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Sounding the alarm: ESA introduces space environment ‘health index’
Space Safety 22/10/2025
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27 likesThe congestion and pollution of Earth orbit is quickly getting worse. We need to be able to quantify how our behaviour impacts the orbital environment in…
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Bizarre Crystals in Titan’s Lakes Could Break a Fundamental Rule of Chemistry : ScienceAlert
A discovery about Saturn’s moon Titan has challenged what scientists thought was a basic rule of chemistry.
There, in the extreme cold, some supposedly fundamentally incompatible molecules may combine to form solids that have never been seen…
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Satellites watch glaciers melting in Patagonia photo of the day for Oct. 22, 2025
For decades, satellites orbiting hundreds of miles above Earth have provided scientists with a crucial vantage point to monitor our planet’s frozen landscapes. Missions like NASA’s Landsat and the European Space Agency‘s Copernicus Sentinel are…
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Drugs That Lower Cholesterol May Also Reduce Dementia Risk, Says Huge New Study : ScienceAlert
Reducing cholesterol levels might not just be good for your heart; they might also be effective at reducing your risk of dementia, according to a comprehensive meta-analysis involving close to a million participants.
The results imply that…
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Transcriptional interferences ensure one olfactory receptor per ant neuron
Hanchate, N. K. et al. Single-cell transcriptomics reveals receptor transformations during olfactory neurogenesis. Science 350, 1251–1255 (2015).
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You May Not Be on The Best Antidepressant For You. Here’s How to Check. : ScienceAlert
Millions of people worldwide take antidepressants. While these drugs can be very effective in treating mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety, they can also cause a range of physical side-effects – including weight gain,…
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Designing allosteric modulators to change GPCR G protein subtype selectivity
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HEK293T/17 (CRL-11268, RRID: CVCL_1926) cells were obtained from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC). G-protein-deficient HEK293 cells (ΔGNAS, ΔGNAL, ΔGNAQ, ΔGNA11, ΔGNA12 and ΔGNA13, HEK293 clone 38 (ref. 54) and…
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Cryogenic X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy for battery interfaces
Oyakhire, S. T., Gong, H., Cui, Y., Bao, Z. & Bent, S. F. An X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy primer for solid electrolyte interphase characterization in lithium metal anodes. ACS Energy Lett. 7, 2540–2546 (2022).
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Study Suggests COVID MRNA Vaccines Help Fight Cancer Too : ScienceAlert
The COVID-19 mRNA-based vaccines that saved 2.5 million lives globally during the pandemic could help spark the immune system to fight cancer. This is the surprising takeaway of a new study that we and our colleagues published in the…
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