Mathematically modeling HIV drug pharmacodynamics
Viral reservoirs exist within resting CD4+ memory T-cells that maintain replication-competent HIV for extended time periods, allowing viral persistence even in the face of immune sur...
From Light To Bright: San Diego Is Building The World’s Largest Municipal Internet Of Things
It just degrades over time.”As GE replaced the lights, San Diego asked for a better way to monitor the LEDs. “Now we know exactly how much energy a streetlight is using,” Graham says...
Flowers’ secret signal to bees and other amazing nanotechnologies hidden in plants
But some flowers also use iridescence, a different type of colour produced when light reflects from microscopically spaced structures or surfaces. And they weren’t quite perfect in v...
Automation Isn’t The End Of The World – Here’s Why
What keeps you up at night? It is true: It is true: if a routine task can be performed cheaper, faster and better by a robot, there is a chance it will be . What is also true – an...
Amazon Turns To Wind To Power Its Business
Above: Amazon today announced that its largest wind farm yet—Amazon Wind Farm Texas—is now up and running, adding more than 1,000,000 MWh of clean energy to the grid each year. In fa...
What Is Synesthesia?
Most people with the condition experience at least two types of synesthesia. Some other types of synesthesia include the following: Smelling certain scents when hearing certain soun...
Whale behaviour linked to brain size
In terms of sheer brain size, the sperm whale is top on Earth, with a brain six times larger than that of a human being. Therefore, we have only a glimpse of what they are capable of...
We can hack our immune cells to fight cancer
After decades of research and billions spent in clinical trials, we still have a problem with cancer drug delivery, says biomedical engineer Elizabeth Wayne. Chemotherapy kills cance...
Schizophrenia disrupts the brain’s entire communication system, researchers say: Wiring is frayed in more than just one region, according to a new international study
We can definitively say for the first time that schizophrenia is a disorder where white matter wiring is frayed throughout the brain, said Kelly, a researcher at the USC Mark and Mar...
Quantum computing—breaking through the 49 qubit simulation barrier
That insight immediately led to the idea of pulling a grid circuit apart into individual bristle brushes, one for each qubit, then computing the corresponding tensors, and finally co...
Physics boosts artificial intelligence methods
Researchers from Caltech and the University of Southern California (USC) report the first application of quantum computing to a physics problem. Despite the central role of physics i...
Love After Life: Nobel-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman’s Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife
In early 1945, two and a half years into their marriage, Richard and Arline made love for the first time. I want to tell you I love you. I want to love you. But you can’t help it, da...
Learning during development is regulated by an unexpected brain region
Half a century of research on how the brain learns to integrate visual inputs from the two eyes has provided important insights in critical period regulation, leading to the conclusi...
Duplications of noncoding DNA may have affected evolution of human-specific traits
Duplications of large segments of noncoding DNA in the human genome may have contributed to the emergence of differences between humans and nonhuman primates, according to results pr...
Chemists develop a promising drug synthesis method
The results of the work are published in Tetrahedron Letters. Our latest development simplifies and reduces the cost of one of the stages in active ingredients production, says Anton...
A mission to Mars could make its own oxygen via plasma technology
Lead author Dr Vasco Guerra, from the University of Lisbon, said: Sending a manned mission to Mars is one of the next major steps in our exploration of space. Low temperature plasmas...
Whales and dolphins have rich ‘human-like’ cultures and societies
The study is first of its kind to create a large dataset of cetacean brain size and social behaviours. We know whales and dolphins also have exceptionally large and anatomically soph...
Webcam on Mars Express surveys high-altitude clouds
Science & Exploration Webcam on Mars Express surveys high-altitude clouds 17/10/2017 8193 views 104 likes An unprecedented catalogue of more than 21 000 images taken by a webcam...
SimPath licenses novel ORNL system for enhanced synthetic biology
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Oct. 16, 2017–SimPath has licensed a novel cloning system developed by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory that generates and assembles the bio...
Revealing quantum statistics with a pair of distant atoms
After all, to you, both cups look completely identical. Playing a game such as Find the Lady in the quantum world has now been proposed by physicists at the Institute of Applied Phys...
Researchers take a step toward quantum mechanical analysis of plant metabolism
Contrary to a quantum computer, however, it is not able to make any calculations, but is designed for the solution of a certain problem, says Jochen Braumüller of KIT’s Physikalische...
Researchers developed single cell level sorting technology using sound waves
Dr Ai’s research team recently developed a highly accurate single cell level sorting technology using a highly focused sound wave beam (50 μm wide roughly ¼ of a single human hair’s ...
Quantum physics paves the way for new chemical products
Credit: Open University Research by an OU molecular physicist has discovered that electrons can control chemical reactions in experiments leading to purer, cheaper chemical products...
LIGO announces detection of gravitational waves from colliding neutron stars
The result is the first measurement of a gravitational wave event in multiple mediums–optical, gamma ray and X-ray as well as gravitational waves–and scientists said the combination ...
International team observes first radio counterpart to gravitational waves
Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Radio Astrophysics and Sensing Section, in collaboration with an international team from the Caltech-led Global Relay of Observatories Watching Trans...