentially COVID-19 risk. While other studies have examined the effects of a high-fat diet, this one is unusual in … Read more
A cartoon of paired homologous chromosomes (blue) with the synaptonemal complex (SC, green) assembled between them. Below, from top to bottom, are cartoons depicting the localization of proteins in a normal SC, in the SC of the researcher-bred infertile nematodes, and in the SC of the nematodes with the suppressor-mutation. Credit: Lisa Kursel and Maria … Read more
(NewsNation) — Next week, members of Congress will get a classified briefing about UFOs by the intelligence community inspector general. Will they finally get answers or be stonewalled? NewsNation special correspondent and investigative journalist Ross Coulthart fears the House Oversight Committee will only get general information. “I think we’re entitled to be skeptical because unfortunately, … Read more
Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email New rules requiring car manufacturers to sell a minimum proportion of zero-emission vehicles has come into force, according to the government’s Department for Transport (DfT). That generally means electric vehicles (EVs). Under the … Read more
Diffuse gliomas are malignant brain tumors that cannot be optimally examined by means of conventional MRI imaging. So-called amino acid PET scans are better able to image the activity and spread of gliomas. An international team of researchers (RANO Working Group), led by scientists from LMU and the Medical University of Vienna, has now drawn … Read more
Synthetic process of PMPC polymers and TmabPMPCs. (A) Synthetic process of thiol-reactive maleimide-modified PMPC. MPC was first polymerized following a RAFT polymerization to obtain Carboxyl-terminated PMPC. Then the end group was converted to an amino group with Ethylenediamine modification, followed by converting the amino group to maleimide group by Sulfo-SMCC to obtain maleimide-modified PMPC. (B) … Read more
The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Forty court documents containing information on associates of late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein – including former US presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton – have been made public. More than … Read more
Mutations of the tumor suppressor p53 not only have a growth-promoting effect on the cancer cells themselves, but also influence the cells in the tumor’s microenvironment. Scientists at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the Weizmann Institute in Israel have now shown that p53-mutated mouse breast cancer cells reprogram fat cells. The manipulated fat … Read more
