(CC BY-SA Peripitus) Long-lived spin coherence in proteins found in the eyes of migratory birds could explain how the creatures are able to navigate along the Earth’s magnetic field...
When the brain is constantly exercised in this way, it doesn’t have to work as hard to perform cognitive tasks, the researchers found. When you have to do that all the time, you get ...
Comparisons between atomic clocks with caesium and ytterbium, respectively, confirm the constancy of the mass ratio of protons to electrons. Are the fundamental constants really cons...
Water availability in the Northern Hemisphere has seen much larger changes during the past twelve centuries than during twentieth century global warming, a new study in Nature report...
The molecule that holds the codes of life is capable of further winding itself into myriad complex shapes called ‘supercoils’ that are capable of affecting gene expression patterns. ...
Linus Torvalds transformed technology twice – first with the Linux kernel, which helps power the Internet, and again with Git, the source code management system used by developers wo...
New research led by Professor Cathie Martin of the John Innes Centre has revealed how a plant used in traditional Chinese medicine produces compounds which may help to treat cancer a...
The finding may eventually lead to smaller, more powerful and more advanced electronic devices, according to the study’s lead author, Bingqian Xu. For 50 years, we have been able to ...
ESA astronaut Tim Peake shares his views of Earth and his six-month Principia mission while on the International Space Station. Narrated by Tim himself taken from interviews while in...
This Kitaev quantum spin liquid supports magnetic excitations equivalent to Majorana fermions–particles that are unusual in that they are their own antiparticles. Arnab Banerjee, the...
Not so with open-source products. A few days ago, scientists at ETH Zurich and the University of Bologna, led by ETH Professor Luca Benini, open sourced the full design of one of the...
These new technologies, being presented today at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) annual conference in New York City, are mapping new understandings of cognition and advancin...
“MRI is helping us to understand the underlying biology of the condition,” Williams says. “If we can diagnose earlier and determine the differences in brain biology, then we can begi...
Researchers who used CRISPR/Cas9 to mutate HIV-1 within cellular DNA found that while single mutations can inhibit viral replication, some also led to unexpected resistance. From her...
The device, developed out of collaboration between ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES) researchers and orthopaedic surgeons at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbour...
Using reprogrammed iPS cells, scientists from the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) in Japan have, along with collaborators from Tokyo University of Science and other Japa...
Our graphene based microchip is an essential building block for faster wireless telecommunications in frequency bands that current mobile devices cannot access, says EPFL scientist M...
The genetically modified T-cells are injected back into the patient, where their new gene enables them to seek out and destroy the cancer cells. The quicker the T-cells can be modifi...
In a new evolutionary proof of the old adage, ‘we are what we eat’, Cornell University scientists have found tantalizing evidence that a vegetarian diet has led to a mutation that – ...
Yet the collective behavior of water molecules is unique and continues to amaze us. Deciphering the interactions among water, salt and ions is thus fundamentally important for unders...
Using this language, anyone can write a program for the function they want, such as detecting and responding to certain environmental conditions. It is literally a programming langua...
I want you to reimagine how life is organized on earth, says global strategist Parag Khanna. As our expanding cities grow ever more connected through transportation, energy and commu...
In a new study published in the early online edition of Molecular Biology and Evolution, scientists Romina Beleggia, Roberto Papa et al., examined the rich evolutionary history of pa...
In the same year as Blondin’s first Niagara crossing, Charles Darwin published On The Origin of Species by Natural Selection. The difference illustrates how individuals have remarkab...
Art Sedlacek, an atmospheric scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, has gone to extreme lengths to study aerosols – tiny particles emitted from ...