Shubhanshu Shukla, IISc-IISER team, find how brick-building bacteria react to toxin in Martian soil

A toxic chemical long considered hostile to life on Mars, may not be an obstacle to building on the Red Planet after all. Instead, it could.

Toxic chemical in Martian soil leads to stronger brick-building bacteria

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have investigated how bacteria that can mould Martian soil into brick-like structures fare in the presence of perchlorate, a toxic ...
CNN

Supreme Court agrees to decide if police can seek sweeping cellphone location data in investigations

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to review whether police warrants that allow access to large amounts of cellphone location data to identify people near a crime scene are constitutional. The practice ...
Polygon

Alien: Isolation's Xenomorph doesn’t need to resort to try-hard jumpscares

Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...
Futurism

Scientists Announce Results After Scanning 3I/ATLAS for Alien Signals

In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly rare discovery: a mysterious object passing through the solar ...
FOX13 Memphis

Female inmate found unresponsive inside cell dies at hospital, sheriff says

CROCKETT COUNTY, Tenn. - A woman incarcerated in Crockett County was found unresponsive in an isolation cell and later died at the hospital, the county sheriff's office said Thursday. The Crockett ...
AOL

Dad uses cellphone data to rescue missing daughter, police say

A Texas teenager was rescued by her father after she was forced into a truck at knifepoint on Christmas Day, police said. Patrol deputies with the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office were called to an ...
FierceBiotech

Hope springs toward Parkinson's phase 3 despite divergent stem cell therapy data

Hope Biosciences has linked its stem cell therapy candidate to improved motor function in Parkinson’s disease patients in a phase 2 trial. The single-site study randomized 60 people with early to ...
Digi Times

Fuel cells and SMRs emerge as possible alternatives to AI data center power shortage

The US government is beginning to grow cautious of AI data centers (AIDCs) because of their enormous pressure on power grids. In facing the hard limits of energy resources, policymakers will be forced ...
pv magazine International

Hithium pushes into long-duration storage and AI data centres with 1,300Ah cell, 6.9 MW/55.2 MWh system, and lithium-sodium hybrid

At its annual Ecosystem Day on December 12, Hithium Energy Storage signaled a strategic improvement beyond conventional four-hour batteries, positioning long-duration storage as both a grid asset and ...
Morningstar

Qihan Biotech Presents New Clinical Data on Allogeneic CAR-T Cell Therapies and Preclinical Data on In Vivo CAR-T at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting

Qihan Biotech Presents New Clinical Data on Allogeneic CAR-T Cell Therapies and Preclinical Data on In Vivo CAR-T at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting – Clinical data from ...