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NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) spacecraft is currently cruising to Mars. On May 22, 2018, it performed its first course correction guiding it to the Red Planet. NASA’s InSight spacecraft is on its way to Mars. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech. InSight will be …

57-milion-year-old leaf fossils from eastern India suggest that the worldwide-distributed morning glory family (Convolvulaceae), which includes sweet potatoes and many other plants, originated in the late Paleocene epoch in the East Gondwana land mass that became part of Asia. The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas). Image credit: Llez / CC BY-SA …

A group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed an injectable nanoparticle formulation of the inactivated polio vaccine that releases multiple pulses of stable antigen over time. This new vaccine could make it easier to immunize children in remote regions of Pakistan and other countries where …

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most complex device ever built by humanity, and it’s allowed us to explore previously unknowable realms of physics. However, there are still some missing pieces to the puzzle. Scientists hope that a comparatively modest new instrument near the LHC could spot those missing …

Modern medicine has made incredible progress in the treatment of HIV. Years ago, infection with HIV would almost certainly lead to developing AIDS, but treatment can now keep the disease at bay. Even with daily antiretroviral therapy (ART), the pathogen continues to hide in a patient’s cells. Researchers from Japan’s …

An international team of researchers led by Dr. Jean-Lou Justine of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, has identified at least five species of invasive hammerhead flatworms living in metropolitan France, a few European countries, and overseas French territories in three continents. Justine et al report new findings obtained mainly …

A rare species of orangutan, a majestic tree, a beetle that looks like part of an ant, the world’s deepest-living fish, and the fossil of a marsupial lion that lived in Australia in the Oligocene and Miocene epochs are among the 10 most amazing species chosen by experts at the …

In a research article published in the journal Heart, a team of researchers from China and the UK reports that a moderate level of egg consumption (up to 1?egg/day) was associated with a lower incidence of cardiovascular disease in a Chinese population. This prospective cohort study of the general Chinese …

A team of neuroscientists from the University of California, San Francisco, and Loma Linda University has identified the first potential treatment for the brain damage caused by exposure to galactic cosmic rays. Novel drugs could one day protect astronauts on deep-space missions from dangerous cosmic radiation. Image credit: Jonny Lindner. …

An analysis of a complete skeleton of an early domestic donkey from the Early Bronze Age (2800-2600 BC) deposits at the site of the Biblical city ‘Gath of the Philistines’ (modern Tell es-Safi) in central Israel demonstrates that the animal was being ridden or managed with the use of a …