Neptune’s moon of Triton
Global Color Mosaic of Triton, taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989. Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS The planets of the outer solar system are known for being strange, as are their many ...
Latest results from the LHC experiments
Nevertheless, the LHC experiments have already recorded 100 times more data for the summer conferences this year than they had around the same time after the LHC started up at 7 TeV ...
Japanese firm to mature whisky in space
Japanese whisky will be sent into space next month to test how time in a zero-gravity environment affects its flavour, one of the country’s biggest drinks makers said Friday. Samples...
In CRISPR advance, scientists successfully edit human T cells: Research has implications for autoimmune diseases, AIDS, cancer
But in practice, editing T cell genomes with CRISPR/Cas9 has proved surprisingly difficult, said Alexander Marson, PhD, a UCSF Sandler Fellow, and senior and co-corresponding author ...
Image: Hubble sees a dying star’s final moments
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Matej Novak A dying star’s final moments are captured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The death throes of thi...
How to make chromosomes from DNA
DNA molecules are long, string-like polymers storing the genetic information of life and, in a cell, are tightly packed into structures called chromosomes. Researchers at the Univers...
Fermilab experiment sees neutrinos change over 500 miles
The longer of the two tracks in each view is identified as a high-energy electron, telling us that this is likely an electron neutrino interaction. Researchers have collected data ag...
Facts About Tin
Uses of tin Perhaps the most important use of tin, historically, has been to make bronze — an alloy of copper and tin or other metals — that changed civilization by ushering in the ...
‘Expansion entropy’: A new litmus test for chaos?
Now, researchers from the University of Maryland have described a new definition of chaos that applies more broadly than previous definitions. This new definition is compact, can be ...
Wind energy provides 8% of Europe’s electricity
According to a JRC report, the impressive growth of the industry will allow at least 12% electricity share by 2020, a significant contribution to the goal of the European energy and ...
Why do mitochondria retain their own genome?
Over millennia, the genomes of mitochondria evolved under selection for minimal gene content, but researchers have been unable to determine why some but not all mitochondrial genes h...
What Is Static Electricity?
According to the University of Hawaii, “When two objects are rubbed together to create static electricity, one object gives up electrons and becomes more positively charged while the...
Weyl fermions are spotted at long last – Physics World
Weyl points: the photonic crystal Evidence for the existence of particles called Weyl fermions in two very different solid materials has been found by three independent groups of ph...
Using low-dose irradiation, researchers can now edit human genes: Effectiveness of gene editing in human stem cells improves tenfold using new technique
This method, developed by researchers in the Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute, is 10 times more effective than techniques currently in use. This novel ...
Unlocking the rice immune system
Rice is a staple for half the world’s population and the model plant for grass-type biofuel feedstocks. The research team discovered that a tyrosine-sulfated bacterial protein called...
Study of human body fluid shifts aboard space station advances journey to Mars
Using an ultrasound, NASA’s Human Research Program is currently testing noninvasive techniques to evaluate and measure intracranial pressure as part of the One-Year Mission research....
Scientists identify schizophrenia’s ‘Rosetta Stone’ gene
The breakthrough has revealed a vulnerable period in the early stages of the brain’s development that researchers hope can be targeted for future efforts in reversing schizophrenia. ...
Rare form: Novel structures built from DNA emerge
F) fishnet pattern G) flower and bird design The completed nanostructures are seen in the accompanying atomic force microscopy images. In the current study, complex nano-forms displa...
Programming adult stem cells to treat muscular dystrophy and more by mimicking nature
Stem cells hold great potential for addressing a variety of conditions from spinal cord injuries to cancer, but they can be difficult to control. Scientists are now reporting in the ...
Kiwi bird genome sequenced
Researchers of the University of Leipzig and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have now sequenced the genetic code of this endangered specie...
Exploring the Higgs boson’s dark side
In 2012 CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) discovered the Higgs boson, the ‘missing piece’ in the jigsaw of particles predicted by the Standard Model. ‘We do not know what we will fi...
Astronauts’ skin changes before and after missions are studied
This May 2010 NASA handout image shows a NASA astronaut participating in the mission’s first session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction and maintenance continue on the ...
A dictionary of the language of cells
In their struggle to survive and prosper, multicellular organisms rely on a complex network of communication between cells, which in humans are believed to number about 40 trillion. ...
Weyl points, first predicted in 1929, observed for the first time
Part of a 1929 prediction by physicist Hermann Weyl – of a kind of massless particle that features a singular point in its energy spectrum called the Weyl point – has finally been co...
Vision-restoring gene therapy also strengthens visual processing pathways in brain: Surprisingly rapid regrowth of unused brain connections after decades of near blindness
Since 2007, clinical trials using gene therapy have resulted in often-dramatic sight restoration for dozens of children and adults who were otherwise doomed to blindness. The patient...