Amazon rainforest responds quickly to extreme climate events
A new study examining carbon exchange in the Amazon rainforest following extremely hot and dry spells reveals tropical ecosystems might be more sensitive to climate change than previ...
60 mn people worldwide hit by El Nino: UN
Stephen O’Brien, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief, speaks during the meeting on the humanitarian situation in Syria January 27, 2016 at the UN in...
Sentinel-1B launched to complete radar pair
Applications Sentinel-1B launched to complete radar pair 25/04/2016 18096 views 103 likes The second Sentinel-1 satellite – Sentinel-1B – was launched today to provide more ‘radar v...
Scientists advance disease resistance in three of world’s most important crops
They report the isolation of novel disease resistance genes and the successful transfer of resistance into wheat, soybean, and potato. The 2Blades Foundation supported the developmen...
NJIT’s new solar telescope unveils the complex dynamics of sunspots’ dark cores
Groundbreaking images of the Sun captured by scientists at NJIT’s Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) give a first-ever detailed view of the interior structure of umbrae - the dark pat...
New gene-detecting technology brings new, resilient superwheat closer
Working with fellow scientists at TSL, Dr Brande Wulff from the JIC developed the new technology called ‘MutRenSeq’ which accurately pinpoints the location of disease resistance gene...
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Powers Planetary Exploration with Red Hat OpenStack Platform
JPL engineers built an on-site OpenStack cloud for the large and flexible cloud computing capacity they could offer mission scientists and engineers, planning to move critical comput...
Mercury’s MESSENGER mission comes to a crashing climax
The probe carries a number of science instruments to map the surface of the planet and its magnetic field, detect atmospheric gases and various elements of Mercury’s crust, and much ...
Magnetic vortices record history of Earth’s magnetic field – Physics World
(Courtesy: Imperial College London) The vortex-like structures in grains of magnetite can reliably preserve magnetic information, remaining unaltered by temperature changes, thereby...
Controlling RNA in living cells
CAMBRIDGE, MA – MIT researchers have devised a new set of proteins that can be customized to bind arbitrary RNA sequences, making it possible to image RNA inside living cells, monito...
CO2 fertilization greening the earth
BOSTON – An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries has just published a study titled Greening of the Earth and its Drivers in the journal Nature Cli...
Yale scientists use gene editing to correct mutation in cystic fibrosis
New Haven, Conn. – Yale researchers successfully corrected the most common mutation in the gene that causes cystic fibrosis, a lethal genetic disorder. The study was published April ...
Silicon Valley marks 50 years of Moore’s Law
In 1975, based on industry developments, he updated the prediction to doubling every two years. As you drive around Silicon Valley, 99 percent of the companies you see wouldn’t be he...
Over 80% of future deforestation confined to just 11 places
Up to 170 million hectares of forest could be lost between 2010 and 2030 in these deforestation fronts if current trends continue, according to findings in the latest chapter of WWF’...
New open-access journal on cannabis and cannabinoid research launching fall 2015
New Rochelle, NY, April 24, 2015 – Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, a new peer-reviewed, open access journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers (http://www.liebertpub.com/), i...
New material for creating artificial blood vessels
TU Wien and MedUni Vienna have developed artificial blood vessels, which are broken down by the body and replaced with its own tissue This news release is available in German. It is...
Neurons constantly rewrite their DNA
We used to think that once a cell reaches full maturation, its DNA is totally stable, including the molecular tags attached to it to control its genes and maintain the cell’s identit...
Image: Saturn’s sponge-like moon Hyperion
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute The subject of this image bears a remarkable resemblance to a porous sea sponge, floating in the inky black surroundings of the deep sea. In...
From sticks to stones—getting a grip on the human genus
Probably the first hominin to make stone tools, according to new research. Deconstructing the Homo package Ever since tool making was linked exclusively to Homo there have been diss...
Deep space atomic clock
Work is progressing on the Deep Space Atomic Clock, a miniaturized, ultra-precise mercury-ion atomic clock that is far more stable than today’s best navigation clocks. NASA is making...
Bats use both sides of brain to listen—just like humans
Researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center and American University have shown that, like humans, mustached bats use the left and right sides of their brains to process dif...
Woolly mammoth genomes offer insight into their history and extinction
Credit: Love Dalén Before the world’s last woolly mammoth took its final breath, the iconic animals had already suffered from a considerable loss of genetic diversity. One of those ...
What is the surface of Neptune like?
Credit: NASA/JPL As a gas giant (or ice giant), Neptune has no solid surface. Credit: NASA Also like Uranus, Neptune’s internal structure is differentiated between a rocky core con...
The masters of antimatter – Physics World
Fantastical and yet very real, the bizarre and exciting world of antimatter research is at a tipping point. Thanks to huge advances in the field over the past decade, scientists are ...
Study shows novel pattern of electrical charge movement through DNA
The property is known as charge transport. Oxidative damage is believed to play a role in the initiation and progression of cancer. The length of a DNA molecule and its sequence of 4...