On November 3, the EPA approved the release of male Asian tiger mosquitoes infected with a bacterium that prevents them from successfully reproducing. Kentucky-based biotech company ...
This timelapse video shows Sentinel-5P satellite, from final preparations to liftoff on a Rockot launcher, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia, on 13 October 2017. The Se...
Seeking a better way to capture radioactive iodides in spent nuclear reactor fuel, Rutgers-New Brunswick scientists have developed an extremely efficient molecular trap that can be r...
Credit: Wageningen University Scientists from Wageningen University & Research have found natural genetic variation for photosynthesis in plants and are unravelling it to the DN...
In a major advance on previous work, the study found a compound commonly used in hair bleach, hydrogen peroxide, made the eventual emergence of life possible. Lead researcher Associa...
In a new study published in Nature, researchers in these two academic fields have joined forces at the University of Pennsylvania to solve an essential problem of how languages evolv...
This multi-institute collaborative effort demonstrates a nice use of DNA nanotechnology to spatially control and organize chromophores for future excitonic networks, Yan said Light ...
These enzymes cut a gene that’s present in liver cells, inserting a functional copy of the gene that produces the desired enzyme. The treatment was developed by Sangamo Therapeutics,...
Specifically, the study explored linear features – the chains of pits and small, secondary craters common on Ceres. Secondary crater chains, the most common of the linear features, a...
In a new study, MIT researchers have developed nanoparticles that can deliver the CRISPR genome-editing system and specifically modify genes in mice. “What’s really exciting here is ...
Using a molecular method likely to become widely adopted by the field, researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health have discovered brain circuitry essential for alertn...
With expertise in robotics, bioengineering, behavioral science, nerve regeneration, electrophysiology, microfluidic devices, and orthopedic surgery, the research team is creating a l...
As we build cities, we have little understanding of how they are influencing organisms that live there, says Johnson, who is also director of the University of Toronto’s Centre for U...
New data suggests the total population of flying insects there has declined a whopping 75% in the past 27 years. A study released Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE details a longitud...
Have you ever wanted to walk in the footsteps of Nelson Mandela, track cheetahs on foot, or stroll with elephants — and other exotic creatures — in South Africa? SIGN UP Said Magdal...
Establishing a Lunar Habitat Now that the United States is officially getting back into space exploration, the Moon now seems to be the focus — or at least the starting point — of a...
The mission team made plans for one final science collection beginning in mid-October, when the satellites would be in full view of the Sun. All mission activities involving GRACE-1 ...
In the next few years, quantum computers will usher in the next great era in computing technology. Their successful creation will be a paradigm-shifting achievement…one that will for...
Effects from September’s solar activity were observed as Martian aurora and across the globe on Earth, in the form of events known as ground-level enhancements – showers of neutrons ...
When Galactic Cosmic Rays reach the planet’s atmosphere, it sets in motion a chain of reactions, at the end of which high-energy electrons and protons are created. In the first years...
The result means that the magnetic moment of the antiproton is now known even more precisely than the magnetic moment of the proton itself. Crucial to the 350-fold improvement in pre...
One reason why testing quantum gravity is so challenging is that its effects appear only at very high-energy scales and their corresponding tiny length scales. Many proposed theories...
Credit: Max Brice and Julien Ordan/CERN Today, CERN Control Centre operators announced good news, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has successfully met its production target for 2017...
While a classical computer works with bits as information placeholders, a quantum computer works with quantum bits (qubits). Meanwhile, entanglement allows particles to be manipulate...
CRISPR/Cas9 frequently makes the headlines as it allows medical researchers to accurately manipulate the human genome – opening up new possibilities for treating diseases. Using this...