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- First black hole ever detected is more massive than we thought
- Ancient relic points to a turning point in Earth's history 42,000 years ago
- Real-time dialogue with a dreaming person is possible
- Cone snail venom shows potential for treating severe malaria
- New route to forming complex crystals
- Learning from prostate cancer-detecting dogs to improve diagnostic tests
- Unusual breeding behavior reported in treefrogs for the first time
- New Australian fossil lizard
| First black hole ever detected is more massive than we thought Posted: 18 Feb 2021 11:28 AM PST New observations of the first black hole ever detected have led astronomers to question what they know about the Universe's most mysterious objects. The research shows the system known as Cygnus X-1 contains the most massive stellar-mass black hole ever detected without the use of gravitational waves. |
| Ancient relic points to a turning point in Earth's history 42,000 years ago Posted: 18 Feb 2021 11:27 AM PST The temporary breakdown of Earth's magnetic field 42,000 years ago sparked major climate shifts that led to global environmental change and mass extinctions, a new international study shows. |
| Real-time dialogue with a dreaming person is possible Posted: 18 Feb 2021 08:40 AM PST Dreams take us to what feels like a different reality. They also happen while we're fast asleep. So, you might not expect that a person in the midst of a vivid dream would be able to perceive questions and provide answers to them. But a new study shows that, in fact, they can. |
| Cone snail venom shows potential for treating severe malaria Posted: 18 Feb 2021 06:45 AM PST Using venom from a cone snail, a new study suggests these conotoxins may potentially treat malaria. The study provides important leads toward the development of new and cost-effective anti-adhesion or blockade-therapy drugs aimed at counteracting the pathology of severe malaria. Similarly, mitigation of emerging diseases like COVID-19 also could benefit from conotoxins as potential inhibitors of protein-protein interactions as treatment. Venom peptides from cone snails has the potential to treat myriad diseases using blockage therapies. |
| New route to forming complex crystals Posted: 18 Feb 2021 06:45 AM PST When materials reach extremely small size scales, strange things begin to happen. One of those phenomena is the formation of mesocrystals. |
| Learning from prostate cancer-detecting dogs to improve diagnostic tests Posted: 17 Feb 2021 12:11 PM PST New research demonstrates the ability of dogs to detect aggressive prostate cancer from urine samples and suggests that an artificial neural network could learn from this olfactory ability, with an eye toward replicating it in novel detection tools. |
| Unusual breeding behavior reported in treefrogs for the first time Posted: 17 Feb 2021 12:11 PM PST Paranapiacaba Treefrogs mate and lay spawn in small pools of water inside the tanks of bromeliad plants, researchers report. The 3 cm-long tadpoles must then make their way to a stream to complete development. |
| Posted: 16 Feb 2021 03:59 PM PST Some of Australia's most famous animals - wombat, platypus, kangaroos and the extinct marsupial tiger thylacine - have been traced back to their fossil ancestors in remarkable finds in central South Australia. Now a remote expedition to a large inland salt lake in 2017 has sifted through remains unearthed in Namba Formation deposits to describe a tiny new skink, an ancestor of Australia's well-known bluetongue lizards. |
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