A team of researchers from Japan, Germany and the Democratic Republic of the Congo has identified an alkaloid compound in a Congolese species of liana that inhibits the survival of pancreatic cancer cells under nutrient-deprived conditions. Ancistrocladus sp. Image credit: Eigenes Werk / CC BY-SA 3.0. Human pancreatic cancer cells …

 NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission consists of four identical spacecraft that orbit around Earth through the dynamic magnetic system surrounding the planet to study a type of space explosion called magnetic reconnection, a common event throughout the Universe that occurs when magnetic fields change by connecting and then breaking apart. …

After overcoming 20-times Grand Slam winner Federer in the semi-finals in London on Saturday, the 21-year-old Zverev beat world number one Djokovic 6-4 6-3 the next day to claim the biggest crown of his career so far. Beating Novak Djokovic in the final was a big upset and a big …

  When Microsoft committed to developing Windows as a service, it declared that users could look forward to an unending stream of feature improvements and updates over time as the OS evolved. The company has kept that promise for most of the past three years — each new major Windows …

Integrating fixes for Spectre and Meltdown has been a long, slow process throughout 2018. We’ve seen new vulnerabilities popping up on a fairly regular cadence, with Intel and other vendors rolling out solutions as quickly as they can be developed. To date, most of these fixes haven’t had a significant …

We’re all used to the notion of proving our identity in the physical world. We present driver’s licenses and passports as needed as a matter of course. The facts on the identity document, like our age, are considered verified because we trust our government to have checked them somehow. In …

SpaceX has already made spaceflight shorty many times, but it’s skipping today’s record-setting launch. The company had been scheduled to launch a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 64 small satellites into orbit (known as SSO-A), but that wasn’t the historic part. It would have been the third launch for this particular …

An international team of scientists, led by University of Texas and Karolinska Institutet researchers, has created a small anti-inflammatory molecule with a new mechanism of action. Model of TH5487-mediated inhibition of proinflammatory gene expression: inflammation, at its onset and throughout its progress, is associated with generation of reactive oxygen species, …

From studying rock formations from satellite images, planetary researchers know that hundreds of craters across the Martian surface were once filled with water. More than 200 of these paleolakes have outlet canyons tens to hundreds of miles long and several miles wide carved by water flowing from the lakes. A …

Two early-stage AI programs are joining forces because, even in the world of artificial intelligence, two heads are better than one. Hong Kong-based accelerator Zeroth — which recently grabbed a majority investment from Animoca Brands — and Deepcore, a Japanese incubator and fund that is part of the SoftBank group, are …