Ultrafast current pulses let scientists push superconductors beyond their usual experimental limits before vortices and heat could interfere. The method revealed striking differences in how two superconducting materials break down and could expose quantum behavior that conventional measurements miss. Superconductivity is one of the most remarkable behaviors found in quantum materials. When some materials are […]
A Few Picoseconds Reveal Superconductivity’s Hidden Breaking Point
Ultrafast current pulses let scientists push superconductors beyond their usual experimental limits before vortices and heat could interfere. The method revealed striking differences in how two superconducting materials break down and could expose quantum behavior that conventional measurements miss. Superconductivity is one of the most remarkable behaviors found in quantum materials. When some materials are […]
Mars’ North Polar Ice Is Much Cleaner Than Scientists Thought
Beneath the dusty surface of Mars’ north pole, scientists have uncovered surprisingly clean layers of ice that may preserve a hidden record of the planet’s dramatic climate history. Earth maintains a relatively steady posture in space thanks to the gravitational anchor of a massive moon. Mars lacks that stability. Tugged only by two tiny moons, […]
FDA Approves First Drug To Treat Alexander Disease After 30 Years of Research
The drug is the first and only treatment that can change the course of this rare neurological disease. For decades, patients diagnosed with Alexander disease had no options beyond managing their symptoms. The ultra-rare, progressive, and often fatal neurological disorder affects fewer than one in a million people worldwide. It affects motor and cognitive abilities, […]
FDA Approves First Drug To Treat Alexander Disease After 30 Years of Research
The drug is the first and only treatment that can change the course of this rare neurological disease. For decades, patients diagnosed with Alexander disease had no options beyond managing their symptoms. The ultra-rare, progressive, and often fatal neurological disorder affects fewer than one in a million people worldwide. It affects motor and cognitive abilities, […]
FDA Approves First Drug To Treat Alexander Disease After 30 Years of Research
The drug is the first and only treatment that can change the course of this rare neurological disease. For decades, patients diagnosed with Alexander disease had no options beyond managing their symptoms. The ultra-rare, progressive, and often fatal neurological disorder affects fewer than one in a million people worldwide. It affects motor and cognitive abilities, […]
Cancer’s Rogue DNA Has an Achilles’ Heel – and Scientists Just Found It
Researchers found that blocking a key DNA repair protein destabilizes rogue DNA circles that help drive aggressive cancers, exposing a potential weakness in tumors that rely on ecDNA. Some aggressive cancers carry extra copies of cancer-driving genes on circles of DNA that float outside the cell’s normal chromosomes. These rogue DNA circles can help tumors […]
Childhood Poverty Linked to More Than 3x Risk of Being Shut Out of Work and Education
The struggle to escape poverty can begin long before a first job, with persistent childhood hardship linked to more than triple the risk of being shut out of education and work as a young adult. Young people raised in persistent poverty were more than three times as likely to be outside education, employment, or training […]
A Strange Red Sea Discovery Could Reveal How Life Survived Before Oxygen
New evidence from deep in the Red Sea suggests that chemical reactions involving manganese and iron may have provided energy for life in Earth’s earliest oceans. Long before atmospheric oxygen filled the sky or photosynthetic organisms harvested sunlight, Earth hosted a mysterious biosphere whose energy sources remain uncertain. Clues to how those primitive organisms survived […]
Scientists Develop Local Anesthetic That Lasts Weeks Instead of Hours
The findings could help researchers make local anesthetics last longer in people. Patients recovering from surgery may need pain relief beyond the eight to 12 hours, or about a day at most, that most local anesthetics provide. Seeking a longer-lasting option, researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital have redesigned liposomes, microscopic carriers made from fatty molecules, […]