NASA’s Maven observes martian night sky pulsing in ultraviolet light
Credit: Credits: NASA/MAVEN/Goddard Space Flight Center/CU/LASP Vast areas of the Martian night sky pulse in ultraviolet light, according to images ...
Arecibo Observatory returns from tropical storm Isaias lockdown to track asteroid for NASA
The National Science Foundation facility, managed by the University of Central Florida, determines that a newly discovered asteroid won't threaten ...
Is the gut biome a heritable trait?
UTIA animal scientists study the question and implications among cattleCredit: Photo by T. Salvador, courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- While ...
Asian giant hornet complete genome released by the agricultural research service
Credit: Photo by Matthew L Buffington, ARS. BELTSVILLE, MARYLAND, AUGUST 6, 2020--The first complete genome of the Asian giant hornet ...
Placebos prove powerful even when people know they’re taking one
Credit: Pexels: Pixabay CC0 EAST LANSING, Mich. - How much of a treatment is mind over matter? It is well ...
Chemists build natural anti-cancer compound with lean new process
Scripps Research collaborators develop a way to seamlessly create the compound's complex structureCredit: Scripps Research JUPITER, FL--Scripps Research chemists Hans ...
NASA satellites capture Isaias’ nighttime track into Canada
Credit: Courtesy: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). Tropical Storm Isaias has transitioned into a post-tropical ...
Embryonic heart development: Unprecedented insight from 4D OCT
Innovative method offers a new way of studying developmental cardiac biomechanics, live in 4DCredit: Wang and Larina. How a valveless ...
Personality-based approach may be key to partnering with robots
Credit: U.S. Army photo ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Human facial expressions could be one of the keys in building ...
New multiple myeloma therapy shows promise in preclinical study
Credit: Images created by S. Durand-Panteix and I. Quelven-Bertin, et al, University of Limoges, CNRS, INSERM Reston, VA--A new alpha-radioimmunotherapy, ...
Horizon31 startup licenses ORNL global communication system for drones
Credit: Horizon31, LLC Horizon31, LLC, of Knoxville, Tenn., has exclusively licensed a novel communication system that allows users to reliably ...
WVU expands pioneering Alzheimer’s treatment to wider region of the brain
Credit: Marisa Sayre/West Virginia University A hospital nurse for 33 years, Nanette Miller would call her husband Frank at the ...
The bouncer in the brain
IST Austria scientists discover cells that filter and sharpen spatial signalsCredit: Rieger / IST Austria The hippocampus is a region ...
Identifying local solutions in the barotse floodplain for sustainable agriculture development
To develop locally relevant strategies that improve food security, nutrition, and conservation, researchers employed a gendered ecosystem services approach in ...
Long neck helped reptile hunt underwater
Credit: Emma Finley-Jacob Its neck was three times as long as its torso, but had only 13 extremely elongated vertebrae: ...
OU Health Sciences Center receives $38 million grant for suicide prevention
Credit: University of Oklahoma OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. - The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center has been awarded a five-year, ...
New study sheds light on evolution of hell ants from 100 million years ago
Credit: NIGPAS Ants are the most successful social insects and play an important role in modern terrestrial ecosystems. The origin ...
Scientists discover new concept of bacterial gene regulation
Research team of the Cluster of Excellence "Balance of the Microverse" at the University Jena identifies new regulatory sRNA moleculesCredit: ...
First record of invasive shell-boring worm in the Wadden Sea means trouble for oyster
Credit: Dagmar Lackschewitz In October 2014, the suspicion arose that the parasite worm Polydora websteri had found its way to ...
Tellurium makes the difference
International research team discovers unusual molecular structuresCredit: (Image: Anne Günther/Uni Jena) (Jena, Germany) The periodic system contains 118 chemical elements. ...
