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There is a growing understanding of how aging affects the immune system, and there are some surprising discoveries that past 65 isn’t all downhill. health January 31, 2023 To Claire Wilson The immune system mainly deteriorates in old age, but…

From the hills of West Virginia to the rural plains of Australia, some of the world’s largest telescopes are picking up signals from distant civilizations. The search for extraterrestrial intelligent life, known as SETI, is an effort to find artificial-looking…

In some cases, it has become possible to genetically engineer the immune system to eliminate cancers, such as T-cell leukemia, that previously failed to respond to treatment. health January 31, 2023 To Michael Le Paige T cells and brain tumor…

Mammals live only once, but their lifespans vary in length. While some shrews can limp from this mortal coil in as little as 14 months, a bowhead whale can swim for more than two centuries in the Arctic Ocean. And…

tech startup Enigma Labs wants to turn UFO sightings into data science. In the past, people who saw strange lights flying around the sky had no choice but to tell a friend or call intelligence agencies. Soon, anyone with a…

Officials in San Francisco have called for a slower and more cautious rollout of self-driving cars, which are blocking traffic and hampering emergency services. technology January 31, 2023 To Matthew Sparks Cruise offers free rides in self-driving vehicles to non-employees…

Scientists have long known that the world is running out of time to meet international climate goals. Artificial intelligence is now coming to a similar conclusion. Groundbreaking new AI research finds it will take humans about a decade to beat…

When I was a child, my family lived in a suburb of Washington, DC. Most of the stars were invisible against the overhead glare from streetlights. At best, there was only a faint glimpse of the vague Milky Way. The…

Nearly 100 different types of amino acids have been observed in meteorites, but only 12 of the 20 essential to life have been discovered. I have. Although they all have a “left-handed” structure, abiotic processes create left-handed and right-handed molecules…

Conditions such as PCOS, endometriosis, and PMS are notoriously difficult to study, but recent advances in understanding and treatment have proven otherwise. health | | leader January 25, 2023 Katerina Kong/Shutterstock What do endometriosis, premenstrual syndrome, perimenopause, and polycystic ovary…