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At left is an image of the galaxy cluster Abell 2744; marked are three lensed images of the distant background galaxy Abell2744-QSO1 (QSO1), a type of galaxy known as a Little Red Dot. Credit: Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, Lukas Furtak (Ben-Gurion University); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) For decades, astronomers have pictured galaxies and their…
A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on July 25, carrying two dozen Starlink satellites into orbit. The launch was part of SpaceX’s Starlink Group 17-51 mission, one of several Starlink batches the company sent to low Earth orbit that week. Credit: SpaceX via X Rocket launches this week…
LONDON — An experimental drug can sweep tangles of tau from the brain, raising hopes that the treatment could help Alzheimer’s disease patients, according to clinical trial data released July 14. The compound, called diranersen and developed by pharma giant Biogen, reduced tau levels in patients’ cerebrospinal fluid by between 50 and 65 percent as…
An international research team led by Hiroshima University has developed a technique that can reveal extremely early changes in human skin collagen, long before the damage becomes visible under conventional imaging. The findings, published in ACS Nano on July 16, 2026, suggest that collagen begins losing its precise molecular organization before its fibers become thinner,…
Developing sperm cells (blue; artificially coloured) fill the centre of seminiferous tubules (orange), which form the human testis.Credit: Susumu Nishinaga/Science Photo Library A cutting-edge operation has restored a man’s ability to make sperm by transplanting tissue samples that were removed from one of his testicles and frozen 16 years earlier, when he was still a…
CAREER NEWS 01 July 2026 Correction 08 July 2026 The investment provides a ‘special opportunity’ to establish the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute as a world leader in emerging oncology therapies.