Three men who were suffering from advanced chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) are now healthy and cancer-free, thanks to a pair of clinical studies for a promising new gene therapy. The results, announced Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine and Science Translational Medicine, have medical researchers in thrall: “I’m getting goosebumps,” says University of Pennsylvania pathologist Michael Kalos, lead author of one […]
Livejournal user quaint_idea made these cupcakes for his last ever physics lesson. Check out the black hole cupcake below as it devours a small star. Poor little thing. [Source | Via]
Psychologist Philip Zimbardo asks, “Why are boys struggling?” He shares some stats (lower graduation rates, greater worries about intimacy and relationships) and suggests a few reasons — and he asks for your help! Watch his talk, then take his short 10-question survey. [Youtube]
Pluto and moons, pretty much at scale.* It’s been a big year for our tiniest former planet. Last month, Pluto’s new moon, tentatively called P4, made news (and lame jokes about Disney characters), and now astronomers are predicting that Pluto also has a faint ring. Ringed planets aren’t especially uncommon, as it turns out. We […]
Check out what happens when you drop a neodymium magnet down a copper pipe. The movement of the magnet induces an electric current in the copper and with electric current comes a magnetic field, which makes the magnet attracted to it. The magnet doesn’t stick to the wall as it falls because the induced current, […]
There are plenty of theories that suggest abused children are more likely to carry out abuse themselves when they grow up. Now it appears that pattern may exist in non-human species. Researchers from Wake Forest University in North Carolina made the discovery while studying Nazca boobies, a bird found on islands in the Pacific ocean […]
If you like to waste your time in math class but also feel like you should be highly efficient about it, take a lesson from YouTuber Vihart. In five minutes, you too will know the art of squiggling a squiggle inside a squiggle inside a squiggle, also known as the Hilbert space-filling curve. An entire […]
Good news for the people responsible for fueling future spacecraft–a ring of antiprotons has been detected spiraling between the Van Allen belts. Theoretically, the antiparticle equivalent of protons could be used to power super-efficient rockets. “This is the most abundant source of antiprotons near the Earth,” says Alessandro Bruno, of the University of Bari in Italy. […]