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Planets drifting unmoored through interstellar space, with no star to call home, may still have moons that are warm enough to support life, a new study has found.

Through a combination of a thick hydrogen atmosphere and internal heating…

Malaria killed about 610,000 people globally in 2024, with most deaths occurring in Africa, where young children remain the most vulnerable. Now, scientists report a potentially game-changing weakness they’ve found in the parasites that…

While most people witness only the familiar crack of thunder and flash of lightning from storms on Earth, brilliantly-colorful electric fireworks detonate much higher, in the thin air up to 55 miles overhead, easily seen from the ISS.

These brief…

A new kind of blood test promises to find cancer early – sometimes even before symptoms appear.

The pitch is compelling: a single sample of blood could scan the body for dozens of different cancers at once, catching disease at a stage when…

The European Space Agency said it is investigating a fireball that streaked across the skies of Europe on the weekend before reportedly punching a football-sized hole in the roof of a German home.

The fireball, which glowed for around six…

The bedraggled bumblebee queen seemed lifeless. Yet she was somehow alive — still breathing after being underwater for roughly a week in the lab. 

Did she manage to hold her breath for all that time, wondered ecological…

The United Kingdom’s largest research funder, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), has suspended some…

Mice

Six-to-eight-week-old female and male C57BL/6 J mice (IMSR_JAX:000664), as well as other strains, were purchased from The Jackson Laboratory. OT-II (IMSR_JAX:004194) and Thy1.1 (IMSR_JAX:000406) mice were crossed to generate OT-II Thy1.1…

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• 11 March 2026

Mice and in vivo studies

Kras^LSL-G12D/+Trp53^flox/flox mice (designated as KP)⁶⁰ were maintained on a mixed C57BL/6-129/Sv genetic background. Lung tumours were induced in young KP (2–3 months old; referred to as KP-Young) and old KP…