A bundle of detritus was first spotted on July 12th by a rover’s front left hazard avoidance camera. Humans have dumped over 7000 kg of trash on Mars. Humans have been exploring Mar’s surface for more than 5 decades now. After 14 missions, 18 human-made objects have landed on Mars leaving 7000kg of trash on […]
Scientists
Two scientists from US, one from Britain get Nobel Medicine prize for learning how cells use oxygen
The 2019 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded on Monday to two Americans and a British scientist for their discoveries in how the body’s cells sense and react to oxygen levels. Their work has paved the way for new strategies to fight anemia, cancer and other diseases, the Nobel Committee of the Karolinska Institute said […]
Scientists seek out limit to human endurance
US scientists who studied the performance of myriad athletes — including adventurous souls who spent five long months running across the United States — have come up with an estimate of the absolute physiological boundary of human endurance. The conclusions are pretty technical but the study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances highlights one […]
Scientists in new push to control cancer before curing it
Cancer scientists in Britain are launching what they call the world’s first “Darwinian” drug development programme in a bid to get ahead of cancer’s ability to become resistant to even the newest treatments and recur in many patients. While not abandoning the search for an ultimate cure, the “anti-evolution” project will re-focus on turning cancer […]
Scientists find cocaine in shrimps from UK rivers
Scientists found cocaine in freshwater shrimps when testing for chemicals in UK rivers. Researchers from King’s College London, working with the University of Suffolk, tested at 15 sites across Suffolk and found cocaine at all of them. The study, published in Environment International, found other illicit drugs such as ketamine, pesticides and pharmaceuticals were also […]
study finds Major emperor penguin breeding ground barren since 2016
For the past three years, virtually nothing has hatched at Antarctica’s second biggest breeding grounds for emperor penguins and the start of this year is looking just as bleak, a new study found. Usually 15,000 to 24,000 breeding pairs of emperor penguins flock yearly to a breeding site at Halley Bay, considered a safe place […]
Scientists turn brain signals into speech, giving hope to those who cannot talk
People robbed of the ability to talk due to a stroke or another medical condition may soon have real hope of regaining a voice thanks to technology that harnesses brain activity to produce synthesized speech, researchers said on Wednesday. Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco, implanted electrodes into the brains of volunteers and […]
German scientists create see-through human organs
Researchers in Germany have created transparent human organs using a new technology that could pave the way to print three-dimensional body parts such as kidneys for transplants. Scientists led by Ali Erturk at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich have developed a technique that uses a solvent to make organs such as the brain and kidneys […]
Artificial gravity could help patients prevent muscle loss, scientists say
Patients could one day be spun around in machine which simulates the effects of gravity to prevent muscle wastage during long hospital stays, scientists say. A new study will explore what happens when volunteers, subjected to 60 days of bed rest, spend 30 minutes per day strapped to a human centrifuge. The research will be […]
Chinese scientists create monkeys with human brain genes
Chinese scientists have implanted human brain genes into monkeys, in a study intended to provide insights into the unique evolution of human intelligence. Researchers inserted human versions of MCPH1, a gene that scientists believe plays a role in the development of the human brain, into 11 rhesus monkeys. They found the monkeys’ brains — like […]