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A Vaccine For Type 1 Diabetes Begins Human Trials in 2018 A prototype vaccine, decades in the making, that could prevent type 1 diabetes in children is ready to start clinical trials in 2018. It’s not a cure, and it won’t eliminate the disease altogether, but the vaccine is expected to provide immunity against a virus that has been found to... EverythingScience.co.uk @EverythingScience

Your Body Is Designed to Attack a New Organ, Now We Know Why Scientists think they’ve found the molecular basis for organ transplant rejection. Now that we know its cause, could we prevent its effect? EverythingScience.co.uk @EverythingScience

Diet Drinks Really Are Associated With Weight Gain, Says New Research Over the past decade, Americans have soured on artificial sweeteners. Once heralded as sweet substitutes for sugar without as many belt-busting calories, people couldn’t get enough sucralose and aspartame. But recently, people have started looking at the molecules with increasing suspicion, amid studies that linked them to increased belly fat – and... EverythingScience.co.uk @EverythingScience

9 Amazing Things We’ve Achieved in 2017 With Help From CRISPR There’s a good reason why the powerful CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing tool has earned the moniker of being ‘revolutionary’. The relatively easy technique for cutting and pasting genes has exploded onto the scientific scene, and over the past years there’s been no shortage of spectacular results delivered thanks to this amazing... EverythingScience.co.uk @EverythingScience

The Reason We’ve Never Found Intelligent Life Might be Because We Are Already Going Extinct The Fermi Paradox The Milky Way Galaxy alone is home to between 100 billion and 400 billion stars, and each is potentially orbited by planets. There are probably at least 2 trillion galaxies like ours in the observable universe, each one populated by trillions of planets orbiting hundreds of billions... EverythingScience.co.uk @EverythingScience

World’s Youngest Double Hand Transplant Declared a Success Two years after 10 year-old Zion Harvey received a pair of donor hands in a world-first transplant operation, doctors have published on 18 months of the young patient’s progress. Describing the transplant as an overall success, their report also details the risks and challenges involved in what is a revolution still... EverythingScience.co.uk @EverythingScience

Running Would Have Broken an Adult Tyrannosaurus Rex’s Legs Science ruins dinosaurs again. Jurassic Park’s most iconic scenes should have run a little slower, based on new research suggesting our favourite dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus rex, couldn’t manage more than a walk. Calculating the top speed of the tyrant lizard king seems to be an obsession for paleontologists, who have debated over... EverythingScience.co.uk @EverythingScience

Scientists Have Reversed Brain Damage in a 2-Year-Old Girl Who Drowned in a Swimming Pool Researchers in the US have reported what they believe is a first-of-its-kind reversal of brain damage, after treating a drowned and resuscitated toddler with a combination of oxygen therapies. The little girl, whose heart didn’t beat on her own for 2 hours after drowning, showed deep grey matter injury and cerebral atrophy... EverythingScience.co.uk @EverythingScience

Celebrating 100 Years: A Storied Legacy, A Soaring Future NASA Langley – 100 Years: Something happened 100 years ago that changed forever the way we fly, the way we explore space and how we study our home planet. That something was the establishment of what is now NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, which commemorates its 100th anniversary... EverythingScience.co.uk @EverythingScience

Close up of the Great Red Spot On July 11, the Juno spacecraft once again swung near to Jupiter's turbulent cloud tops in its looping 53 day orbit around the Solar System's ruling gas giant. About 11 minutes after perijove 7, its closest approach on this orbit, it passed directly above Jupiter's Great Red Spot. During the much anticipated fly over, it captured this close-up image data from a distance of less than 10,000 kilometers. The raw JunoCam data was subsequently processed by citizen scientists. Very long-lived but found to be shrinking, the Solar System's largest storm system was measure to be 16,350 kilometers wide on April 15. That's about 1.3 times the diameter of planet Earth.

Robotic landers could start mining the moon as early as 2020 A permanent robotic mining outpost on the moon could be on the cards as early as 2020. The Florida-based company Moon Express has raised over $45 million in funding for three expeditions that will culminate in a mission to mine moon rocks and return them to Earth. Because the laws governing usage of... EverythingScience.co.uk @EverythingScience

These 100 Companies Are to Blame For 71% of The World’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Since 1988, a mere 100 companies have been responsible for 71 percent of the entire world’s industrial greenhouse gas emissions. This data comes from an inaugural report published by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), an environmental non-profit. Charting the rapid expansion of the fossil fuel industry in the last 28 years, they... EverythingScience.co.uk @EverythingScience

Juno Spacecraft Completes Flyby of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Success! NASA’s Juno mission has completed a close flyby of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. All of the probe’s science instruments were operational, NASA officials said in a statement, as was the craft’s JunoCam. Data and photos are now streaming back to Earth. Raw images of the gigantic storm, 1.3 times as wide... EverythingScience.co.uk @EverythingScience

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Some 385 light-years from us, HIP 65426b is the first planet that SPHERE has found — and it turns out to be a particularly interesting one. Learn more: eso.org/public/usa/announcements/ann17041 #news

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NASA Jupiter Probe to Fly Over Great Red Spot Tonight NASA’s Juno spacecraft is about to get the best-ever look at Jupiter’s famous Great Red Spot. Juno will fly over the 10,000-mile-wide (16,000 kilometers) storm — which is so big that three Earths could fit inside it — at 10:06 p.m. EDT tonight (July 10; 0206 GMT on July 11), during the probe’s... EverythingScience.co.uk @EverythingScience

We’re Sending Another Probe to Mercury to Work Out Why The Planet’s Shrinking The European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have unveiled the probe they’re sending to study Mercury in 2018, tasked with figuring out why the smallest planet in the Solar System appears to be shrinking. The BepiColombo spacecraft is also going to be tasked with looking for... EverythingScience.co.uk @EverythingScience

The Large Hadron Collider Just Detected a New Particle That’s Heavier Than a Proton The Large Hadron Collider has once again done what it does best – smash bits of matter together and find new particles in the carnage. This time physicists have come across a real charmer. It’s four times heavier than a proton and could help challenge some ideas about how this... EverythingScience.co.uk @EverythingScience

This Quantum Theory Predicts That The Future Might Be Influencing The Past One of the weirder aspects of quantum mechanics could be explained by an equally weird idea – that causation can run backwards in time as well as forwards. What Einstein called “spooky” action at a distance could theoretically be evidence of retrocausality, which is the particle equivalent of you getting a stomach ache... EverythingScience.co.uk @EverythingScience