Category: 9. Sci-Tech

Scientists have identified a new anti-ageing drug class that works by acting on a key gut…

The cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum is a soil microbe that produces diverse natural products with potential antibiotic activity. Previously, three chlorinated compounds had been detected in Dictyostelium, but only the…

Researchers at UBC Okanagan have uncovered how plants produce mitraphylline, a rare natural compound that may help fight cancer. 

Mitraphylline belongs to a small group of plant molecules called spirooxindole alkaloids. 

These…

A rare microorganism found in an unexpected environment may be evading detection by “playing dead,” according to microbiologists at the University of Houston.

Discovered in NASA spacecraft assembly clean rooms, this rare novel…

Today, it’s a scientific consensus that Mars was once a very different place, with a warmer, denser atmosphere and liquid water on its surface. This is evidenced by flow channels, delta fans, lakebeds, and many other features that form…

What if our understanding of Uranus and Neptune’s compositions have been wrong, specifically regarding their classifications as “ice giants”? This is what a recent study accepted for publication in *Astronomy & Astrophysics* hopes…