Soft corals emerge as source of highly potent anti-cancer compound

A 25-year search for another source of a promising anti-cancer chemical produced by a rare coral species has now started to bear fruit, with the discovery other readily available corals produce the chemical in abundance.

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Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft safely touches down in New Mexico

Boeing's Starliner passenger spacecraft has successfully returned to Earth. At 5:49 pm CDT, the uncrewed capsule landed at the US Army's White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico at the end of a six-day mission to the International Space Station.

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Isuzu drops light, versatile Arctic Basecamp camper truck

Isuzu UK used this year's CV Show to introduce the D-Max Arctic Trucks AT35 Basecamp, a highly maneuverable light camper pickup ready to bushwhack through dense forest and burrow through canyons that would stop larger trucks in their tracks.

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Latest version of Elios caged drone gets LiDAR for 3D mapping

Mapping the inside of cramped, difficult-to-reach areas can be helpful to people such as plant operators, but drones flown in such places could easily crash. The LiDAR- and cage-equipped Elios 3 quadcopter was designed with that challenge in mind.

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Promising peptide slows the spread and growth of melanoma in mice

Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer thanks to its ability to rapidly spread to other organs. Brazilian researchers have now developed a peptide that seems to slow the growth and spread of melanoma, improving the survival rates of test mice.

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Rising temperatures due to climate change shaving hours off our sleep

Scientists are beginning to explore the relationship between climate change and sleep quality, based on the premise that rising ambient temperatures are impacting our rest. And a new study indicates it may already be costing us many hours per year.

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China launches an autonomous mothership full of autonomous drones

China christened a remarkable new 290-foot ship last week – the world's first semi-autonomous drone carrier. It'll carry, launch, recover and co-ordinate the actions of more than 50 other autonomous aerial, surface and underwater vehicles.

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New heat spreading tech delivers 740% increase in circuit power density

A team from the University of Illinois and UC Berkeley has demonstrated a new cooling method that sucks heat out of electronics so efficiently that it allows designers to run 7.4 times more power through a given volume than conventional heat sinks.

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CRISPR-edited hamsters exhibit unexpected social behavior changes

The biology behind social behavior may be more complex than we thought. Researchers have used CRISPR to block a certain neurochemical signaling pathway in hamsters, and found that the animals’ social behaviors changed in unexpected ways.

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New treatment breaks down toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” in hours

Scientists are ramping up their efforts to better break down dangerous PFAS "forever chemicals" before they can cause harm, and a new breakthrough demonstrates how this might be done in a matter of hours using UV light.

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