Carrots are the richest crop source of vitamin A in the American diet. The accumulation of orange pigments is an accumulation that normally wouldn’t happen, says Simon, one of just a...
In most African countries, however, GM crops remain a farfetched idea. But a different technique known as gene editing modifies plant, as well as animal and human, genomes without th...
Scientists at Newcastle University have documented for the first time the DNA damage which can occur to skin across the full range of ultraviolet radiation from the sun providing an ...
Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The intensity anisotropy largely shaped our current `standard model’ of cosmology, and constrained the six numbers that parameterize ...
WASHINGTON, June 22 – There’s nothing like the smell of salty sea air over summer vacation. Kimberly Prather, Ph.D., and her team have discovered in research published in ACS Central...
Although geologically relatively recent in the 4.5 billion year history of Venus, these terrains could be many hundreds of million years old and no longer active. New images and meas...
Chemists and biologists at UC San Diego have succeeded in designing and synthesizing an artificial cell membrane capable of sustaining continual growth, just like a living cell. Thei...
New research conducted by a team at King’s College London has found an increasing trend in the number of people in the UK reaching age 100 over the past two decades. The study also f...
Seen shortly after local sunrise, clouds gather in the summit pit, or caldera, of Pavonis Mons, a giant volcano on Mars. These observations have allowed scientists to map the propert...
To explore the properties of this plasma of quarks and gluons as it expands and cools, a new Di-Jet Calorimeter (DCal) was installed in the ALICE detector to provide unique insights ...
While its exact function is yet to be determined, 5fC’s physical position in the genome makes it likely that it plays a key role in gene activity. Since the structure of DNA was disc...
People who are high on affective empathy are often those who get quite fearful when watching a scary movie, or start crying during a sad scene. Those who have high cognitive empathy ...
A layer beneath the Sun’s surface, acting as a pan of boiling water, is thought to generate a small-scale magnetic field as an energy reserve which, once it emerges from the star, he...
Now, National Science Foundation-funded research conducted by Florida International University Professor Zahra Hazari shows that’s not really the case. Their research, published rece...
Credit: NASA/JPL Halley’s Comet, also known as 1P/Halley, is the most well known comet in the Solar System. Using these calculations and recorded observations made of comets, he was...
Meanwhile, solar-thermal power (another form of solar power) relies on mirrors or lenses to concentrate a large area of sunlight, or solar thermal energy (STE), onto a small area (i....
Chimpanzees and bonobos are the two closest living relatives of the human species – the ultimate tool-using ape. From nut trees to ant nests, stones to shrubs, the bonobos had access...
The team believes it is likely that the dominance of the Beijing family strain (it is currently responsible for approximately a quarter of all infections worldwide) came about due to...
Credit: Sean O’Donnell The society you live in can shape the complexity of your brain—and it does so differently for social insects than for humans and other vertebrate animals. Ess...
Human stem cells can be differentiated to produce other cell types, such as organ cells, skin cells, or brain cells. While organ cells, for example, can function in isolation, brain ...
Inside the head of the worm C. elegans, the TV antenna-like structure at the tip of the AFD neuron (green) is the first identified sensor for Earth’s magnetic field. A team of scient...
A particle that left CERN as a muon neutrino underwent oscillation during its 730-kilometre journey to Gran Sasso, arriving as a tau neutrino. Researchers at Gran Sasso announced the...
The Mir space station in orbit, photographed by Atlantis STS-71 in 1995. Credit: NASA The Mir Space Station was Russia’s greatest space station, and the first modular space station ...
The Aquarius mission studied the interactions between changes in the ocean circulation, global water cycle and climate by measuring ocean surface salinity. Credit: NASA An internati...
Swathes of iridescent blue, sandy-coloured plains and delicate strands of greyish white, create an ethereal and colourful view of our Solar System’s innermost planet. These regions t...