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Researchers, led by the University of Melbourne’s Professor Laura Mackay, a Laboratory Head and Immunology Theme Leader at the Peter Doherty Institute of Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute), in collaboration with Pfizer, have discovered new insights into possible future treatments for breast cancer.
A new dual-target drug that has been shown to supercharge cancer-fighting immune cells in mice may support a new treatment approach for patients, potentially paving the way for improved outcomes in breast cancer care.
Breast cancer is the fifth most common cause of cancer death in Australia, with more than 20,000 Australians diagnosed per year. Over 1,000 of those diagnosed are young Australian women under 40. There is an urgent need to discover more effective treatments for breast cancer.
Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life’s emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has found that water arrived on Earth later in its formation than previously believed. This discovery has important implications for understanding when life first emerged on the planet.
Microsoft patches 63 flaws, including two exploited Windows vulnerabilities (CVE-2025–21391, CVE-2025–21418). CISA requires fixes by March 4.
Euclid, a space telescope on a mission to uncover the secrets of dark matter and dark energy, has already made a stunning discovery: a perfectly formed Einstein ring hidden in a well-known galaxy.
This rare phenomenon, predicted by Einstein’s theory of relativity, reveals the power of gravitational lensing, allowing scientists to glimpse far-off galaxies otherwise invisible. The find is a testament to Euclid’s groundbreaking capabilities, suggesting a future filled with even more cosmic surprises.
Euclid’s Mission Begins
A study has found that the cortex acts like a ‘memory machine’, encoding new experiences and predicting the near future, helping to differentiate between novel and old information.
Terahertz radiation (THz), electromagnetic radiation with frequencies ranging from 0.1 and 10 THz, is central to the functioning of various technologies, including imaging, sensing and spectroscopy tools. While THz radiation waves have been manipulated in different ways over the past decades, controlling their direction in air has so far remained a challenge.
Researchers at Ecole Polytechnique (CNRS) at Institut Polytechnique de Paris recently demonstrated the steering of laser-produced THz radiation in air, using a recently introduced technique dubbed “flying focus.” Their paper, published in Physical Review Letters, could open new possibilities for the manipulation of THz electromagnetic waves, which could in turn be leveraged to develop new technologies.
“My group has been working on the generation of THz radiation by laser-induced filaments in air for almost 20 years,” Aurélien Houard, senior author of the paper, told Phys.org. “A major advantage of these filaments is that they can be generated at a large distance from the laser in the atmosphere. However, the THz emission remained confined close to the laser axis, which is not convenient for remote detection.”
Carnegie Mellon University’s Professor Curtis Meyer and his research colleagues explore an uncharted world inside protons and neutrons. For the first time, researchers have provided measurements describing a maximum boundary for a subatomic particle known as a hybrid meson in a journal paper published in Physical Review Letters. The measurements show scientists a path forward in a search for these elusive particles that provide a new look at the force that holds all matter together.
“The stage is set for future discoveries,” said Meyer, senior associate dean for CMU’s Mellon College of Science and the Otto Stern Professor of Physics. “We’re at an exciting phase where we’re able to analyze a great deal of data. This paper is the first to address one of the experiment’s foundational questions.”
Applying a symmetry property of the strong force, the team set the upper limit on the photoproduction cross sections of a hybrid meson known as the spin-exotic π1 (1600).