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Hypoxia as a medicine | Science Translational Medicine

Although hypoxia is often pathologic, chronic continuous hypoxia has shown promise in many disease models, inspiring a roadmap for clinical translation.
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Perinatal dysfunction of innate immunity in cystic fibrosis | Science Translational Medicine

Evidence from patients and pigs with cystic fibrosis suggests pathological changes in leukocytes are present from birth.
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Cardiac allograft tolerance can be achieved in nonhuman primates by donor bone marrow and kidney cotransplantation | Science Translational Medicine

Combining transient mixed chimerism with kidney cotransplantation achieves heart allograft tolerance in nonhuman primates.
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Amyloid-associated hyperconnectivity drives tau spread across connected brain regions in Alzheimer’s disease | Science Translational Medicine

Aβ induces neuronal hyperconnectivity, which promotes tau spreading from temporal lobe epicenters to connected brain regions in Alzheimer’s disease.
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Triple knockdown of CD11a, CD49d, and PSGL1 in T cells reduces CAR-T cell toxicity but preserves activity against solid tumors in mice | Science Translational Medicine

Targeting integrins relieves on-target, off-tumor toxicity of CAR-T cells while preserving their antitumor efficacy.
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The physicist trying to build humanity's lunar future with moon dirt

New Scientist - Space - Wed, 22/01/2025 - 16:00
When it comes to sending humans back to the moon, knowing how to work with the regolith that coats the ground will be make-or-break. Phil Metzger is studying how to mitigate its dangers and use it as a crucial resource
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Incredible images show the moment SpaceX's Starship exploded

New Scientist - Space - Tue, 21/01/2025 - 15:45
James Temple was "in the right place at the right time" to take these dramatic images of SpaceX's Starship's seventh flight test disintegrating above the Atlantic Ocean
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An alien planet has winds that blow at 33,000 kilometres per hour

New Scientist - Space - Tue, 21/01/2025 - 15:21
Observations of WASP-127b, a giant gas exoplanet more than 500 light years from Earth, suggest it has phenomenally high wind speeds
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Weird icy balls in space could be a totally new kind of star

New Scientist - Space - Tue, 21/01/2025 - 10:00
After a close look with a powerful radio telescope, astronomers are still puzzled by a pair of objects with strange characteristics first spotted in 2021
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How to see all the solar system’s planets in the night sky at once

New Scientist - Space - Mon, 20/01/2025 - 18:19
All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – here’s how to spot the celestial show
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Brain implant lets man with paralysis fly a virtual drone by thought

New Scientist - Technology - Mon, 20/01/2025 - 18:00
A man with paralysis was able to fly a virtual drone through a complex obstacle course simply by thinking about moving his fingers, with signals being interpreted by an AI model
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Tiny insect-like robot can flip, loop and hover for up to 15 minutes

New Scientist - Technology - Fri, 17/01/2025 - 21:00
A flying robot the size of a postage stamp can hover for up to 15 minutes without breaking, and it can perform acrobatic manoeuvres
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US Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban – but the fight isn't over yet

New Scientist - Technology - Fri, 17/01/2025 - 17:07
Now that the US Supreme Court has decided that a law banning TikTok is constitutional, the platform is set to shut down in the US on 19 January – but Trump could still save it
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World's first AI chatbot has finally been resurrected after decades

New Scientist - Technology - Fri, 17/01/2025 - 16:31
ELIZA is famous as a rudimentary artificial intelligence and the first ever chatbot, but versions found online today are actually knock-offs because the original computer code was lost – until now
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Blue Origin vs SpaceX: Who is winning the battle of the rockets?

New Scientist - Space - Fri, 17/01/2025 - 16:00
Blue Origin and SpaceX both launched rockets on 16 January, but while Jeff Bezos's company saw a launch success with New Glenn, Elon Musk's Starship exploded. What does this mean for the future of the space industry?
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Robotic exoskeleton can train expert pianists to play faster

New Scientist - Technology - Fri, 17/01/2025 - 12:56
Trained pianists who hit a plateau improved their finger speed after a half-hour training session with a device that moves their fingers for them
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Read an extract from Adrian Tchaikovsky's Alien Clay

New Scientist - Space - Fri, 17/01/2025 - 11:00
In the opening to Adrian Tchaikovsky's science fiction novel Alien Clay, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, our hero wakes from years of space travel to a terrifying new reality
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NATO tests satellite internet as backup to sabotaged undersea cables

New Scientist - Technology - Thu, 16/01/2025 - 23:30
As apparent acts of sabotage cut undersea data cables around the world, NATO held its first demonstration of a project to quickly reroute crucial communications to satellite internet
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Human exploration of Mars is coming, says former NASA chief scientist

New Scientist - Space - Thu, 16/01/2025 - 15:00
NASA's former chief scientist, Jim Green, explains how close we are to having humans on Mars
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Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket reaches orbit on first launch

New Scientist - Space - Thu, 16/01/2025 - 12:19
After delays and false starts, Jeff Bezos's firm Blue Origin has reached orbit with its first launch of the New Glenn rocket, though attempts to land the first stage at sea were unsuccessful
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