A better grasp of primate grip
In a new study, a research team led by Yale University found that even the oldest known human ancestors may have had precision grip capabilities comparable to modern humans. This inc...
6 motivations for consuming or publishing open source software
This frees developers up to work on yet-unsolved challenges, the types of challenges that are unique to and add value to your organization’s mission. You’re going to be paying for bo...
UA researchers unlock the mysteries of wound healing
A multidisciplinary research team discovers how cells know to rush to a wound and heal it – opening the door to new treatments for diabetes, heart disease and cancer Researchers at ...
Study yields insights into how plant cells grow
Previous research had shown that two intracellular fiber systems control plant cell shape: the microtubule cytoskeleton and the actin cytoskeleton. A protein complex known as ARP2/3 ...
Study identifies first-ever human population adaptation to toxic chemical, arsenic
High up in the high Andes mountains of Argentina, researchers have identified the first-ever evidence of a population uniquely adapted to tolerate the toxic chemical arsenic. In a ne...
NOAA’s DSCOVR: Offering a new view of the solar wind
NOAA will use DSCOVR to monitor the solar wind and forecast space weather at Earth – effects from the material and energy from the sun that can impact our satellites and technologica...
New project to develop a drug to fight cognitive impairment associated with schizophrenia
The goal of «Spark» is to carry out the first preclinical stage of the development of a first-in-class drug that will prevent, stop and reverse the progression of cognitive impairmen...
NASA’s Hubble observations suggest underground ocean on Jupiter’s largest moon
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has the best evidence yet for an underground saltwater ocean on Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon. Ganymede is the largest moon in our solar system and t...
Improving genome editing with drugs
However, although this method has incredible potential, the process is extremely inefficient. Currently, there is a trade-off with CRISPR: the technology is very precise, but it is a...
DARPA taps lab to help restore sense of touch to amputees
LIVERMORE, Calif. - The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently selected Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to join a collaborative research team that i...
Bioelectricity plays key role in brain development and repair
More than on/off switch, electric signals tell cells where and how to grow MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (March 11, 2015) – Research reported today by Tufts University biologists shows ...
An evolutionary approach reveals new clues toward understanding the roots of schizophrenia
In a new study appearing in Molecular Biology and Evolution, Mount Sinai researcher Joel Dudley has led a new study that suggests that the very changes specific to human evolution ma...
How does a machine smell? Better than it did
The human nose can distinguish between some of these molecules and the different forms of the same molecule of carvone, for example, can smell either like spearmint or caraway. A col...
Solar energy prices see double-digit declines in 2013; Trend expected to continue
Distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) system prices dropped by 12 - 19 percent nationwide in 2013, according to the third edition of a jointly written report on PV pricing trends from ...
Precise and programmable biological circuits
The researchers recently published their work in the scientific journal Nature Chemical Biology. In the controllable biosensor developed by Lapique, the gene responsible for the outp...
Link seen between seizures and migraines in the brain
Seizures and migraines have always been considered separate physiological events in the brain, but now a team of engineers and neuroscientists looking at the brain from a physics vie...
Goodbye to rainy days for US, Japan’s first rain radar in space
As a result, NASA ceased station-keeping maneuvers that would keep the satellite at its operating altitude of 402 km (249.8 miles). Data from TRMM will continue to foster science wel...
Free HTTPS certs for all – Let’s Encrypt opens doors to world+dog
How-to The Let’s Encrypt project has opened to the public, allowing anyone to obtain free TLS certificates and set up HTTPS websites in a few simple steps. The public beta went live ...
RCas9: A programmable RNA editing tool
A powerful scientific tool for editing the DNA instructions in a genome can now also be applied to RNA, the molecule that translates DNA’s genetic instructions into the production of...
Why bioethics literacy matters
The Hastings Center and the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues collaborate to publish a collection of papers on bioethics education, citing high stakes of suc...
To infinity and beyond: Light goes infinitely fast with new on-chip material
When light passes through water, for example, its phase velocity is reduced as its wavelengths get squished together. In a zero-index material, there is no phase advance, meaning lig...
Researchers use NASA and other data to look into the heart of a solar storm
A space weather storm from the sun engulfed our planet on Jan. 21, 2005. With observations collected from ground-based networks and 20 different satellites, Kozyra and a group of col...
New study reveals what’s behind a tarantula’s blue hue
Researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and University of Akron found that many species of tarantulas have independently evolved the ability to grow blue...
Hubble helps find smallest known galaxy containing a supermassive black hole
The black hole is five times the mass of the one at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Seth’s team of astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini North 8-meter optica...
How the woodpecker avoids brain injury despite high-speed impacts via optimal anti-shock body structure
Their findings, presented in a new study titled Energy conversion in the woodpecker on successive pecking and its role in anti-shock protection of the brain and published in the Beij...