Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study led by Penn State researchers finds that U.S. firms actively engaged in creating innovative products or processes are more likely to expand into international markets. The findings, which apply to both rural and urban companies, could inform efforts to boost U.S. exports. The team—led by Luyi Han, a … Read more
HFB-produced NK92 cells yielded large quantities of small NK92-EVs. Credit: Journal of Extracellular Vesicles (2023). DOI: 10.1002/jev2.12387 A team of uOttawa Faculty of Medicine researchers have developed a path to a biomanufacturing process that could potentially transform how Canada generates immunotherapeutic materials—specifically natural killer cells and extracellular vesicles (EVs)—to fuel tomorrow’s novel cancer treatments. How … Read more
One of the computer-generated images of Jupiter’s moon Callisto that was used to test the capabilities of Juice’s engineering model in March 2024. When Juice’s flight model passes the real Callisto in 2031 and offers scientists a tantalising glimpse at the mysterious, cratered alien world, this is how it will appear to the spacecraft’s navigation camera. Credit: ESA/Airbus … Read more
Drawings illustrating (a) the location of the poison gland and Dufour’s gland in Formica oreas worker ants, and (b) the olfactometer used in tick bioassays. For bioassays, the lateral chambers of the olfactometer received a piece of filter paper treated with a treatment or control stimulus, and a damp cotton ball to increase relative humidity. … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The majority of California’s reservoirs are above their historic average levels following the end of two wet winters. The state’s largest reservoirs, Shasta Lake and Lake Oroville, were measured at a respective 118% and 122% of their averages for early April, according to data from the California Department of Water Resources. … Read more
Images created with the new FLASH-PAINT microscopy technique, developed at Yale by the laboratory of Joerg Bewersdorf, PhD. Credit: Bewersdorf Laboratory, Yale University Imagine tuning into a football game, but all of the players are invisible except for the two quarterbacks. Without being able to see the orchestrated movements of the full teams, this would … Read more
In this grab taken from video released by the Roscosmos space corporation on Thursday, April 11, 2024 an Angara-A5 rocket lifts off from Vostochny space launch facility outside the city of Tsiolkovsky, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the city of Blagoveshchensk in the far eastern Amur region, Russia. Russia on Thursday successfully test-launched a … Read more
Google Earth view of Laguna Librón, Cordillera Blanca, annotated with mass movement flow from surrounding slopes into glacial lakes, with the possible chain reaction of outburst floods into the lower lake Laguna Librón and then the valley below. Credit: Wood et al. 2024. Glacial lakes form when meltwater is trapped behind a dam, usually glacial … Read more
Dotson Ice Shelf, Amundsen Sea, Antarctica. Credit: Taewook Park A new study published in Nature Communications has revealed that the interplay between meandering ocean currents and the ocean floor induces upwelling velocity, transporting warm water to shallower depths. This mechanism contributes substantially to the melting of ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea of West Antarctica. … Read more
The moon over Tokyo on September 10, 2022. A lucky Japanese astronaut will become the first non-American to set foot on the moon during one of NASA’s upcoming Artemis missions, US President Joe Biden announced Wednesday. The offer to Japan—an opportunity many nations have long dreamed of—came as part of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s state … Read more
