Making fuel for exploring space
Our objective is to stand up the capability to make 1.5 kilograms of plutonium oxide annually, explained ORNL’s Bob Wham, who acts as the plutonium project’s integration manager. New...
Label-free technique that images DNA in vivo
Credit: PNAS, Fa-Ke Lu, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1515121112 (Phys.org)—A group of researchers from Harvard University report being able to observe DNA dynamics during cell division in vivo...
Innovative imaging technique reveals new cellular secrets
Optical approaches cannot resolve objects below certain wavelength limits, while non-optical approaches like electron microscopy (EM) can only study nonliving cells. Now, a team of r...
Ceres’ bright spots seen in striking new detail
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA The brightest spots on the dwarf planet Ceres gleam with mystery in new views delivered by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft. The new up-close view of...
Capturing introns: Targeting rapidly evolving regions of the genome for phylogenetics: New protocol for targeting intron-containing genes to resolve evolutionary relationships between closely related
By analyzing the similarities and differences between DNA sequences of different organisms, biologists can infer relatedness between them. The new study describes a method for target...
Best precision yet for neutrino measurements at Daya Bay
Measurements of these properties by the Daya Bay Collaboration are the most precise to date, an improvement of about a factor of two over previous measurements published by the colla...
Study reveals the genetic start-up of a human embryo
The study, which is being published in the journal Nature Communications, provides an in-depth understanding of early embryonic development in human – and scientists now hope that th...
Resistance genes from wild relatives of crops offer opportunities for more sustainable agriculture worldwide
These were the findings of an international scientific conference held in Wageningen on 3 September on the conclusion of a study into more durable resistance against Phytophthora thr...
Pluto’s moon Nix
For example, in 2005, two additional satellites were discovered in orbit of Pluto – Hydra and Nix. Discovery and Naming: Nix was discovered in June of 2005 by the Hubble Space Teles...
New Horizons spacecraft begins intensive data downlink phase
This iconic image of the mountains, informally named Norgay Montes (Norgay Mountains) was captured about 1 ½ hours before New Horizons’ closest approach to Pluto, when the craft was ...
Neuron responsible for alcoholism found: Researchers find neuron responsible for alcohol consumption, could stop cycle of alcoholism
Using an animal model, the researchers determined that alcohol actually changes the physical structure of medium spiny neurons, the main type of cell in the striatum. If these neuron...
Making nanowires from protein and DNA
Leadership Chair of Caltech’s Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, began with a computer program to design the type of protein and DNA that would work best as part of thei...
‘Littlest’ quark-gluon plasma revealed by physicists using Large Hadron Collider
LAWRENCE – Researchers at the University of Kansas working with an international team at the Large Hadron Collider have produced quark-gluon plasma – a state of matter thought to hav...
Humans artificially drive evolution of new species
Credit: Walkabout12 via Wikimedia Commons Species across the world are rapidly going extinct due to human activities, but humans are also causing rapid evolution and the emergence o...
How computers are learning to be creative
In this captivating demo, he shows how neural nets trained to recognize images can be run in reverse, to generate them. The results: spectacular, hallucinatory collages (and poems!) ...
Early Humans Climbed Down from Trees Gradually
The last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees may have had shoulders that were similar to those of modern African apes, researchers say. [See Images of Our Closest Human Ancesto...
Dawn sends sharper scenes from Ceres
The spacecraft’s view is now three times as sharp as in its previous mapping orbit, revealing exciting new details of this intriguing dwarf planet, said Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief eng...
DSCOVR is the linchpin of next-generation space weather forecasts
Even though the sun is 93 million miles away, activity on the surface of the sun can have significant impacts here on Earth, said Tom Berger, director of NOAA’s Space Weather Predict...
10 years of evolving biotech
The race to code the entire human genome started in the 1990s. We will have a $1,000 genome within the next five to eight years. And that is what makes microRNAs such a promising bio...
Scientists create world’s tiniest thermometer using DNA
Scientists have created the world’s tiniest thermometer that is 20,000 times smaller than a human hair, using DNA structures that can fold and unfold at specifically defined temperat...
NASA’s WFIRST mission set for go-ahead – Physics World
One for the future: NASA’s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope will aim to answer fundamental questions about the universe, dark energy and exoplanets. (Courtesy: NASA) NASA’s Wide...
NASA’s GRACE satellites evaluate drought in southeast Brazil
said Getirana. To answer them, he used data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites. The pair of satellites orbit Earth in precise formation and detect...
India launches ASTROSAT mission – Physics World
The mission took off yesterday on a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle from ISRO’s Satish Dhawan Space Centre, located in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. Dubbed ASTROSAT, the Rs3.7bn ($70m)...
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