Study validates monkey model of visual perception
A new study from The Journal of Neuroscience shows that humans and rhesus monkeys have very similar abilities in recognizing objects at a glance, validating the use of this animal mo...
Sequencing of barley genome achieves new milestone: Researchers improves a resource used worldwide
The researchers have sequenced large portions of the genome that together contain nearly two-thirds of all barley genes. When a favorable form of a gene (allele) lies within a gene-d...
Sentinel-1B prepares for liftoff (April 2016)
This timelapse video shows Sentinel-1B, from final preparations to liftoff on a Soyuz launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, on 25 April 2016 at 21:02 GMT (23:02 CEST). W...
Self-healing material could plug life-threatening holes in spacecraft
Although shields and fancy maneuvers could help protect space structures, scientists have to prepare for the possibility that debris could pierce a vessel. But should the bumpers fai...
Orbital ATK on the rebound with Antares return to flight in 2016
Return to flight launch is expected sometime during Spring 2016. Credit: NASA/ Terry Zaperach Orbital ATK is on the rebound with return to flight of their Antares rocket slated in e...
Nearly 1 in 5 Children and Teens Are Obese
The report, released today (Aug. 25) by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shows that 17.5 percent of children and adolescents ages 3 to 19 are now obese....
NASA concludes series of engine tests for next-gen rocket
Credit: NASA NASA has completed the first developmental test series on the RS-25 engines that will power the agency’s new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on missions deeper into sp...
Light-matter interplay probed: Physicists achieve quantum Hall state with light
We make the photons spin, which leads to a force that has the same effect as a magnetic field, explained Schine. While the light is trapped, it behaves like the electrons in a quantu...
James Webb Space Telescope backplane arrives at NASA Goddard for mirror assembly
The James Webb Space Telescope’s spine or backplane arrived on Aug. 25 at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland from Northrop Grumman. Credit: NASA Goddard/Chris ...
Injectable cryogel-based whole-cell cancer vaccines: A new minimally invasive vaccine that combines cancer cells and immune-enhancing factors offers a promising strategy against patient-specific cance
Mooney, who leads a Wyss Institute team developing a broad suite of novel cancer vaccines and immunotherapies, is also the Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering at the ...
How the mind sharpens the senses
A study conducted with experienced scholars of Zen-Meditation shows that mental focussing can induce learning mechanisms, similar to physical training. Additionally, some participant...
Has Stephen Hawking Just Solved a Huge Black-Hole Mystery?
Stephen Hawking may have just solved one of the most vexing mysteries in physics — the information paradox. Hawking — working with Malcolm Perry, of the University of Cambridge in En...
Glitter from silver lights up Alzheimer’s dark secrets
While the origin of Alzheimer’s Disease, one that robs the old of their memory, is still hotly debated, it is likely that a specific form of the Amyloid beta molecule, which is able ...
Engineers develop a new biosensor chip for detecting DNA mutations
The biosensor chip—consisting of a double stranded DNA probe embedded onto a graphene transistor—electronically detects DNA SNPs. In this study, the DNA probe is a double helix conta...
Does Marijuana Change the Brain?
And several studies have found that people who smoke pot are more likely to develop schizophrenia than those who don’t use the drug. The team found that teens who had smoked pot — ev...
Degenerating neurons respond to gene therapy treatment for Alzheimer’s disease: Postmortem brain studies suggest nerve growth factor safely triggered functional cell growth
Degenerating neurons in patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) measurably responded to an experimental gene therapy in which nerve growth factor (NGF) was injected into their brains,...
Deep learning system for drug discovery to be presented at the Machine Intelligence Summit in Berlin
June 14, 2016, Baltimore, MD, Following the publication of the first proof of concept of predicting the functional properties of drugs by their transcriptional response signature, sc...
Ceres image: The lonely mountain
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA NASA’s Dawn spacecraft spotted this tall, conical mountain on Ceres from a distance of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers). Its perimeter is sharp...
Cannabis use may influence cortical maturation in adolescent males: …who have a high genetic risk for schizophrenia
Male teens who experiment with cannabis before age 16, and have a high genetic risk for schizophrenia, show a different brain development trajectory than low risk peers who use canna...
Botanists conduct first large-scale genetic study of marijuana, hemp
Credit: Jonathan Page A study by Canadian researchers is providing a clearer picture of the evolutionary history and genetic organization of cannabis, a step that could have agricul...
At the origin of language structure
A team from SISSA’s Language, Cognition and Development Lab (along with two Iranian institutions) studied the mechanism that controls the transition from the SOV form, considered the...
Antimatter catches a wave: Accelerating positrons with plasma is a step toward smaller, cheaper particle colliders
The method may help boost the energy and shrink the size of future linear particle colliders - powerful accelerators that could be used to unravel the properties of nature’s fundamen...
All creatures great and small: London Zoo weighs 17,000 animals
A humboldt penguin is weighed at London Zoo on August 26, 2015 during the zoo’s annual weigh-in London Zoo on Wednesday carried out its annual weigh-in as it sought to keep track of...
Young star offers a glimpse of the Sun’s past
It may look like a star, it may be called a star, but it does not yet generate energy like a normal star. Located 1800 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, V1331 Cyg was ori...
What’s so sexy about math?
Hidden truths permeate our world; they’re inaccessible to our senses, but math allows us to go beyond our intuition to uncover their mysteries. In this survey of mathematical breakth...