Thomas d’Halluin, Managing Partner of Airbus Ventures, at Hangar One of NASA Ames Research Center’s Moffett Field in California. Airbus Ventures Airbus Ventures, one of the most prolific investors in space startups, has raised a $155 million fund that it plans to deploy across the burgeoning space sector, as well as the broader “deep tech” … Read more
Credit: Cell (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.08.020 A team of international researchers at the University of Oxford (Oxford) and NTU Singapore, has discovered a new process for repairing damaged DNA that is particularly relevant for patients undergoing colorectal cancer treatments. Reporting their finding in the journal Cell, the researchers describe a new process in DNA repair in … Read more
Polaris Dawn commander Jared Isaacman emerges from SpaceX’s Dragon capsule during a spacewalk on Sept. 12, 2024. SpaceX SpaceX pulled off its first spacewalk in the early hours of Thursday morning, in a historic first for a company. The marquee event of the private Polaris Dawn mission went smoothly, with two of the crew members … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The personal carbon footprint of the richest people in society is grossly underestimated, both by the rich themselves and by those on middle and lower incomes, no matter which country they come from. At the same time, both the rich and the poor drastically overestimate the carbon footprint of the poorest … Read more
Moderna headquarters, exterior view, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Plexi Images | GHI | UCG | Universal Images Group | Getty Images Moderna on Thursday said it plans to cut around $1.1 billion in expenses by 2027 and win approvals for several new products as it charts a path forward after the rapid decline of its Covid business. … Read more
The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS), one of the many accelerators in CERN’s complex that will benefit from the EPA project. Credit: CERN As particle accelerator technology moves into the high-luminosity era, the need for extreme precision and unprecedented collision energy keeps growing. Given also the Laboratory’s desire to reduce energy consumption and costs, the design … Read more
The new inexpensive smartphone-based digital holographic microscope provides a portable way to perform 3D measurements. Credit: Yuki Nagahama, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Researchers have developed a new smartphone-based digital holographic microscope that enables precision 3D measurements. The highly portable and inexpensive microscope could help bring 3D measurement capabilities to a broader range of … Read more
Model of MYC2 in the modulation of fatty acid and flavonoid biosynthesis under MeJA treatment. In the early stage of olive fruit development, accumulation of MeJA could decrease the expression of MYC2, which could repress fatty acid biosynthesis by downregulating the expression of BCCP2 though binding to the G-box within the promoter. Conversely, MYC2 was … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Online dating sites have become one of the more popular means for people to meet each other and explore the potential for a romantic relationship. But did you know that it’s the size of the online dating pool that could make or break your own quest for love? A new study … Read more
“One Saturday morning at the end of August, I wake up here in Rio, look at my phone, and for the first time since I lived in China, where I was correspondent before I came here, I look at my phone and Twitter doesn’t work.” The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, tells Michael Safi … Read more
