National Taiwan University research team uses single-cell analysis to reveal how exhausted T cells drive immunotherapy resistance and identify a potential new therapeutic strategy. Single-cell multiomics reveals that RUNX2 drives the progression of CD8⁺ T…
Ants: master manipulators for biodiversity, or sweet treats
Symbiotic ants manipulate aphid reproduction rates to achieve a specific mix of green and red aphids, maintaining the inferior green aphids which produce the ants' favorite snack. [caption id="attachment_14333" align="alignnone" width="953"] The top three aphids…
Cities of the future may be built with…
Study finds adding volcanic ash reduces the overall energy required to manufacture concrete. [caption id="attachment_14330" align="alignnone" width="639"] MIT engineers working with scientists in Kuwait have found that volcanic rocks, when pulverized into a fine ash,…
Kubik on Space Station
[caption id="attachment_14325" align="alignnone" width="700"] Credit: NASA[/caption] A miniaturised laboratory inside the orbital laboratory that is ESA’s Columbus module, this 40 cm cube has been one of its quiet scientific triumphs. Kubik – from the Russian…
Bio-renewable process could help ‘green’ plastic
[caption id="attachment_14316" align="alignnone" width="628"] A crystal of furandicarboxylic acid, or FDCA, a plastic precursor created with biomass instead of petroleum. IMAGE BY ALI HUSSAIN MOTAGAMWALA AND JAMES RUNDE[/caption] When John Wesley Hyatt patented the first…






