Improving computer graphics with quantum mechanics
Caltech applied scientists have developed a new way to simulate large-scale motion numerically using the mathematics that govern the universe at the quantum level. The new technique,...
How comets are born
Science & Exploration How comets are born 28/07/2016 14619 views 135 likes Detailed analysis of data collected by Rosetta show that comets are the ancient leftovers of early Sol...
Americans worried about using gene editing, brain chip implants and synthetic blood
US adults show more concern than enthusiasm for using these to ‘enhance’ human abilities WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 26, 2016) - Many in the general public think scientific and technolog...
What Is Lithium?
It’s also used in mental health: Lithium carbonate is a common treatment of bipolar disorder, helping to stabilize wild mood swings caused by the illness. In a study with worms, biol...
Stunning new Pluto aerial tour
The mosaic starts with images of the heart of Pluto – informally named Tombaugh Regio – and the immediate surrounding area that are up to 400 m/px. The mosaic then includes other ima...
Mysterious neutrinos take the stage at SLAC
To find out more about the elusive particles and their potential links to cosmic evolution, invisible dark matter and matter’s dominance over antimatter in the universe, the Departme...
How the brain encodes time and place: Neuroscientists identify a brain circuit that is critical for forming episodic memories
MIT neuroscientists have now identified a brain circuit that processes the when and where components of memory. The researchers also identified two populations of neurons in the ento...
Horwitz Prize awarded for research revealing how the brain is wired
NEW YORK, NY (September 22, 2015) – Columbia University will award the 2015 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to S. Lawrence Zipursky, PhD, for discovering a molecular identification system...
Decision-making involves a little known brain region in the thalamus
The team then tested the role of these two brain structures (the submedius thalamic nucleus and orbitofrontal cortex) in decision-making and adaptive behavior. The initial learning p...
Adolescent brain may be especially sensitive to new memories, social stress, and drug use
Adolescence, like infancy, has been said to include distinct sensitive periods during which brain plasticity is heightened; but in a review of the neuroscience literature published o...
World’s most sensitive dark matter detector completes search
That enables scientists to confidently eliminate many potential models for dark matter particles, offering critical guidance for the next generation of dark matter experiments. With ...
Penn study models how the immune system might evolve to conquer HIV
Yet the body’s immune system can also evolve. Their findings, which suggest that presenting the immune system with a large diversity of viral antigens may be the best way to encourag...
Mars navigation
To achieve this amazing level of accuracy, ESA experts are making use of ‘quasars’ – the most luminous objects in the Universe – as ‘calibrators’ in a technique known as Delta-Differ...
Humans perceive time somewhere in between reality and our expectations
The findings, published in Scientific Reports, displayed that participants anticipated future occurrences of the stimuli in line with the regular pattern, but the perceived accuracy ...
Comprehensive map of primate brain development published in Nature
Researchers at the Allen Institute for Brain Science have published an in-depth analysis of a comprehensive molecular atlas of brain development in the non-human primate. This analys...
Berkeley Lab scientists grow atomically thin transistors and circuits
In an advance that helps pave the way for next-generation electronics and computing technologies–and possibly paper-thin gadgets –scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawr...
Why don’t plants get sunburn?
Others need some exposure to sun to induce protective skin pigments by developing a sun tan. Is there a plant equivalent to sunburn or to the protective pigments we have in our skin?...
Researchers blur the line between classical and quantum physics by connecting chaos and entanglement
Experimental link between quantum entanglement (left) and classical chaos (right) found using a small quantum computer. It consists of hundreds of years’ worth of study including New...
NASA’s PACE mission will uncover new information about health of our oceans
PACE will use a wide spectrum of wavelengths from an ocean color instrument to provide scientists with this information. We are going to go beyond just seeing that Earth’s climate is...
Learn an instrument with this open source music teacher
But, the heart of Nootka is the exercises and exams. The app asks a question which can be: a single note or whole melody on the score, a position on the guitar, a played melody, or j...
Lab storing information securely in DNA
Marlene Bachand, a biological engineer at Sandia and George Bachand’s spouse, added, We are taking advantage of a biological component, DNA, and using its unique ability to encode hu...
How do you turn a mosquito’s genes on and off?
The research project, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), could have implications for disease control, potentially facilitating efforts to use genetic engineering to c...
First completely scalable quantum simulation of a molecule
In a paper uploaded to the open access journal Physical Review X, the team describes the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) approach they used to create and solve one of the first...
ESA commits to next stage of UK revolutionary rocket engine
Enabling & Support ESA commits to next stage of UK revolutionary rocket engine 12/07/2016 25643 views 295 likes The UK’s Farnborough airshow today saw ESA’s commitment to the ne...
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