Storing Data In DNA Brings Nature Into The Digital Universe
Researchers who hold the world record for storing and retrieving data in DNA explain how the building blocks of life can be used to hold digital information as well. Since we’re not ...
Shallow soils promote savannas in South America
Previous research has shown that precipitation and fire mediate tropical forest and savanna distributions. This is what Liam Langan and his team at the Senckenberg Biodiversity and C...
Scientists pinpoint jealousy in the monogamous mind: The first neurobiology study of jealousy in a monogamous primate species sheds light on the emotion that keeps couples together – but also tears t
Jealousy leads to increased brain activity in areas associated with social pain and pair bonding in monogamous monkeys, finds a study published today in open-access journal Frontiers...
Phenogenetic map created for stem cells models of neurological diseases
In an effort to better understand neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and ALS – and develop new ways to treat them – researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner M...
New machine learning system can automatically identify shapes of red blood cells
To automate the process of identifying red blood cell shape, Mengjia Xu of Northeastern University, China, and colleagues developed a computational framework that employs a machine-l...
New function in gene-regulatory protein discovered
DNA contains instructions for how the cell should assemble functional proteins. This RNA molecule is a copy of the gene that contains the instructions for a specific protein. RNA pol...
NASA: Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Has All the Basic Ingredients for Life
But there’s more. His team is planning to feed the AR’s visual information into a database and analyze it for insights with apps running on Predix. “I think the more we leverage augm...
NASA’s MAVEN mission finds Mars has a twisted magnetic tail
Mars has an invisible magnetic tail that is twisted by interaction with the solar wind, according to new research using data from NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft. According to the new work, ...
Nanomedicine researchers target disease at the molecular level
What exactly is a nanometer? Technology, in the broadest sense, has evolved to the point where we can look at things closer and closer and effectively work with smaller and smaller a...
Laser Focus: Computer Vision and Machine Learning Are Speeding Up 3D Printing
If something goes wrong near the end of the process, precious machine time and money could go to waste.The GE researchers are building a system that could speed up the process and ev...
Key psychiatric drug target comes into focus
Despite their importance, very little is known about the structures of the vast majority of GPCRs, including D4 and other dopamine receptors, making it challenging to design more pre...
Gene editing in the brain gets a major upgrade
When precursor brain cells mature into neurons, they are referred to as post-mitotic or nondividing cells, making the mature brain largely inaccessible to HDR - or so researchers pre...
Editing Human Embryos With CRISPR Is Moving Ahead – Now’s The Time To Work Out The Ethics
Evidence of more successful (and thus safer) CRISPR use may lead to additional studies involving human embryos.First, this study did not entail the creation of “designer babies,” des...
Cities Of 2050: Data And Tech Will Fuel The Megacities Of The Future
The rise of Big Data and advanced modeling technology make it possible to plan and prioritize infrastructure investment with greater foresight, better communicate potential outcomes,...
Breakthrough in ultra-fast data processing at nanoscale
A research team led by Associate Professor Christian Nijhuis from the Department of Chemistry at the NUS Faculty of Science (second from right) has recently invented a novel “convert...
Achievement unlocked: TEDx celebrates 100,000 talks!
Ideas never sleep — and neither does the TEDx archive. Since going online in 2009, the archive has amassed thousands of perspective-shifting talks from across the world — and we’ve j...
5 Infographics That Explain One Year Of Blockchain News
Last spring, the biggest headline in the blockchain world was that an Australian entrepreneur, Craig Wright, finally A Quid timeline maps 3,409 stories about blockchain, colored b...
10 years of the trapped rainbow—the revolution of slow light
Credit: Imperial College London A decade on from suggesting light can be dramatically slowed - or even stopped - by new materials, Ortwin Hess reviews the progress and applications....
Why you need to get involved in the geoengineering debate – now
There are many touted methods of engineering the climate. The first is greenhouse gas removal: those ideas that would seek to remove and store carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas...
The international Human Cell Atlas publishes strategic blueprint, announces data from first one million cells
The blueprint’s release—posted as a white paper to the HCA website—coincides with the publication of a Nature commentary by the HCA organizing committee summarizing the consortium’s ...
Svante Pääbo to receive the 2018 HFSP Nakasone Award
The Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) has announced that the 2018 HFSP Nakasone Award has been awarded to Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary ...
Stem cell platform sheds new light on beginnings of human development
Since it’s an artificial, engineered environment that can mimic some of the fundamental organizing principles that we think are important for human embryo development, our platform h...
Soon, The Only Tech Jobs Will Be Design Or Data
We were talking a few years ago about how far tooling and automation had come along in software engineering. He suggested that, in the very near future, there would be only two jobs ...
Scientists reveal ‘superbug’s’ artillery
Credit: Monash University Monash University’s Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) researchers have created the first high-resolution structure depicting a crucial part of the ‘sup...
Researchers observe individual cellular receptors at work
The receptors and G proteins undergo transient interactions, which occur preferentially at “hot spots” on the cell membrane. Credit: Team Calebiro Using a revolutionary live-cell mi...