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The Falcon Heavy hype has been building for years, reaching all the way back to CEO Elon Musk’s announcement of the rocket in 2011. After years of development and a few last minute delays, the Falcon Heavy is operational. SpaceX successfully launched the rocket from Cape Canaveral today, Feb. 6, …

Scientists at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine have discovered a link between rheumatoid arthritis and Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis, a pathogenic bacterium found in about half the cows in the U.S. The study is published in the journal Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. This is the …

An international team of scientists led by the National University of Singapore’s Cardiovascular Research Institute has discovered that chondroitin sulfates — a group of molecules normally found only in connective tissues — accumulate and cause inflammation in the hearts of patients with heart failure. The research is published in the …

Woodpeckers experience forces up to 1,200-1,400 g while pecking. It is assumed due to evolutionary adaptations, the woodpecker is immune to brain injury. This assumption has led to the use of the woodpecker as a model in the development of sports safety equipment such as football helmets. However, a new …

Physicists from the TOTEM experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have uncovered evidence of a subatomic quasiparticle dubbed an ‘odderon’ that — until now — had only been theorized to exist. The results will be published in two papers in the journal Physical Review D. View of the tunnel where …

Injecting amounts of two immune-stimulating agents directly into tumors in multiple types of mouse cancer models can eliminate all traces of cancer, according to a new study published in the journal Science Translational Medicine. Dual immunotherapy led to shrinkage of distant tumors and long-term survival of the animals, even in …

Cholecalciferol, also known as vitamin D3, can significantly restore the damage to the cardiovascular system caused by several diseases, including hypertension, diabetes and atherosclerosis, according to new research from Ohio University. Vitamin D3 may be effective in the treatment of hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases, including heart failure, myocardial infarction, …

The 200 million-year-old specimen is only the second known example of Wahlisaurus massarae, a species of ichthyosaur announced recently by a University of Manchester paleontologist. Reconstruction of Wahlisaurus massarae. Image credit: James McKay. Ichthyosaurs were predatory sea-going reptiles that ranged in size from 1 to 69 feet (0.3-21 m) long. …

A new panoramic image from Curiosity provides a sweeping vista of the interior and rim of Gale Crater, including much of the rover’s route during its first five-and-a-half years on Mars and features up to about 50 miles (85 km) away. Wide-angle panorama from ridge in Mars’ Gale Crater. Image …

Researchers have for the first time mapped the entire genome of the Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata), one of the most challenging agricultural pests to manage. The results appear in the journal Scientific Reports. The Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata). Image credit: Ben Pélissié / University of Wisconsin – Madison. …