Earth’s magnetic heartbeat
Applications Earth’s magnetic heartbeat 10/05/2016 48370 views 306 likes With more than two years of measurements by ESA’s Swarm satellite trio, changes in the strength of Earth’s m...
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is once again smashing protons, taking data
SMU physicists work on the LHC’s ATLAS experiment. As part of Run 2, physicists on the Large Hadron Collider’s experiments are analyzing new proton collision data to unravel the stru...
Antarctic Peninsula ice flow
Successive radar images captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1A satellite during December 2014 – March 2016 were used to create this spectacular map showing how fast the ice flows on ...
World record: Most powerful high-energy particle beam for a neutrino experiment ever generated
Fermilab’s Main Injector accelerator, one of the most powerful particle accelerators in the world, has just achieved a world record for high-energy beams for neutrino experiments. Th...
Why parrots are great vocal imitators: Regions of bird’s brain likely duplicated at least 29 million years ago
An international team of scientists led by Duke University researchers has uncovered key structural differences in the brains of parrots that may explain the birds’ unparalleled abil...
Why don’t men live as long as women?
In the wake of this massive but uneven decrease in mortality, a review of global data points to heart disease as the culprit behind most of the excess deaths documented in adult men,...
Why do strawberries taste so good?
Some 500 years ago, the wood strawberry, Fragaria vesca, was around in Europe and the musk strawberry, Fragaria moschata, was starting to be cultivated. The balance of sweetness and ...
What’s the impact of marijuana on driving?
A new study conducted at the University of Iowa’s National Advanced Driving Simulator has found drivers who use alcohol and marijuana together weave more on a virtual roadway than dr...
Uranus’ moon Titania
In fact, astronomers can now account for 27 moons in orbit around Uranus. Discovery and Naming: Titania was discovered by William Herschel on January 11th, 1787, the English astrono...
Tracking the genetic arms race between humans and mosquitoes
Scientists studying mosquitoes in various types of environments in the United States and in Russia found that between 5 and 20 percent of a mosquito population’s genome is subject to...
Successful heart transplant after using experimental artificial heart
A petite 44-year-old woman has received a successful heart transplant at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, thanks to an experimental Total Artificial Heart designed for smaller pati...
Single gene controls fish brain size and intelligence
A single gene called Angiopoietin-1 (Ang-1) drives brain size and intelligence in fish according to a new study by researchers at UCL, Stockholm University and University of Helsinki...
Researchers uncover epigenetic switches that turn stem cells into blood vessel cells
Changes to the proteins around which DNA is wound, called histones, can up-regulate the expression of genes by exposing them to the cellular machinery that translates their DNA. The ...
Researchers align atomic friction experiment
Working together to study friction on the atomic scale, researchers at UC Merced and the University of Pennsylvania have conducted the first atomic-scale experiments and simulations ...
Quantum swing—a pendulum that moves forward and backwards at the same time
A detailed theoretical analysis shows that multiple nonlinear interactions of all three THz pulses with the InSb crystal generate strong two-phonon excitations. The two parabolas (bl...
People and primates share chewing adaptations
Chewing food not a primary mechanism of species differentiation Scientists have gained insights into how primate species have evolved through space and time by studying the anatomy ...
NASA image: Flying over an aurora
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Large hadron collider prepares to deliver six times the data
The LHC will run around the clock for the next six months and produce roughly 2 quadrillion high-quality proton collisions, six times more than in 2015 and just shy of the total numb...
How will people interact with technology in the future?
A team of researchers led by Professor Mike Fraser and Dr Anne Roudaut from Bristol University’s Bristol Interaction Group (BIG) group, will present six papers at the international c...
How to banish children’s fussy eating: Three steps
Introducing the ‘three Rs’ – Repetition, Role Modelling and Rewards – at meal times could help parents to get their children to eat, and even like, new vegetables, according to new r...
How our sense of smell evolved, including in early humans
Most receptors can detect more than one smell, but one, called OR7D4, enables us to detect a very specific smell called androstenone, which is produced by pigs and is found in boar m...
Gene editing can now change an entire species – forever
CRISPR gene drives allow scientists to change sequences of DNA and guarantee that the resulting edited genetic trait is inherited by future generations, opening up the possibility of...
Extreme makeover: Humankind’s unprecedented transformation of Earth
Professor Jan Zalasiewicz from the University of Leicester’s Department of Geology who was involved in the study explained the research: We are used to seeing headlines daily about e...
Exercising early in life yields rewards in adult years: Early-age exercise in mice has positive effects on adult levels of voluntary exercise
They found that early-age exercise in mice has positive effects on adult levels of voluntary exercise in addition to reducing body mass – results that may have relevance for the publ...
Cataract culprits: Genes linked to cataract formation identified
advertisement Lachke and graduate students Smriti Agrawal, Archana Siddam and post-doctoral fellow Deepti Anand study lens development in mice to better understand the genetic mecha...