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Rain on Greenland Summit is a First
Posted in Science on 6th Sep, 2021
by Alex Muller
Rain fell on the highest part of Greenland ice sheet last week for the first time on record.
Reusable spaceplane demonstrator completes 5 test flights in 3 days
Posted in Hardware, Science on 5th Sep, 2021
by Alex Muller
"Dawn is focused on sustainable and scalable access to space and our Mk-II vehicle is entirely reusable"
Radiation could restrict crewed Mars missions to less than four years
Posted in Science on 5th Sep, 2021
by Alex Muller
An international team of scientists has calculated that a crewed mission to Mars should only last a maximum of four years if the astronauts' health isn't to be endangered by prolonged exposure to cosmic radiation.
Molecular Farming Means the Next Vaccine Could Be Edible and Grown in a Plant
Posted in Medicine, Science on 5th Sep, 2021
by Alex Muller
Imagine that by eating an orange you are getting vaccinated against the latest virus. That’s one of the goals of molecular farming, a vision to have plants synthesize medications and vaccines.
New research has implications for developing cancer therapies targeting mutant p53 protein
Posted in Medicine on 4th Sep, 2021
by Alex Muller
The tumor suppressor protein p53 is mutated in more than half of all human cancers. Several drugs that potentially can restore mutant p53 to its normal cancer-killing function are in clinical investigation.