How machine learning can help with voice disorders
Using accelerometer data collected from a wearable device developed by researchers at the MGH Voice Center, researchers demonstrated that they can detect differences between subjects...
Fossilized rivers suggest warm, wet ancient Mars
Extensive systems of fossilised riverbeds have been discovered on an ancient region of the Martian surface, supporting the idea that the now cold and dry Red Planet had a warm and we...
Spotlight on Schiaparelli’s landing site
Science & Exploration Spotlight on Schiaparelli’s landing site 11/08/2016 16372 views 168 likes Schiaparelli, the Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module of the joint ESA...
Revolutionary method to map brains at single-neuron resolution successfully demonstrated
The new method, called MAPseq (Multiplexed Analysis of Projections by Sequencing), makes it possible in a single experiment to trace the long-range projections of large numbers of in...
Researchers find most volcanic activity on Mercury stopped about 3.5 billion years ago
New research from North Carolina State University finds that major volcanic activity on the planet Mercury most likely ended about 3.5 billion years ago. These findings add insight i...
Decades of discovery: NASA’s exploration of Jupiter
Plus, for the first time, scientists discovered the existence of active volcanoes elsewhere than Earth, on the planet’s moon Io. Unlike previous missions, this set of spacecraft – an...
What a planet needs to sustain life
Venus is too hot, Mars is too cold, and Earth is just right, says planetary scientist Dave Brain. But why? In this pleasantly humorous talk, Brain explores the fascinating science be...
Schizophrenia simulator: When chemistry upends sanity’s balance
Cognitive symptoms were actually associated with schizophrenia before symptoms like hallucinations became the focus, said Eberhard Voit, a Georgia Tech biomedical engineer and a Geor...
Researchers have developed a new class of artificial proteins
Nature has created a host of proteins, which come in many forms, and which have many functions in our body. In spite of this natural diversity, in the past 20 years or so there has b...
Researchers discover that DNA naturally fluoresces
For decades, textbooks have stated that macromolecules within living cells, such as DNA, RNA, and proteins, do not fluoresce on their own. There are textbooks that say biological mol...
New material discovery allows study of elusive Weyl fermion
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have discovered a new type of Weyl semimetal, a material that opens the way for further study of Weyl fermions, a type ...
Large human brain evolved as a result of ‘sizing each other up’
Lead author of the study Professor Roger Whitaker, from Cardiff University’s School of Computer Science and Informatics, said: Our results suggest that the evolution of cooperation, ...
‘Fixing’ blood vessel cells to diagnose blood clotting disorders
In normal ‘hemostasis’, the endothelium prevents deadly blood loss and clot formation. Now, a team led by Ingber at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvar...
Directly reprogramming a cell’s identity with gene editing
If you want to change that destination, one option is to push the cell vertically back up the mountain – that’s the idea behind reprogramming cells to be induced pluripotent stem cel...
De-icing agent remains stable at more than a million atmospheres of pressure
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have combined X-ray diffraction and vibrational spectroscopy measurements together with first-principle calculations to examine the ...
Brain-machine interface triggers recovery for paraplegic patients
This unprecedented scientific demonstration was the work of the Walk Again Project (WAP), a nonprofit, international research consortium that includes Alan Rudolph, vice president fo...
Accelerating materials discovery
August 15, 2016 - A powerful materials discovery platform created at Harvard University to dramatically accelerate the process of screening millions of molecules for use in future...
NASA confirms evidence that liquid water flows on today’s Mars (Update)
Using an imaging spectrometer on MRO, researchers detected signatures of hydrated minerals on slopes where mysterious streaks are seen on the Red Planet. These downhill flows, known ...
What powers the pumping heart?
In addition to providing a new understanding of what makes our hearts pump, these findings could also help researchers uncover new information about how heart disease affects the sig...
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Root microbiome engineering improves plant growth
Humans have been breeding crops until they’re bigger and more nutritious since the early days of agriculture, but genetic manipulation isn’t the only way to give plants a boost. In a...
Quantum theory and Einstein’s special relativity applied to plasma physics issues
Physicists want to know the strength of the magnetic field and density of the plasma that surrounds these pulsars, which can be millions of times greater than the density of plasma i...
Image: Unprecedented detail in enhanced high-resolution color image of Pluto
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto on July 14, 2015. Pluto’s surface sports a remarkable range of sub...
Icelandic volcano’s toxic gas is triple that of Europe’s industry
Discharge of lava from the eruption at Bárðarbunga volcano released a huge mass – up to 120,000 tonnes per day – of sulphur dioxide gas, which can cause acid rain and respiratory pro...
DNA-based nanodevices for molecular medicine
Furthermore, the researchers from Aalto University and University of Jyväskylä have recently shown how DNA origamis can be used in efficient fabrication of custom-shaped metal nanopa...