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Unveiling dark matter: How the Dragon Arc’s twinkling stars challenge cosmic theories

Unveiling dark matter: How the Dragon Arc’s twinkling stars challenge cosmic theories

AstronomyAstrophysicsDIPC Astrophysics

By DIPC

The mystery of dark matter remains one of the most profound puzzles in modern astrophysics. We know it outweighs ordinary matter by a factor of five, yet it neither shines nor absorbs light. Its presence is betrayed only by the pull of gravity, shaping galaxies and bending light from more distant objects. For decades, scientists […]

Biomarkers of chemoresistant leukemic cells in human T-ALL

Biomarkers of chemoresistant leukemic cells in human T-ALL

Biomedicine

By Invited Researcher

T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is characterized by the accumulation of genetic lesions that induce differentiation arrest, survival and aberrant proliferation of immature T-cell progenitors . Although T-ALL prognosis has significantly improved due to intensive chemotherapy, relapses still occur in 20% of pediatric patients and 50% of adult patients, often with a dismal outcome. To […]

Europe’s fish are moving to new waters

Europe’s fish are moving to new waters

BiologyEcologyEnvironmentGeosciences

By Invited Researcher

Author: Sevrine Sailley, Senior Scientist, Marine Ecosystem Modelling, Plymouth Marine Laboratory Climate change is reshaping fish habitats. Some fish are winners, others are losing out. Fish already face plenty of pressure from overfishing and pollution. Climate change is adding more: warmer waters and shifting food supplies cause what’s known as a predator-prey mismatch. This means […]

Numerical relativity and the biggest questions about the Universe

Numerical relativity and the biggest questions about the Universe

AstrophysicsCosmology

By Mapping Ignorance

We’re often told it is “unscientific” or “meaningless” to ask what happened before the Big Bang. But a new paper by cosmologist Eugene Lim, of King’s College London, UK, and astrophysicists Katy Clough, of Queen Mary University of London, UK, and Josu Aurrekoetxea, at Oxford University, UK, proposes a way forward: using complex computer simulations […]

When words fail, the brain can find ways to speak through music

When words fail, the brain can find ways to speak through music

LanguageNeurolinguistics

By Invited Researcher

Authors: Lieke A. Heijmans is an undergraduate student at the Linguistics program of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Adrià Rofes is associate professor in Neurolinguistics at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Losing the ability to speak doesn’t always mean losing the ability to communicate. For many people living with aphasia (i.e., a language […]