Life science researchers at Virginia Tech have accelerated a game-changing technology that’s being used to study one of the planet’s most lethal disease-carrying animals. Editing the...
Electricity gained from solar panels in space could one day be beamed to earth Japanese scientists have succeeded in transmitting energy wirelessly, in a key step that could one day...
The researchers from Oxford University, working with a team from Sri Lanka and the University of Bradford, analysed the carbon and oxygen isotopes in the teeth of 26 individuals, wit...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observed aurorae on the moon generated by Ganymede’s magnetic fields. Credit: NASA/ESA NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has the best evidence yet for an u...
The new technique should enable greater advances in research and could offer industry a way to automate the design and manufacture of synthetic DNA. BASIC is fast to use because it c...
A May 31, 2007 file photo shows a view of the LHC (large hadron collider) in its tunnel at CERN (European particle physics laboratory) near Geneva, Switzerland. It was a good test, h...
The study authors noted a high failure rate associated with the use of nonhuman animal models to predict human reactions to new drugs. Shown is human heart tissue, derived from adult...
A decade later, we are only now starting to understand how the atmosphere of Titan formed, mostly based on what Huygens observed. Seeking noble gases The Huygens probe found an isot...
According to the head of the Synbreed project, Prof. Chris-Carolin Schön, optimizing breeding methods will be an important technology for the future. The methods used are based on DN...
Much of Earth’s biodiversity is concentrated in areas where not enough is known about species habitats and their wider distributions, making management and conservation a challenge. ...
Research on the expression of viral DNA within the human genome furthers our understanding of human evolution and embryonic development Singapore – The human genome is the blueprint...
Credit: Wikipedia (Phys.org) —A team of researchers working at Northwest A&F University in China has found that introducing a particular mouse gene into cattle can give them bet...
First, they used seedlings from the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and tested 10,000 synthetic compounds to determine if any could reverse the harmful effects of cesium. The effect...
An article in the latest edition of the journal Science describes an innovative form of heat engine that operates using only one single atom. Heat engines have played an important ro...
We have demonstrated for the first time that we can make uracil, cytosine, and thymine, all three components of RNA and DNA, non-biologically in a laboratory under conditions found i...
Credit: Shutterstock Materials can be divided into two categories based on their ability to conduct electricity. Paired electrons on the other hand are given a priority pass to trav...
The researchers dated the recently discovered Ledi-Geraru fossil mandible, known by its catalog number LD 350-1, by dating various layers of volcanic ash or tuff using argon40 argon3...
Leidenfrost Engine Martian colonists could use an innovative new technique to harvest energy from carbon dioxide thanks to research pioneered at Northumbria University, Newcastle. N...
A new approach developed by Harvard geneticist George Church, Ph.D., can help uncover how tandem gene circuits dictate life processes, such as the healthy development of tissue or th...
Converging evidence from many previous studies has implicated a population of neurons in the brain’s prefrontal cortex called fast-spiking (FS) interneurons in schizophrenia, but a c...
Two different forms of calcium carbonate have identical chemical composition, but look different and have different properties such as solubility. Calcium carbonate can take the form...
View of an Amazon rainforest Scientists from the universities of Granada and Warwick have published an article in the journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences),...
Kilauea is the most active of the five volcanoes that make up the island of Hawaii. The volcano has been erupting for 31 years, so obviously there’s a lot of magma coming from below,...
The researchers have captured, for the first time ever, a single snapshot of light behaving simultaneously as both a wave and a stream of particles particle. The experiment is set up...
In addition to dorsal and ventral electrosensory pores, wobbegong and angel sharks posses a rare hyoid cluster that the scientists believe assists in predator detection. We found tha...