Dresden and Leipzig researchers find that stem cells in the developing brain of modern humans take longer to divide and make fewer errors when distributing their chromosomes to their daughter cells, … [+4254 chars]
This guest post was written by Neha Krishnakumar, an undergraduate at the University of California, Los Angeles. Neha is currently a first-year philosophy and communications major, taking a course on… [+4751 chars]
As seen with the COVID-19 pandemic, detection methods that are rapid, simple, accurate, and sensitive are vital for detecting viral pathogens and for controlling the spread of infectious diseases. Un… [+3985 chars]
Helium ion beam (HIB) technology plays an important role in the extreme fields of nanofabrication. Due to high resolution and sensitivity, HIB nanofabrication technology is widely used to pattern nan… [+7578 chars]
Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti participates in the Acoustic Diagnostics study (July 8, 2022) Call for articles to cite in the weekly lists: Authors at NASA Centers and NASA PIsdo you have an arti… [+20045 chars]
ByKyushu UniversityJuly 29, 2022 More than a million individuals in Japan are believed to suffer from hikikomori, and research over the last ten years has suggested that the disease is spreading int… [+2953 chars]
On December 25th, 2021, after many years of waiting, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) finally launched to space. In the sixth-month period that followed, this next-generation observatory unfurle… [+8156 chars]
Chimpanzees produce a hunting bark to call members of their group and co-ordinate a hunt, new research suggests. Similar to humans, the animals use communication to coordinate their cooperative beha… [+2618 chars]
Quick switch. When “pumped” with an ultraviolet laser pulse, the microwire (light gray strip) acts as a microcavity containing quasiparticles called exciton polaritons that form a Bose-Einstein conde… [+6354 chars]
Lunar scientists think they've found the hottest places on the Moon, as well as some 200 Goldilocks zones that are always near the average temperature in San Francisco. The moon has wild temperatur… [+4150 chars]
A trio of researchers from James Cook University, working with a colleague from the University of Adelaide, has found metamorphic diamonds in rocks near Australia's northeast coast. In their paper pu… [+2665 chars]
<ul><li>Debris from a Chinese space rocket will fall back to Earth sometime this weekend, at an unknown location.</li><li>The massive Chinese rocket booster is traveling at 27,000 kilometres per hour… [+4929 chars]