A team of researchers from the University of California, Davis and the University of Washington have demonstrated that the conductance of DNA can be modulated by controlling its stru...
CAMBRIDGE, MA – MIT biological engineers have developed a modular system of proteins that can detect a particular DNA sequence in a cell and then trigger a specific response, such as...
Jennifer Aniston, Clint Eastwood and Halle Berry images used in ‘mind game’ to establish for the first time how new memories are formed Observations based on human brain studies St...
To measure the mass of neutrinos, scientists study radioactive decays in which they are emitted. This decay energy must be known with highest precision. Neutrinos are everywhere. Wit...
A plant is probably never going to reach solar cell efficiencies, but solar cells are not going to make you lunch, Blankenship said. If plants had antenna complexes sized for the lig...
The OSIRIS-REx Visible and Infrared Spectrometer (OVIRS) instrument measures visible and near infrared light from the asteroid Bennu that can be used to identify water and organic ma...
A team including the scientist who first harnessed the revolutionary CRISPR-Cas9 system for mammalian genome editing has now identified a different CRISPR system with the potential f...
A mathematical problem underlying fundamental questions in particle and quantum physics is provably unsolvable, according to scientists at UCL, Universidad Complutense de Madrid - IC...
Within five years, they hope to produce a working prototype of an ‘accelerator-on-a-chip’. For decades, particle accelerators have been an indispensable tool in countless areas of re...
Intensive basic and preclinical research is clearly needed and should proceed, subject to appropriate legal and ethical rules and oversight, on (i) technologies for editing genetic s...
A group of researchers, lead by Vasily M. Studitsky, professor at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, discovered a new mechanism of DNA repair, which opens up new perspectives for...
The scientists used two sets of laser beams to entangle the two ions–establishing a special quantum link between their properties–and to perform two types of logic operations, a cont...
CRISPR/Cas9 is a relatively new genome engineering tool that can target a particular segment of DNA in living cells — such as a gene mutation — and replace it with a new genetic sequ...
Scientists have mapped out the genes that keep our cells alive, creating a long-awaited foothold for understanding how our genome works and which genes are crucial in disease like ca...
Can reveal gender, exposure to explosives, use of tobacco, medicines and illicit drugs ArroGen Group, an integrated advanced forensic solutions company, will unveil its new Fingerpr...
This move marks the start of the third and final cryogenic test at Goddard to prepare the Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM), or the heart of the telescope, for space. To cr...
New model described in the journal CHAOS represents how the mind processes sequential memory and may help understand psychiatric disorders WASHINGTON, D.C., October 20, 2015 – Try t...
My hope is that machine teaching has an impact on the educational world. It’s quite different from how people usually think about education, says Zhu. The machine learner (the comput...
Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have produced new maps of Jupiter – the first in a series of annual portraits of the solar system’s outer planets. Already, the Jupiter...
One significant challenge is determining the formation of complex neuronal structures made up of billions of cells in the human brain. Shroff and his team at NIBIB, in collaboration ...
Leveraging developments in automatic speech recognition, natural language processing and machine learning, researchers Bo Xiao (Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering at the...
The authors say their work demonstrates not only the basic operational paradigm of cognition, but shows that all cognitive behaviors exist on a hierarchy, starting with the most tang...
We’ve shown, for the first time, the dramatic enhancements of radiative heat fluxes in the extreme near-field, said Pramod Reddy, associate professor of mechanical engineering and ma...
And can such techniques be computationally replicated to improve computer vision, machine learning or robotic performance? Researchers at Georgia Tech discovered that humans can cate...
Researchers at Durham University and Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in Oxfordshire, have re-examined the economics of fusion, taking account of recent advances in superconductor tec...