Biological “detectives” are tracking down biothreats such as the bacteria that causes tularemia (“rabbit fever”), but they constantly face the challenge of avoiding false positives. Sounding the alarm over a bioattack, only to find it’s a harmless relative in the same genus, reduces credibility and public trust. New work is […]
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Researchers report for the first time that tumors stressed by cancer immunotherapy release their mitochondrial DNA into nearby immune cells, triggering a host alert system.
Coprolites are fossilized feces that give evidence of an organism’s behavior and often contain food residues, parasite remains and other fossils that provide clues to ancient paleoecological relations.
WASHINGTON — The United Nations Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development has selected Intelsat’s Chief Executive Stephen Spengler as a commissioner, the company announced today. The commission, formed in 2010 from a mix of public, private and academic organizations, advocates for broadband internet access as a means to boost global development. […]
There’s an organism that will just love thisMatthieu Paley/National Geographic By Jop de Vrieze The microbes living in our gut could vary with the seasons, according to evidence from one of the few remaining groups of hunter-gatherers. Jeff Leach at the Human Food Project, a non-profit looking at the role of […]
Feel that nanopowerY.Zhang, A.Noy 2017 By Timothy Revell It sounds like a simple task: use ambient energy from your surroundings to do something handy, such as charge your iPod from the vibrations of your morning run. But few of the many energy-harvesting devices introduced over the past hundred years have […]
Follow the moneyAPA-PictureDesk GmbH/REX/Shutterstock By Timothy Revell After Kubiiki Pride’s 13-year-old daughter disappeared, it took 270 days for her mother to find her. When she did, it was as an escort available to be rented out on an online classified web site. Her daughter had been drugged and beaten into […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Descartes Labs, a startup that specializes in applying machine learning to geospatial data, announced Aug. 24 that it closed a $30 million Series B funding round led by March Capital, a Los Angeles-based venture firm. With the financing, Descartes Labs plans to enhance its “data refinery,” the […]