Satabhaya is the hardest-hit of several rural idylls along the seafront in India’s Odisha, a state that has also been battered in recent decades by tropical cyclones and floods of increasing ferocity. The gentle roar of the ocean lulled Indian mother-of-two Banita Behra to sleep each night, until one day the encroaching tide reached her … Read more
Pavlo Gonchar | Lightrocket | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Pfizer‘s treatment for a rare genetic bleeding disorder, making it the company’s first-ever gene therapy to win clearance in the U.S. The agency greenlit the drug, which will be marketed as Beqvez, for adults with moderate to severe hemophilia B … Read more
The world’s first personalised mRNA cancer jab for melanoma — which also has the potential to stop lung, bladder and kidney cancer — is being tested in British patients. The jab, which offers hope of a cure, is custom-built for each person in just a few weeks. It works by telling the body to hunt … Read more
Depiction of the structural changes during 4-step unidirectional isomerization of 1st generation aldehyde motor with key features above the reaction arrows. Starting from top left, UV light induces photoisomerization to reach the top-right state with more than 95 percent efficiency. This top-right state transforms by a unidirectional thermal ‘helix inversion’ step (THI) to the version … Read more
Kelly Doucet won’t be forgetting her one-year wedding anniversary anytime soon. Instead of having a romantic dinner with her husband, Steve, the Yarmouth, N.S., woman was in hospital recovering from painful surgery. She’s now warning others that symptoms of invasive group A strep should not be ignored. “If we had waited, Steve would be planning … Read more
A Long March-2F carrier rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-18 spacecraft and a crew of three astronauts, lifts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. A spaceship carrying three astronauts from China’s Shenzhou-18 mission safely docked at Tiangong space station Friday, state-run media reported, the latest step in Beijing’s space program that aims to send astronauts to … Read more
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, right, and Suni Williams speak to the media after they arrived at the Kennedy Space Center, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The two test pilots will launch aboard Boeing’s Starliner capsule atop an Atlas rocket to the International Space Station, scheduled for liftoff on May 6, 2024. Credit: … Read more
The researchers investigated crystal structure and properties of perovskite-RbNbO3 prepared at 4 GPa. Single-crystal XRD analysis revealed RbNbO3 exhibits the same non-centrosymmetric space group as ferroelectrics BaTiO3 and KNbO3. Credit: Ayako Yamamoto from SIT, Japan Capacitors are crucial components in electronic devices such as smartphones and computers. They are made of dielectric materials that polarize … Read more
HXK, SnRK1 and TOR signaling networks in plant growth and development. Credit: The authors Sugar signaling is one of the most important regulatory signals for plant growth and development, and its metabolic network contains many regulatory factors. Sugar signaling molecules regulate cellular activities and organismal development by interacting with other intrinsic regulators and environmental cues. … Read more
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is shown in a clean room at the Astrotech Space Operations facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 8, 2022. DSOC’s gold-capped flight laser transceiver can be seen, near center, attached to the spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky Riding aboard NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, the agency’s Deep Space Optical Communications … Read more
