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University of Queensland researchers have developed a drug that activates a hard-to-target immune receptor — a breakthrough which could lead to new treatments for neurodegenerative conditions like Motor Neurone Disease (MND). In an international collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology, The University of Tokyo and Sungkyunkwan University, the researchers were able to uncover the…

Robert Laidlow is as at home in the realms of science and technology as he is in the world of classical music. As this NMC debut album demonstrates, his intricate, wildly imaginative work is eminently approachable, even if the core concepts are highly complex. Robert Laidlow: Reality Eaters Warp, a terse, 12-minute piano concerto, proposes…

Spinal cord injuries have devastating consequences and impact more than 15 million people worldwide. Damage to spinal nerves can lead to pain, weakness, and even tetraplegia, where all four limbs are severely impaired. Part of the reason these injuries have no disease-modifying treatments is that nerves cannot be revived after they die – or at…

There’s something wrong with the center of the Milky Way. For decades, astronomers have puzzled over a vast population of antimatter particles, or positrons, that collide with electrons to annihilate in flashes of gamma rays around the center of our galaxy. The problem is that known astrophysical sources cannot account for how many positrons the…

Extreme coastal flooding events are occurring far more frequently in our warming world than ever before, threatening countless communities that will only become more vulnerable as climate change intensifies. A recent study found that once-in-a-century flooding events now strike on our planet about once a decade. The study, published June 10 in the journal Nature…

Researchers at the Advanced Science Research Center at the City University of New York Graduate Center (CUNY-ASRC) have demonstrated something English mathematician and physicist Sir Roger Penrose predicted over 50 years ago. According to Penrose, it would be possible to extract energy from a rapidly spinning (Kerr) black hole by inserting an object into the…