No lab detour: MIT teaches killer cells new targets with a nanoparticle shot
Most cell therapies begin with a blood draw and a clean-room wait. Chemists at MIT sketch a different route: fatty nanoparticles that carry instructions into natural killer cells while those…
Radar caught the mountain shifting: 40 cm of creep before the Gyirong-Rasuwa collapse
Long before the roar, instruments watched the hillside inch downhill. ICIMOD’s Tuesday synthesis of the late-August Gyirong–Rasuwa disaster says European Sentinel radar picked up ground motion reaching forty centimetres on…
Disaster Day focus: homes take 43 percent of reported economic losses
Storms, quakes and floods rarely spare the place where people sleep. Fresh UNDRR tallies released for the yearly risk-reduction observance show residential buildings making up 43 percent of the direct…
Sirens came late in Kyiv: partners gave no heads-up on ballistic launches
People in Ukraine’s capital heard the blasts first and the warning tone only afterwards. Overnight into Oct. 13, ballistic weapons reached Kyiv while allied tip-offs and domestic radar both arrived…
Coventry’s ruthless night sinks Newcastle 4-1 for first Premier League home win in 25 years
Coventry City went into Monday night with the poorest finishing record of any Premier League side. They came out of it with four goals, a second straight league win and…
Bacterial virus shield turns out to be a distant cousin of the enzyme that guards our chromosomes
When viruses attack, some bacteria reach for a molecular tool that looks strikingly familiar to anyone who studies human cells. Scientists at Columbia University report in Nature that a newly…
Pope Leo XIV checks into Gemelli Hospital as surgeons prepare to remove lung nodule
A small spot found on one of his lungs has taken Pope Leo XIV into the Gemelli, the Rome hospital where pontiffs have been treated for decades. The 71-year-old was…
Britain pins Fairford air base scare on Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and sanctions two men
Nobody has been charged and no explosives were ever found, yet the British government now says it knows who stood behind the alarm at RAF Fairford. Speaking in the Commons…
Bulgaria summons Russian envoy after second deadly drone sinking off its coast in a week
Bulgaria has called in Moscow’s ambassador after drones struck two merchant vessels in its Black Sea economic zone overnight into Tuesday, sending one to the bottom and leaving 11 sailors…
One blocked kick changes everything: Bills survive wild Monday night in LA, beat Rams 37-34 in OT
A game full of swings and self-inflicted wounds came down to a single hand in the air. Buffalo edge rusher Greg Rousseau got a piece of Harrison Mevis’ 48-yard try…