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Flexing new muscles on the International Space Station
Lenore Rasmussen, Ph.D., principal investigator of the Synthetic Muscle investigation, checks the pressure during the oxygen plasma treatment of titanium metal support mounts at the ...
CRISPR-edited mushroom cleared
A species of genetically engineered mushroom has been freed of regulation by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The browning of the mushroom is caused by the enzyme polypheno...
Columbia Engineering-led team advances single molecule electronic DNA sequencing
Previously, researchers from the laboratories of Ju at Columbia and Kasianowicz at NIST reported the general principle of nanopore sequencing by synthesis (SBS), the feasibility of d...
Brain area that recognises facial expressions found
Researchers, including Ramprakash Srinivasan from Ohio State University placed 10 college students into an fMRI machine and showed them more than 1,000 photographs of people making f...
We can reprogram life. How to do it wisely
For four billion years, what lived and died on Earth depended on two principles: natural selection and random mutation. Then humans came along and changed everything — hybridizing pl...
SESAME passes an important milestone at CERN
An engineer tests the installation of a vacuum chamber for SESAME, at CERN’s magnet-testing facility SM18. Credit: Maximilien Brice/CERN The SESAME project has reached an important ...
Nietzsche on Dreams as an Evolutionary Time Machine for the Human Brain
“We feel dreamed by someone else, a sleeping counterpart,” the poet Mark Strand wrote in his beautiful ode to dreams. “The dead still live: for they appear to the living in dreams.” ...
NASA missions measure solar flare from space
Solar flares are intense bursts of light from the Sun, created when complicated magnetic fields suddenly rearrange themselve Solar flares are intense bursts of light from the Sun, c...
International Space Station panoramic tour
Node-3 Tranquillity provides life-support for the International Space Station. Previous releases: Explore Zvezda module via Flickr, Facebook or Youtube. Explore Unity module via Fli...
How the brain balances risk-taking and learning
Now, Salk scientists have discovered the basis for how animals balance learning and risk-taking behavior to get to a more predictable environment. The research reveals new details on...
Asteroid Juno seen traveling through space in new ALMA images and animation
Images were taken when Juno was approximately 295 million kilometers from Earth. Credit: ALMA (NRAO/ESO/NAOJ) A series of images made with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter...
Are current dietary guidelines for sodium and potassium reasonable?
Yet to get to 3510 mg a day you would have to eat about six potatoes day. They found that at best, only 0.3% of Americans, or about three in a thousand achieve the WHO dietary goals....
US scientists celebrate the restart of the Large Hadron Collider
A highlight of the LHC’s first run, which began in 2009, was the discovery of the Higgs boson, the last in the suite of elementary particles that make up scientists’ best picture of ...
Study resolves reptilian family tree
Credit: Wikimedia Commons A new study has helped settle the controversial relationships among the major groups of lizards and snakes, and it sheds light on the origins of a group of...
Pulling the strings of our genetic puppetmasters: Engineers gain control of gene activity
The researchers say having the ability to steer the epigenome will help them explore the roles that particular promoters and enhancers play in cell fate or the risk for genetic disea...
Plants use sixth sense for growth aboard the space station
Researchers with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will conduct a second run of the Plant Gravity Sensing study after new supplies are delivered by the sixth SpaceX commercial r...
Exploring the human side of climate change adaptation
Lemos’ research is geared toward developing a conceptual model of adaptive capacity that could help civic leaders in communities in Brazil, the United States, or other areas, make st...
Darwin’s finches highlight the unity of all life
Presumably, it was his doubt about the available evidence that resulted in Darwin making no mention of Galapagos finches in any edition of Origin of Species. Why, then, do people now...
Altamura Man yields oldest Neanderthal DNA sample
Altamura Man, surrounded by limestone deposits. Credit: Wikipedia (Phys.org)—A team of researchers working in Italy has confirmed that Altamura Man was a Neanderthal and dating of p...
What drives the solar cycle?
This cycle is actually is 22 years in length (that’s 11 years times two), as the sun flips polarity each time. We’re currently in the midst of solar cycle #24, and the measurement of...
Some mushrooms glow, and here’s why
Only 71 of more than 100,000 described fungal species produce green light in a biochemical process that requires oxygen and energy. Researchers had believed in most cases that fungi ...
Scientists call for caution in using DNA-editing technology
The bacterial enzyme Cas9 is the engine of RNA-programmed genome engineering in human cells. Credit: Jennifer Doudna/UC Berkeley A group of 18 scientists and ethicists today warned ...
Russia announces plan to build new space station with NASA
NASA astronauts at the International Space Station (ISS) Russia on Saturday announced initial plans to build a new orbital space station together with NASA to replace the Internatio...
Researchers take another step in bringing back a wooly mammoth
Model at the Royal BC Museum. Credit: Wikipedia (Phys.org)—A team of researchers working at Harvard University has taken yet another step towards bringing to life a reasonable facsi...