Atomic oxygen detected in Martian atmosphere
Scientists have detected atomic oxygen in the atmosphere of Mars for the first time since the last observation 40 years ago. These atoms were found in the upper layers of the Martian...
Ancient genomes reveal that the English are one-third Anglo-Saxon
For the first time, researchers have been able to directly estimate the Anglo-Saxon ancestry of the British population from ancient skeletons, showing how Anglo-Saxon immigrants mixe...
What did Earth’s ancient magnetic field look like?
This motion is driven by the loss of heat from the core and the solidification of the inner core. Could this exception be explained by a major event like the solidification of the pl...
Time-lapse analysis offers new look at how cells repair DNA damage
Now, scientists from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are using a similar approach to study how cells repair DNA damage. Another method...
The symmetry of the universe
A state is created that is very similar to the one after the Big Bang, explains Laura Fabbietti, Professor in the Physics Department. According to the CPT theorem (charge, parity, ti...
Simulations foresee hordes of colliding black holes in LIGO’s future
Here we simulate binary stars, how they evolve, turn into black holes, and eventually get close enough to crash into each other and make gravitational waves that we would observe, Ho...
Insects were already using camouflage 100 million years ago
Insects were already doing something very similar in the Cretaceous: They cloaked themselves in pieces of plants, grains of sand, or the remains of their prey, in order, for example,...
First imagery from echolocation reveals new signals for hunting bats
Only a third of all bat species are able to hunt for prey on surfaces. In the new study, researchers in Bristol developed a new imaging technique to allow them to enter the bat’s wor...
CT scan of Earth links deep mantle plumes with volcanic hotspots
Previous attempts to image mantle plumes have detected pockets of hot rock rising in areas where plumes have been proposed, but it was unclear whether they were connected to volcanic...
The Science of How Our Minds and Our Bodies Converge in the Healing of Trauma
Trauma and its psychological consequences, Van der Kolk argues, is not a mental disease but an adaptation. Education, Van der Kolk notes, tends to engage the cognitive capacities of ...
Sentinel-2B entering LSS
ESA’s Sentinel-2B Earth-observing satellite being lowered into Europe’s largest vacuum chamber, at the start of a test campaign to ensure it is ready to serve in space. Meanwhile, li...
Sentinel-1 satellites combine radar vision
Applications Sentinel-1 satellites combine radar vision 22/06/2016 14114 views 133 likes The twin Sentinel-1 satellites have – for the first time – combined to show their capability...
Russian physicists create a high-precision ‘quantum ruler’
This technique will enable us to use quantum effects to increase the accuracy of measuring the distance between observers that are separated from one another by a medium with losses....
Researchers develop technique to produce a direct image of the DNA helix and its inner structure
Credit: KAUST Enzo di Fabrizio and his team have developed a new technique to produce a direct image of the DNA helix and its inner structure. Then in 2012, Enzo di Fabrizio and his...
Personalized medicine will employ computer algorithms
However, any living organism contains another gene sequence that is called the metagenome.It is the total DNAcontent of the many different microorganisms that inhabit the same enviro...
Mapping coal’s decline and the renewables’ rise
Coal, after all, is cheap—or so it seems. The online tool they’ve created to help illustrate this argument is CoalMap, a web application that compares the levelized cost of electrici...
KM3NeT unveils detailed plans for largest neutrino telescope in the world
Deep-sea array will soak up signals from neutrinos traveling through the cosmos to study the evolution of the universe and to discover more about the fundamental properties of these ...
Hubble confirms new dark spot on Neptune
New images obtained on May 16, 2016, by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope confirm the presence of a dark vortex in the atmosphere of Neptune. Though similar features were seen during the...
Food may be addictive: Food craving may be ‘hard-wired’ in the brain
This indicates that the tendency to want food may be ‘hard-wired’ into the brain of overweight patients, becoming a functional brain biomarker. Recently, studies are beginning to sug...
Early human diet explains our eating habits
The researchers contend that it was digestible starches that provided extra energy needed to fuel the energy needs of bigger brains, rather than extra protein from meat to grow these...
Artificial synapse rivals biological ones in energy consumption
POSTECH researchers develop an organic nanofiber based artificial synapse that emulates both important functions and energy consumption of biological ones: Implication of potential u...
Artificial leaf harnesses sunlight for efficient fuel production
Over the past five years, researchers at JCAP have made major advances toward this goal, and they now report the development of the first complete, efficient, safe, integrated solar-...
African subterranean animal exhibits ‘extraordinary’ cancer resistance
Mole-rats live up to 30 years, 10 times longer than mice, and captured colonies almost never show any type of cancer. When the mole-rats’ iPSCs were inserted into the testes of mice ...
10 years of TED Talks keeping pace with history
The following wave of demonstrations and protests resulted in President Mubarak’s resignation and much later, a draft for a new constitution. The whistleblower — and the whistleblowe...
Why genetic research must be more diverse
Ninety-six percent of genome studies are based on people of European descent. The rest of the world is virtually unrepresented – and this is dangerous, says geneticist and TED Fellow...