Scientists watch living taste cells in action
Scientists have for the first time captured live images of the process of taste sensation on the tongue. We’ve watched live taste cells capture and process molecules with different t...
Researchers discover gene that controls melting point of cocoa butter
Blossoms on a chocolate (or cacao) tree. Research by Penn State scientists has identified a gene that determines the melting point of cocoa butter, which could lead to new varieties ...
Proteins for anxiety in humans and moulting in insects have common origin
Sea urchin. Credit: MR Elphick/QMUL Neuropeptides are small proteins in the brains of all animals that bind to receptor proteins and cause activity in cells. The last common ancesto...
PHOTOS: Hubble’s turn to smile, marks 25 years in orbit
(NASA, ESA, Allison Loll/Jeff Hester - Arizona State University via AP) This image made by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the Orion Nebula and the proceess of star format...
New insight into how brain makes memories
Every time you make a memory, somewhere in your brain a tiny filament reaches out from one neuron and forms an electrochemical connection to a neighboring neuron. A team of biologist...
Most comprehensive study to date reveals evolutionary history of citrus
Citrus fruits – delectable oranges, lemons, limes, kumquats and grapefruits – are among the most important commercially cultivated fruit trees in the world, yet little is known of th...
Millions of liters of juice from 1 grapefruit
The Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (acib) uses the positive aspects of synthetic biology for the ecofriendly production of a natural compound. The substance is expensive...
Mercury MESSENGER nears epic mission end
As an engineer at U-M’s Space Physics Research Lab, Raines helped design FIPS. The gases that make up Mercury’s outer atmosphere are mostly charged because of how the sun influences ...
Important study of how climate affects biodiversity
Now researchers from Uppsala University can, for the first time, give us a detailed picture of natural variation through a major study published today in the leading scientific journ...
ICARUS neutrino experiment to move to Fermilab
The 760-ton, 20-metre-long detector took data for the ICARUS experiment at the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (link is external)’ (INFN) Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Ital...
Hubble, the telescope that revolutionized our view of space
Launched on April 24, 1990 aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, Hubble orbits the Earth. The telescope launched aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1990 and is named after US astron...
Hubble’s deep field images of the early universe are postcards from billions of years ago
The Hubble Space Telescope began observing deep fields in 1995. Careful planning was required for the deep field images. Credit: Digitised Sky Survey (DSS), STScI/AURA, Palomar/Calte...
How do bone cells grow in space?
A Falcon9 launch: Credit: SpaceX Alvetex Scaffold technology, produced by Durham University spin-out company Reinnervate, allows cells to be grown in three dimensions (3D), overcomi...
Herschel’s Galactic panorama
Science & Exploration Herschel’s Galactic panorama 22/04/2016 16011 views 181 likes This new video from ESA’s Herschel space observatory reveals in stunning detail the intricate...
Genetic road map may bring about better cotton crops
A University of Texas at Austin scientist, working with an international research team, has developed the most precise sequence map yet of U.S. cotton and will soon create an even mo...
Decoding the cell’s genetic filing system
Published on April 6 in the journal Nature Chemistry, this work is the latest chemical contribution from the Muir lab towards understanding nature’s remarkable information indexing s...
Dating the moon-forming impact event with meteorites
Credit: Vishnu Reddy, Planetary Science Institute Through a combination of data analysis and numerical modeling work, researchers have found a record of the ancient Moon-forming gia...
Chinese team performs gene editing on human embryo
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers in China has announced that they have performed gene editing on human embryos. The researchers report that their desire was to see how well CRISPR wo...
Age-related changes in the brain can have significant impact on individuals, society
As they get older, individuals of all ages should take the following three steps to help promote cognitive health: Be physically active. To provide necessary assistance and support ...
About time: New record for atomic clock accuracy
JILA’s strontium lattice atomic clock now performs betterthan ever because scientists literally take thetemperature of the atoms’ environment. As described in Nature Communications, ...
30 years and counting, the X-ray laser lives on
Researchers used two beams on Nova for X-ray laser experiments. X-ray lasers have evolved quite a bit since this circa 1985 image. I was working with them (Chapline and Wood) a bit b...
Why we have chins: Researchers contend chin comes from evolution, not mechanical forces
The reason: Only modern humans have chins. Rather, they write in a paper published online in the Journal of Anatomy, it appears the chin’s emergence in modern humans arose from simpl...
Whole-genome sequencing of endangered mountain gorillas
Three years on from sequencing the gorilla reference genome, we can now compare the genomes of all gorilla populations, including the critically endangered mountain gorilla, and begi...
The atom without properties
Experimental test of Bell correlations With the (false) assumption that atoms possess their properties independently of measurements and independently of each other, a so-called Bel...
Scientists uncover gene ‘architects’ responsible for body’s blueprint
Associate Professor Anne Voss (right) and Associate Professor Tim Thomas led the research team from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, Australia.Previous work by the r...