By studying how seismic waves travel through frozen soil on Earth, a University of Maryland geophysicist helped develop a better way to detect water ice on the moon—a critical resource for future astronauts and extended lunar missions.

During ketamine anesthesia, the brain’s nerve cells fall silent—as consciousness returns, they begin to reconnect. For the first time, researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) have shown that immune cells in the brain play a critical role in this process—with differences between female and male brains. The findings were published in Science Advances.

Researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, in collaboration with scientists at the Allen Institute, discovered that when female mice are recovering from a single ketamine sedation, their brains become much more active than their male counterparts, specifically their microglia.