1.3 billion year old iron ore from the Hamersley Province. Credit: Liam Courtney-Davies, Curtin University Research led by Curtin University reveals that the largest iron ore deposits on Earth – in Western Australia’s Hamersley Province – are about a billion years younger than previously believed, a discovery that could greatly boost the search for more … Read more
Interest in Earth-like planets orbiting within the habitable zone of their host stars has grown, fueled by the quest to discover life beyond our solar system. But the habitability of such planets, known as exoplanets, is affected by more than just their distance from the star. A new study by David Alexander and Anthony Atkinson … Read more
USC scientists have discovered a way to turn the body’s B cells into tiny surveillance machines and antibody factories that can pump out antibodies specifically designed to destroy cancer cells or HIV, two of medicine’s most formidable foes. . The research, published today in Nature Biomedical Engineering, describes a technique for editing the genes of … Read more