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A team from the University of Bonn and the Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center (FZB) has discovered a previously unknown mechanism of action for a synthetic peptide that mitigates excessive inflammatory…
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An unexploded vintage bomb was recovered Monday afternoon, July 20, after construction workers reportedly unearthed it during an ongoing road project in the City of Naga, southern Cebu....Keep on reading: Vintage bomb…
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SCIENCE Viking 1 landed on Mars 50 years ago And would have lasted longer if some code hadn't trampled on places it shouldn't It has been half a century since NASA landed on Mars with the Viking 1 lander. Viking 1, one…
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Delivering these gains depends not only on advances in chip design and system architecture, but on advances in the materials that enable them to perform under extreme conditions. As AI continues to push the physical…
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Record heat, historic drought and sweeping wildfires have marked France's 2026 summer. Yet climate scientists mostly see global warming's expected effects playing out. Only the rapid succession of heatwaves has caught…
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Arctic sea ice has plunged to a record low – with 'exceptionally' diminished levels this year, a new study has warned. Over the last two decades, sea ice decline has actually been slow. However, new satellite…
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Another election, another study has concluded that asking an AI chatbot for political guidance is a spectacularly bad idea. Research conducted during Hungary’s 2026 parliamentary election found that ChatGPT and Google…
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Rising sea levels could plunge 1.7 million more Brits' homes underwater by 2300 and render parts of the UK uninhabitable, scientists have warned. Researchers from the Met Office and the University of Bristol used…
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BENGALURU, India , July 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Drawing on its leadership in advanced neurosciences, Manipal Hospital Sarjapur Road recently hosted the Manipal DBS Summit 2026 , the first dedicated scientific meeting…
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For the first time, astronomers have reconstructed the magnetic field of an entire cluster of galaxies, from its central nucleus to its outer limits. The record-breaking achievement is the product of the deepest-ever…
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This image provided by the European Southern Observatory shows the Beta Pictoris region on March 6, 2014. \| Photo Credit: ESO/AP Astronomers have discovered a faint, elusive planet orbiting a young star after more than…
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A rare bird turned up in central Brazil, or so it seemed. A photo on the wildlife platform iNaturalist showed a red-winged blackbird. That North American species had never turned up in that part of Brazil. It would have…
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Taal Volcano in Batangas generated another minor phreatomagmatic eruption on Tuesday afternoon, July 21, 2026, marking the fourth such event recorded this month, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology…
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A rare Woodhouse's toad has returned to the Springs Preserve in Las Vegas for the first time in nearly 65 years, giving conservationists fresh hope that wildlife is returning to a restored habitat where the species once…
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Photomicrographs of studied limestones in Dillai Parbat. \| Photo Credit: Special Arrangement GUWAHATI A significant swathe of present-day Assam was once under a warm, shallow tropical sea rich in microscopic marine…
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Sun news for July 21, 2026. These four panels show the fiery debut of new active region AR4493. From left to right and top to bottom: the M2.5 flare at 14:36 UTC, the M1.1 flare at 19:20 UTC, and the M3.4 flare at 22:25…
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Weak AI safety regulations may “backfire,” creating a product that is potentially more dangerous than AI products created under no regulation, according to a new study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the…
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A tiny organ in our chest cavity could be the key to regulating inflammation as we age, according to new research in mice. The thymus is nestled between our lungs and is roughly the size of a dried apricot. It helps our…
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Scientists have provided an update on the Super El Niño – and say the terrifying climate pattern is 'evolving'. New measurements show that El Niño conditions are strengthening across the tropical Pacific, with sea…
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Deaths linked to online medicines prompt national study July 21, 2026 Photo: Depositphotos.com See more DutchNews articles in your Google search results See more DutchNews articles in your Google search results Add as a…
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The flies that had swarmed parts of Kotagiri and Coonoor have been identified by wildlife biologists as ‘fungus gnats’ \| Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A team of wildlife biologists investigated recent reports of…
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MOSCOW, July 21. /TASS/. Roscosmos has successfully tested a new satellite internet modem - the AT Gonets, the Russian state corporation reported. The device operated without glitches or data loss, it said. "The…
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The flies that had swarmed parts of Kotagiri and Coonoor have been identified by wildlife biologists as ‘fungus gnats’ \| Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A team of wildlife biologists investigated recent reports of…
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A landmark 34-year study, co-led by University of Warwick, tracks very preterm babies from birth to middle adulthood and identifies early cognitive development as the strongest predictor of who flourishes and struggles…
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In the middle of 2023, a study conducted by the HuthLab at the University of Texas sent shockwaves through the realms of neuroscience and technology. For the first time, the thoughts and impressions of people unable to…
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Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have made remarkable progress restoring movement and speech in people with paralysis. While brain-computer interface technology thus far has largely focused on decoding motor function,…
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A stroke takes place when the brain suffers irreversible damage due to a sudden interruption of blood flow. Strokes are predominantly of three types – ischemic strokes, intracerebral haemorrhages and subarachnoid…
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You were probably taught in high school that new neurons, or brain cells, are not born during adulthood. That it stops during your childhood. The actual picture has been more complicated: scientists have been debating…
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Imagine watching the brain not as a finished organ but as a city under construction, where every neuron is a worker changing jobs as the skyline rises. A series of papers in Nature published on November 5 has captured…
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Many people have reported moments when the sense of being a distinct self ‘loosens’. Among astronauts, it is called the overview effect while deep-sea explorers report a similar shift sometimes called the underview…