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NLR Doubles Terpene Yields Using Cell-Free Enzymes
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Laboratory of the Rockies are developing 'cell-free' biomanufacturing — using engineered enzymes alone, with no living cells, to convert plant bi
Study reveals genetics of water-to-land transition
A 2025 Nature study comparing genomes of more than 150 animal species reveals the shared and lineage-specific genetic changes that allowed animals to repeatedly transition from water to land over the
Big Bee Project Creates 1M Images, AI Trait Data
The Big Bee Project, a 13‑institution collaboration led by UC Santa Barbara, is digitizing over a million bee specimens with AI and crowdsourced measurements, creating unprecedented trait datasets for
Chicago team maps 75% of mouse cell types body‑wide
Researchers at the University of Chicago have unveiled a whole‑body spatial transcriptomics platform that maps gene expression across all mouse organs and roughly three‑quarters of its cell types, ena
Study: Ticks Survive Up to 25 Days on Home Floors
An Ohio State University study provides the first scientific evidence that two common tick species can survive one to three weeks on typical home flooring, overturning assumptions that hitchhiking tic
Lifetime Stress Drives Abnormal Behaviors in Lab Monkeys
A new study of 240 rhesus macaques at two US research centers finds that abnormal repetitive behaviors like pacing and hair-plucking are driven by cumulative lifetime stress, not just current housing
Physicists create 'laser tornado' with liquid crystals
Physicists from the University of Warsaw and collaborators have created "optical tornadoes" — light waves with spiraling phase and rotating polarization — inside a liquid-crystal microcavity, achievin
ASU’s Heyden Introduces Rapid Protein Vibration Method
Arizona State University researchers led by Matthias Heyden have created a reliable method to extract low‑frequency protein vibrations from nanosecond‑scale simulations, dramatically accelerating conf
NASA's Mike Fincke Lost Speech 20 Minutes in Space
Four-time space flier Mike Fincke revealed he suddenly lost his ability to speak for roughly 20 minutes while eating dinner aboard the ISS on Jan. 7, prompting NASA's first medical evacuation and leav
White House shares drug pricing draft with pharma
The White House has drafted drug pricing legislation and is circulating it to more than a dozen major pharmaceutical companies, with the text closely mirroring the administration's prior voluntary dea
JWST Uncovers Aurora Heat Loop Driving Saturn's Spin
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists captured unprecedented infrared data of Saturn’s aurora over a full Saturnian day, revealing a self‑sustaining heat‑wind‑current feedback loop that exp
Würzburg researchers map quantum Hall to polaritons
Physicists at the University of Würzburg have engineered a hybrid light‑matter system that reproduces quantum Hall and spin Hall transport using polaritons, opening a route to topological photonic dev
UK Physics Grants Slashed 70% Amid Talent Exodus
UK particle physics research faces a crisis after funding cuts slashed grants by nearly 70%, threatening postdoctoral positions, department closures, and the country’s global scientific standing, with
Novo Nordisk Revamps Board, FDA OKs Kresladi
Novo Nordisk reshapes its board and expands Wegovy cash‑pay access while the FDA greenlights Rocket Pharma’s ultra‑rare gene therapy Kresladi, granting a priority review voucher and marking a strategi
PARP Inhibitors Get Trapped in Tumor Lysosomes, Study Finds
Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences have shown that some PARP inhibitor cancer drugs get trapped in tumor cell lysosomes, creating slow-release reservoirs that leave some cancer cell
Non-Pathogenic Gut Bacteria Inject Proteins Into Cells
Researchers at Helmholtz Munich discovered that non-harmful gut bacteria use syringe-like molecular machines called type III secretion systems to inject proteins directly into human cells, actively sh
Physicist Anthony Leggett Dies, Nobel Quantum Theorist
Nobel laureate physicist Anthony Leggett, famed for his theory of superfluid helium‑3 and the Leggett‑Garg inequality, died on 8 March, leaving a lasting impact on quantum physics and a generation of
Smoothing Elective Hospital Admissions: $200B Savings
Healthcare operations expert Eugene Litvak argues that evenly distributing elective hospital admissions across the week could save an estimated $200 billion annually and thousands of lives, yet hospit
Waist measure flags sarcopenic obesity's 83% death risk
A Brazil‑UK study found that adults over 50 with both excess abdominal fat and low muscle mass face an 83% higher risk of death, and that simple waist‑circumference and lean‑mass estimates can flag th
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Vaccine Agenda Faces Roadblocks
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s controversial vaccine skepticism is creating significant hurdles for the Trump administration, leading to critical health job vacancies and a recent court inju
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