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Cannibal Cells Inspire Cancer Treatment ImprovementGiving cells an appetite for cancer could enhance treatmentsBy Kate Graham-ShawMacrophage (green) consuming cancer cells. Credit: From “Hyperactive Rac Stimulates Cannibalism of Living Target Cells and Enhances CAR-M-Mediated Cancer Cell Killing,” by Abhinava K. Mishra et al., in Cell Biology; December, 2023.In living organisms, some cells ruthlessly gobble up others. This “cellular cannibalism” is a common natural process: within your own body, white blood cells are…

This artist’s impression shows the magnetic white dwarf WD 0816-310, where astronomers have found a scar imprinted on its surface as a result of having ingested planetary debris. When objects like planets or asteroids approach the white dwarf they get disrupted, forming a debris disc around the dead star. Some of this material can be devoured by the dwarf, leaving traces of certain chemical elements on its surface. Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers found that the signature of these chemical elements changed…

At this point, slasher horror games are kind of an old hat, having never totally reached escape trajectory from the indie sphere. 2022’s Stay Out of the House seems like the culmination of the standards, and we’re in need of innovation before falling back into the distressing comfort of abstract, existential horror. Cannibal Abduction is not that innovation. It is very much submerged in the conventions of the slasher horror genre. But even having said that, it is an enjoyable, bite-sized sampling of what the genre…

Torture Star Video, the publishing arm of Puppet Combo, is bringing Tomás Esconjaureguy’s slasher adventure, Cannibal Abduction, to consoles. It will arrive on Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox consoles on February 8, 2024. Tomás Esconjaureguy previously brought us The Night of the Scissors back in 2022, which sounds like a localization title for Clock Tower. Cannibal Abduction followed in 2023 on PC, where it was self-published by Selewi, Esconjaureguy’s publishing label. As is standard for cannibal stories and common in…

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviewsSign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Netflix has an impressive 2024 lined up, with a bursting list of new titles set to be added in January.Overt the next four weeks, the streaming service will be introducing a large number of new movies and TV shows to its library, ranging from returning shows to classic films.These releases include a meat-eating vs vegan documentary based on a study of identical twins, new Harlan Coben series…

November 30, 20233 min readA strong geomagnetic storm is expected to hit Earth after several outbursts from the sun merged into one large blob of plasmaBy Daisy Dobrijevic & SPACE.comThe sun as seen by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft in late November 2023, including a large solar flare emitted from the southern half of the sun. Aurora chasers around the world are eagerly awaiting the arrival of a super-hot plasma eruption — known as a coronal mass ejection (CME) — that will slam into Earth tonight.The…

NOAA has warned that the progress of Solar Cycle 25 has surpassed scientific predictions, indicating a notably greater number of sunspots and solar storm eruptions than initially predicted by experts, and that forecast may not be very good news for Earth. The cycle began in December 2019 along with a significant surge in solar activity. Over a period of time, we have witnessed numerous dangerous solar storms striking Earth. Recently, on July 14th, the most visually dramatic eruptions of Solar Cycle 25 occurred on the…

A gas giant exoplanet 634 light-years away has a quirk in its atmosphere that suggests it may have swallowed a smaller world.It's WASP-76b, and it's already famous for being one of the hottest exoplanets in the galaxy. Whipping around its host star once every 1.8 days, WASP-76b reaches temperatures above 2,000 degrees Celsius (3,632 Fahrenheit), and previous analyses of its atmosphere suggested that it rains liquid iron.Now, led by astronomer Stefan Pelletier of the University of Montreal in Canada, an international team…

Elko, Nevada,is playing host to a real life horror movie scenario. The town is experiencing a substantial invasion of Mormon crickets. Thankfully, the imposing insects are not directly harmful to people.Get Ready For Another Summer of Invasive Lanternflies | Extreme EarthThe Mormon cricket (Anabrus simplex) is a relatively large flightless and black or reddish insect native to the western half of North America, with adults reaching up to three inches in length. It’s not a true cricket, but belongs to the related group of…

In just a few hours, the Earth is expected to witness a G1-class geomagnetic storm. This minor storm will be triggered by a coronal mass ejection (CME) cloud which is going to deliver glancing blows to the Earth. The storm is not expected to be intense. And one of the reasons behind that is the CME cloud is not a cannibal CME. This particular subtype of CME is considered one of the most dangerous solar phenomena when it comes to triggering solar storms. Recently, the NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)…