Before trips to Mars, we need better protection from cosmic rays
Outside Earth's protection, space travellers will be routinely exposed....
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Outside Earth's protection, space travellers will be routinely exposed....
An online video has gone viral showing 93-year-old Dr. Marshall Lindheimer, who has dementia, hearing about his groundbreaking research to treat and diagnose the pregnancy condition of preeclampsia....
Article URL: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/white-house-pushes-to-dismantle-leading-climate-and-weather-research-center Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46405183 Points: 17 # Comm...
Various organizations teamed up to get the "cold-stunned" sea turtles out of frigid Cape Cod waters....
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01989 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46402611 Points: 3 # Comments: 0...
As a space scientist, I predict that the company will soon have to reckon with a growing problem: space debris....
Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI Five years ago, Tim Cannon, a cancer doctor in Virginia, saw that his colon cancer patients were getting younger and their cancer was more aggressive. He had just diagnosed t...
An HHS official says the agency has "frozen all child care payments" to the state of Minnesota after allegations of fraudulent day care centers there....
More than 40 million are on alert as the next winter storm is forecast to bring inclement weather from the Dakotas into northern New England over the coming days....
Article URL: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/01/429411/how-hungry-fat-cells-could-someday-starve-cancer-death Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46409928 Points: 8 # Comments: 0...
New clinical trial aims to use whole, light-inactivated tumor cells for immunotherapy...
Chinese researchers have proposed a simple yet powerful theory to explain one of physics’ oldest puzzles: why time only moves forward and why travelling to the past remains impossible. Physicist Cai Q...
Starlink satellites with solar arrays deployed. | Image: SpaceX After one of its Starlink satellites exploded and another narrowly avoided colliding with a Chinese satellite, SpaceX says it will lower...
Elon Musk's Neuralink startup develops brain-chip implants. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk is planning to ramp up production of his Neuralink brain chips in 2026. Neuralink develops...
Article URL: https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-develop-new-fish-inspired-filter-that-removes-over-99-of-microplastics/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46390041 Points: 3 # Comment...
Hi HN, I’m a solo dev building a clinical search engine to help my wife (a resident physician) and her colleagues. The Problem: Current tools (UpToDate/OpenEvidence) are expensive, slow, or increasing...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Tory Bruno has abruptly resigned as CEO of United Launch Alliance. ✓ He served in the role for 12 years. ...
📋 Key Facts ✓ New research suggests complex cognitive challenges slow neural aging by years. ✓ Strategy video games like StarCraft II a...
Research shows what canines really can sense — and how social media and human projection fuel belief in their supernatural abilities....
Researchers have developed a system that brings multiple objects at different distances into sharp focus. | Image: The Verge via Yingsi Qin, Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan, Matthew O’Toole | Carnegie Mello...