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On November 11, MAPHEUS-15 became the 600th suborbital rocket launched from Sweden’s Esrange Space Center. While not wanting to downplay this impressive milestone, many are keener to see whether its payload paid off, scientifically speaking.

Researchers may have identified the long-debated cause of creaking, popping and clicking knees – common at any age, with or without an underlying knee injury – and whether it's something to be concerned about.

A study found human placenta cells reduced high blood pressure and the arterial inflammation and cognitive impairment caused by it in mice. The findings open the door to a new form of therapy that may prevent damage resulting from the condition.

Each year, more than 150,000 Americans are diagnosed with bowel cancer, or colorectal cancer, and the disease has a dire survival rate if surgery isn’t successful. Scientists now believe they have found one tiny molecule that could change all that.

New research suggests proteins generated by SARS-CoV-2 can form into clumps similar to what is seen in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s. The researchers hypothesize this mechanism may underpin symptoms seen in patients with long COVID.

Scientists in Australia have made intriguing discoveries in the genomes of a range of animals. What was initially mistaken for dust on the slides turned out to be “microchromosomes” from an ancient ancestor, present in birds, reptiles and mammals.

Scientists at Australia's La Trobe University have been developing a new microscope slide that presents cancer cells in color without the need for stains and dyes, and used it to detect breast cancer as part of an early trial.

Besides being known for their cube-shaped droppings, wombats are also subject to the disease sarcoptic mange. In order to understand how the mange-causing mites are able to spread between wombats, scientists have developed a burrow-exploring robot.

The human family tree is being shuffled around again. A new study suggests that Homo erectus existed 100,000 to 200,000 years earlier than previously thought, meaning they lived alongside species they were once thought to have descended from.

Omega-3 fatty acids have been shown to reduce inflammation, and asthma involves an inflammation of the airways. Would eating omega-3-rich fish therefore help reduce the severity of asthma? A new study indicates that the answer is likely Yes.

The world is in desperate need of new antibiotics, as bacteria continue to evolve and develop resistance to the ones we have. Now, researchers at La Trobe University have found a peptide in the flower of a tobacco plant that could be the first of a new kind of antibiotic.

A team of researchers at La Trobe University is developing a blood test for earlier detection of Parkinson's disease. The team estimates that it could be available within the next five years.