IMAGE: deepai COLOGNE, Dec 31 – Scientists in Germany have identified a biological mechanism that helps explain why small cell lung cancer (SCLC), one of the most aggressive forms of lung cancer, relapses quickly despite…
Researchers develop flexible, stretchable photonic devices
[caption id="attachment_13594" align="alignnone" width="639"] A new material produced by Juejun Hu and his team can be repeatedly stretched without losing its optical properties.Courtesy of the researchers[/caption] CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Researchers at MIT and several other…
UW scientists create a recipe to make human…
[caption id="attachment_13591" align="alignnone" width="624"] A team of UW–Madison researchers has developed a tightly defined, step-by-step process to turn multipurpose stem cells (top) into the cells that make the human blood-brain barrier (bottom), the anatomical feature…
Ten years of hypergravity with ESA’s centriguge
[caption id="attachment_13588" align="alignnone" width="625"] Large Diameter Centrifuge[/caption] After 14 million revolutions, ESA’s Large Diameter Centrifuge is about to mark its 10th birthday. The 8 m-diameter four-arm centrifuge gives researchers access to a range of hypergravity…
Why some Muslim clerics become jihadists
In his new book, political scientist Richard Nielsen proposes a “blocked ambition” hypothesis. [caption id="attachment_13585" align="alignnone" width="626"] Richard Nielsen’s book, “Deadly Clerics: Blocked Ambition and the Paths to Jihad,” finds a certain portion of Muslim…