Human cell death captured for first time
An example of a white blood cell experiencing apoptotic long-beaded apoptopodia. The team’s work, published in the journal Nature Communications, has determined it is in fact highly ...
How the brain learns to distinguish between what is important and what is not
The brain learns to discriminate between images To do this, Prof. Hofer’s team investigated the visual cortex of mice. This part of the brain is responsible for the processing and p...
How DNA protects itself from UV light
The experimental findings give new insight on how the nucleobases inside DNA protect themselves from damage induced by ultraviolet light. In addition, the experimental scheme develop...
‘Hello Earth!’: Comet probe Philae wakes up
The lander is ready for operations. Stephan Ulamec, Philae project manager of German Aerospace Centre, says the lander is doing very well A tweet in the name of Rosetta announced: I...
Global freshwater consumption crossing its planetary boundary
These activities have led to an increased loss of freshwater to the atmosphere due to human-driven increase of evapotranspiration, which includes evaporation from surface and soil wa...
Earth’s core contains 90 percent of Earth’s sulfur, new research shows
New research confirms that the Earth’s core does in fact contain vast amounts of sulphur, estimated to be up to 8.5 x 1018 tonnes. This is the first time that scientists have conclus...
ALMA weighs supermassive black hole at center of distant spiral galaxy
In comparison, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way is a lightweight, with a mass of just a few million times that of our Sun. A similar technique was used previously with t...
A timeline of comet probe’s 11-year journey
The European Space Agency said Sunday that its comet lander Philae has woken up from hibernation and managed to send data back to Earth for the first time in seven months. Feb. 25, 2...
A third of the world’s biggest groundwater basins are in distress
The findings appear today in Water Resources Research. The studies are the first to characterize groundwater losses via data from space, using readings generated by NASA’s twin GRACE...
Ultra-tough fiber imitates structure of spider silk
The mechanical origin of its strength drew the interest of researchers at the Laboratory for Multiscale Mechanics in Polytechnique Montreal’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Ea...
Thirty years of AIDS data highlight survival gains, room for improvement
For the study, researchers analyzed HIV surveillance data collected continuously over the past 30-plus years by the San Francisco Department of Public Health on initial and subsequen...
The moons of Jupiter
First, there are the largest moons known as the Galileans, or Main Group. They contain almost 99.999% of the total mass in orbit around Jupiter, and orbit between 400,000 and 2,000,0...
The difference between asteroids and meteorites
In simplest terms here are the definitions: Asteroid: a large rocky body in space, in orbit around the Sun. Meteorite: If a small asteroid or large meteoroid survives its fiery pass...
Scientists produce strongest evidence yet of schizophrenia’s causes
An international team of scientists led by Cardiff University researchers has provided the strongest evidence yet of what causes schizophrenia – a condition that affects around 1% of...
Scientists gain first glimpse of new concepts developing in the brain
‘Millions of people read the information about the olinguito and in doing so permanently changed their own brains,’ said Just, the D.O. Just added, ‘The new knowledge gained from the...
Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder may share genetic roots with creativity
Genes linked to creativity could increase the risk of developing schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, according to new research carried out by researchers at the Institute of Psychiat...
Researchers use stars to infer mass of Milky Way
With any ordinary scale every patient can do better at home. The Milky Way consists of roughly 100 billion stars that form a huge stellar disk with a diameter of 100-200 thousand lig...
Researchers find speedometer in the brain
Not just on our way to the coffee machine, but any time we move in space. Rhythmic fluctuations It has been known for some time that the hippocampus – the part of the brain that con...
Researchers edit plant DNA using mechanism evolved in bacteria
Credit: University of Georgia Researchers at the University of Georgia have used a gene editing tool known as CRISPR/Cas to modify the genome of a tree species for the first time. T...
Researchers discover new fundamental property of rocks
The pore network The discovery of a new fundamental rock property will improve estimates of underground resources, such as hydrocarbons and drinking water, as well as CO₂ storage re...
Paleo study shows how elevation may affect evolution
The rising mountains dried out the interior, preparing mammals for a major climate change event 34 million years ago, researchers say. A new study explains why: The rise of the Rocky...
Over 95% of the world’s population has health problems, with over a third having more than five ailments
Just one in 20 people worldwide (4·3%) had no health problems in 2013, with a third of the world’s population (2·3 billion individuals) experiencing more than five ailments, accordin...
Most detailed view ever of star formation in the distant universe
ALMA’s Long Baseline Campaign has produced a spectacularly detailed image of a distant galaxy being gravitationally lensed, revealing star-forming regions - something that has never ...
Image: The effect of the winds of Mars
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin Here on Earth, we are used to the wind shaping our environment over time, forming smooth, sculpted rocks and rippling dunes. On the Red Planet, strong wind...
How to convert US to 100 percent renewable energy
For each sector, they then analyzed the current amount and source of the fuel consumed – coal, oil, gas, nuclear, renewables – and calculated the fuel demands if all fuel usage were ...