Month: April 2025

Rutgers’ research reveals the widespread presence of mercury pollution in Earth’s polar regions. In 1962, environmentalist and author Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, warning the world about the dangers of the pesticide DDT. Her work drew attention to the reproductive harm it caused in birds, most notably the bald eagle, and inspired widespread environmental action. […]

An NIH-funded project leverages advanced synapse imaging to monitor real-time neuronal changes during learning, unveiling new insights that could inspire next-generation brain-like AI systems. How do we learn something new? How do tasks at a new job, the lyrics to the latest hit song, or directions to a friend’s house become encoded in our brains? […]

“Optical rotatum” is the term researchers coined to describe a newly discovered structure of light. Beams of light that can be shaped into corkscrew-like forms, known as optical vortices, are used today in a variety of applications. Pushing the boundaries of structured light, applied physicists at Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied […]

New research unveils the first experimental evidence of the anomalous Hall effect arising in a collinear antiferromagnet exhibiting non-Fermi liquid behavior. A team of international researchers, led by Mayukh Kumar Ray, Mingxuan Fu, and Satoru Nakatsuji of the University of Tokyo, in collaboration with Collin Broholm from Johns Hopkins University, has observed the anomalous Hall […]

T-cell activation involves two phases, enabling a more precise immune response. This insight may boost cancer immunotherapy effectiveness. A research team led by Wolfgang Kastenmüller and Georg Gasteiger used advanced microscopy techniques to closely observe how specific immune cells, T-cells, are activated and multiply during a viral infection. Their findings uncovered previously unknown mechanisms, showing […]

T-cell activation involves two phases, enabling a more precise immune response. This insight may boost cancer immunotherapy effectiveness. A research team led by Wolfgang Kastenmüller and Georg Gasteiger used advanced microscopy techniques to closely observe how specific immune cells, T-cells, are activated and multiply during a viral infection. Their findings uncovered previously unknown mechanisms, showing […]

T-cell activation involves two phases, enabling a more precise immune response. This insight may boost cancer immunotherapy effectiveness. A research team led by Wolfgang Kastenmüller and Georg Gasteiger used advanced microscopy techniques to closely observe how specific immune cells, T-cells, are activated and multiply during a viral infection. Their findings uncovered previously unknown mechanisms, showing […]

A massive, multi-year project led by over 150 scientists has produced the most detailed map yet of how visual information travels through the brain – revealing more than 500 million connections in a speck of mouse brain tissue. Using glowing neurons, high-powered electron microscopes, and deep learning, researchers captured both the physical wiring and real-time […]

A massive, multi-year project led by over 150 scientists has produced the most detailed map yet of how visual information travels through the brain – revealing more than 500 million connections in a speck of mouse brain tissue. Using glowing neurons, high-powered electron microscopes, and deep learning, researchers captured both the physical wiring and real-time […]

Blocking the PROX1 protein allowed KAIST researchers to regenerate damaged retinas and restore vision in mice. Vision is one of the most important human senses, yet more than 300 million people around the world are at risk of losing it due to various retinal diseases. Although recent treatments have helped slow the progression of these […]