Chile’s salt flat
The region pictured lies around 200km east of the Chilean city of Antofagasta on the Pacific coast (not pictured), and is virtually devoid of vegetation. At the top of the image we c...
Capturing cell growth in 3-D
AIM Biotech’s microfluidics device (shown here) has and array of culturing sections, each with three chambers: a middle chamber for hydrogel and any cell type, and two side channels ...
Worcester Polytechnic Institute team awarded patent for reprograming skin cells
Based on research conducted at WPI, the method of converting human skin cells into engines of wound healing and tissue regeneration may accelerate cell therapies for a range of serio...
What’s coming after Hubble and James Webb? The High-Definition Space Telescope
Credit: D. Ceverino, C. Moody, G. Snyder, and Z. Levay (STScI) As the HDST’s name suggests, its 12-meter wide segmented mirror would give it much higher resolution than any current ...
Stanford researchers genetically engineer yeast to produce opioids
A process that had taken a year from farm to pharmaceutical factory now occurs in three to five days in yeast genetically engineered to biosynthesize the active ingredients for opioi...
Scientists discover what controls waking up and going to sleep: Simple 2-cycle mechanism turns key brain neurons on or off during 24-hour day
The clock’s mechanism, it turns out, is much like a light switch. In a study of brain circadian neurons that govern the daily sleep-wake cycle’s timing, Allada and his research team ...
Science instruments of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope successfully installed
With surgical precision, two dozen engineers and technicians successfully installed the package of science instruments of the James Webb Space Telescope into the telescope structure....
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission will have a map for that
The mission also will investigate how pressure from sunlight influences the path of this traveling asteroid. This information will be used to produce four top-level maps for identify...
MicroBooNE experiment sees first cosmic muons
This is the first detector of this size and scale we’ve ever launched in the U.S. for use in a neutrino beam, so it’s a very important milestone for the future of neutrino physics, s...
Mars Webcam goes pro
In 2007, ESA’s flight controllers switched it back on to see if it could still be used, possibly for education or science outreach, without interfering with routine operations or the...
Mars Triptych
The image at left was taken on 22 May by amateur astrophotographer Dylan O’Donnell from his home-built backyard observatory in Byron Bay, New South Wales. On 22 May, Mars was at oppo...
How do ants identify different members of their society?
The cuticle of the workers and the queen is enriched with specific hydrocarbons, many of which act as pheromones and are sensed by others in the colony. Reporting today in the journa...
Galileo 13 & 14 - Liftoff replay
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Cosmic mystery deepens with discovery of new ultra-high-energy neutrino
The researchers’ main analysis objective was to confirm previous IceCube measurements of other astrophysical neutrinos. Scientists have hoped that ultra-high-energy neutrinos could p...
Rapid eye movements in sleep reset dream ‘snapshots’: Researchers find eye movements during REM sleep reflect brain activity patterns associated with new images
Because REM sleep is associated with dreaming, on the one hand, and eye movement, on the other, it has been tempting to assume that each movement of the eye is associated with a spec...
Mystery Deepens: Matter and Antimatter Are Mirror Images
Matter and antimatter appear to be perfect mirror images of each other as far as anyone can see, scientists have discovered with unprecedented precision, foiling hope of solving the ...
Eye shape reveals whether animal is predator or prey – Physics World
Ambush eyes: domestic cats have vertical pupils A link between pupil shape and the feeding behaviour of animals has been made by studying the eyes of 214 species. Their models sugge...
Curcumin and turmeric: Improving the therapeutic benefits by enhancing absorption and bioavailability
Success in translating this potential into tangible benefits has been limited by inherently poor intestinal absorption, rapid metabolism, and limited systemic bioavailability. Seekin...
Attosecond physics: A switch for light-wave electronics
Now a team led by Ferenc Krausz, who holds a Chair in Experimental Physics at LMU and is a Director of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, in collaboration with ...
Astronomers confirm faintest early-universe galaxy ever seen
An international team of scientists, including two professors and three graduate students from UCLA, has detected and confirmed the faintest early-universe galaxy ever. Using the W. ...
A guide to CRISPR gene activation
To that end, they have built a number of synthetic gene activating Cas9 proteins to study gene functions or to compensate for insufficient gene expression in potential therapeutic ap...
Shedding light on the ‘dark matter’ of the genome
Now, Professor Benjamin Blencowe’s team at the University of Toronto’s Donnelly Centre, including lead authors Eesha Sharma and Tim Sterne-Weiler, have developed a method, described ...
Rub al Khali
Rolling sand dunes in the expansive Rub’ al Khali desert on the southern Arabian Peninsula are pictured in this image from the Sentinel-2A satellite. Precipitation rarely exceeds 35 ...
Noise Annoyance Is Associated with Depression and Anxiety in the General Population- The Contribution of Aircraft Noise
Interpretation Strong noise annoyance was associated with a two-fold higher prevalence of depression and anxiety in the general population. Nearly twice the number of women reported ...
NASA’s Van Allen Probes reveal long-term behavior of Earth’s ring current
Using data gathered by the Radiation Belt Storm Probes Ion Composition Experiment, or RBSPICE, on one of the Van Allen Probes, researchers have determined that the high-energy proton...