Science & Technology

DNA-based nanotechnology stimulates potent antitumor immune responses 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- September 10, 2020
Synthetic DNA nanovaccines enhance killer T cell immunity resulting in tumor control in preclinical studies

By David Aragorn
New quantum paradox throws the foundations of observed reality into question 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- September 9, 2020
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Perhaps not, some say.

By David Aragorn
Scientists find new way to fight most common childhood cancer 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- September 5, 2020
Researchers have made a discovery that could potentially lead to the development of a new treatment for the most common childhood cancer: acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

By David Aragorn
New Study Expands Breakthrough Listen Initiative’s Search for Intelligent Life 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- September 4, 2020
In a new study to be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a research team led by University of Manchester astronomers extended a sample of 1,327 stellar systems recently observed by the Breakthrough Listen Initiative by including additional 288,315 stars that also reside within the target fields of the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope in Australia — increasing the number of stars analyzed by a factor of more than 200. Their results suggest that less than 0.04% of stellar systems have the potential of hosting advanced civilizations with the equivalent or slightly more advanced radio technology than 21st century humans.

By David Aragorn
Biocompatible TeSex nano-alloys for PT/PA/CT/PET imaging-guided NIR-II-photothermal therapy 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- September 1, 2020
Nanotheranostics, integrating diagnostic and therapeutic functions by nanoplatform, exhibits a great potential in precision and personalized medicine, and also raises the requirement on multifunctional nanomaterials in pursuit of both good biocompatibility and high theranostic performance.

By David Aragorn
Submarine could explore seas of huge Saturn moon Titan 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- August 29, 2020
The sub could be ready to launch in the 2030s, researchers said.

By David Aragorn
Musk’s Neuralink venture unveils pig with computer chip in brain 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 29, 2020
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s neuroscience startup Neuralink on Friday unveiled a pig that has had a coin-sized computer chip in its brain for two months, demonstrating an early step toward the goal of curing human diseases with the same type of implant.

By David Aragorn
Half the atoms in the planet could be digital data by 2245 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 27, 2020
Changing the world, bit by bit

By David Aragorn
If bacteria band together, they can survive for years in space 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- August 27, 2020
Dead outer microbes protect inner ones in clumps attached to the International Space Station

By David Aragorn
Tantalizing oddity found in exotic atom—but physicists aren’t hyping it 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 26, 2020
A property of positronium—an exotic atom consisting of an electron bound to its antimatter partner, a positron—differs significantly from theoretical predictions, a team of physicists reports.

By David Aragorn