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Citizen scientists help discover record-breaking exoplanet in binary star system https://phys.org/news/2024-04-citizen-scientists-exoplanet-binary-star.html by Mara Johnson-Groh, Simons Foundation A team of astronomers and citizen scientists has discovered a planet in the habitable zone of an unusua...

Democrats say they will save Speaker Mike Johnson's job if Republicans try to oust him Source: AP By KEVIN FREKING Updated 10:54 AM CDT, April 30, 2024 WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats will vote to save Republican Speaker Mike Johnson’s job should some of his fellow GOP lawmakers seek to remove him...

Study introduces improved way to grow cells that give rise to kidney's filtration system https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-cells-kidney-filtration.html by Keck School of Medicine of USC In a study published in Cell Stem Cell, USC scientists report significant progress in cultivating nephron pr...

Clouds blanket the night side of the hot exoplanet WASP-43b https://phys.org/news/2024-04-clouds-blanket-night-side-hot.html by Max Planck Society Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of astronomers, including scientists from MPIA, constructed a global temperature map of the hot, gas...

Scientists Build the First Brain-Like Artificial Synapse Just like your brain, the iontronic memristor uses salt and water. By Ryan Whitwam April 30, 2024 A team of physicists from Utrecht University in the Netherlands and Sogang University in South Korea have built an artificial synapse, the biolo...

NASA Space Laser Beams Home Data at 267Mbps From 140 Million Miles Away So far, the communication laser is even faster and more reliable than NASA had hoped. By Ryan Whitwam April 30, 2024 https://www.extremetech.com/science/nasa-space-laser-beams-home-data-at-267mbps-from-140-million-miles-away NA...

Researchers target neurogenesis in new approach to treat Parkinson's disease https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-neurogenesis-approach-parkinson-disease.html by Anika Hazra, University of Toronto Researchers at the University of Toronto have found a way to better control the preclinical generati...

Bacterial enzyme strips away blood types to create universal donor blood By Paul McClure April 29, 2024 Using enzymes produced by a bacteria that almost everyone has in their gut, researchers have removed the antigens from red blood cells that determine blood type, putting us within reach of produc...

Only half of atrial fibrillation patients survive another 10 years By Paul McClure April 30, 2024 https://newatlas.com/medical/atrial-fibrillation-half-survive/ Examining long-term outcomes for people with atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common heart rhythm disorder, a new study found that 55% s...