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Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital have built a battery that powered two swallowable medical capsules inside living pigs and then dissolved in the animals' digestive tracts. Pills…
Beacon Therapeutics said on Sept. 21 that its experimental gene therapy for X-linked retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited eye disease with no approved treatment, met the main goal of a controlled trial…
Daily vitamin C did not slow the growth of abnormal blood cell clones in people with precancerous blood conditions or early-stage blood cancers, the EVITA trial reported in the journal Cancer. Its…
Sand hoppers on a southern California beach dig up to 10.38 kilograms of dry sand per square meter per day, according to field measurements published Sept. 16 in the journal JGR: Earth Surface. The…
The airways clean themselves. A thin film of mucus catches the dust, smoke and bacteria that arrive with every breath, and millions of microscopic hairs, called cilia, beat in unison to sweep that…
Bernard Muller studies what happens to a voice when the nervous system behind it fails. He also lives it: ALS has taken his own speech, and he works through an eye-gaze interface, as the paper…
About 500 iron bars weighing an estimated 1,035 kilograms, dug out of a gravel pit beside the Danube in Upper Austria, are the largest mass find of prehistoric iron bars so far known in Europe, Peter…
Ol Doinyo Lengai, an active volcano in northern Tanzania, swelled without erupting between March 2022 and August 2023, and a team led by D. Sarah Stamps of Virginia Tech reports that the best…
A team led by researchers at Université Paris-Saclay has dated the iron-rich crusts that cap a plateau in northern Malawi, finding a continuous span of mineral ages running from 397 million years…
Physicists at Northwestern University report that a standard conclusion in network science, that variation among a network's parts makes the whole less stable, is an artifact of simplified models and…
A protein named REAP1 links two families of molecular switches inside plant cells, and plants need that link to make working pollen, a Japanese research team reports in Nature Plants. Cells run on…
A protein called AP2-HS is required before stress in human blood can push the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum into the form that mosquitoes pick up, researchers at the Barcelona Institute for…