Proof it’s possible to enhance or suppress memories
Boston University neuroscientist shows that stimulating different parts of the brain can dial up or down a specific memory's emotional oomphCredit: The Ramirez Group, Boston...
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Sandia launches a bus into space
HOT SHOT sounding rocket program picks up flight paceCredit: Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories recently launched a bus into space. Not...
A ‘crisper’ method for gene editing in fungi
Scientists devise a novel genome editing method for filamentous fungi, based on the CRISPR/Cas9 platform CRISPR/Cas9 is now a household name associated with genetic engineering...
Young athletes may need one-year break after knee surgery
Credit: Photo by Magnus Beischer After surgical reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament, young athletes are now recommended to undergo at least a year's rehab...
Russian scientists discover one of the mechanisms of water formation on the moon
The discovery will help analyse the processes occurring near the lunar surface The results of recent study conducted by the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the...
How does the nervous system create behavior? Muscle activity map in Hydra gives insight
Credit: John Szymanski WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- Accomplishing perhaps a world first, researchers at Columbia University and the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) have mapped the...
Could there be life without carbon? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, May 23, 2019 -- One element is the backbone of all forms of life we've ever discovered on Earth:...
$12.5 million grant funds ambitious collaboration shedding light on major diseases
Credit: Dan Addison | University of Virginia Communications A groundbreaking research collaboration at the University of Virginia School of Medicine that is shedding light on...
Plumbene, graphene’s latest cousin, realized on the ‘nano water cube’
Credit: Junji Yuhara Two-dimensional materials made of Group 14 elements, graphene's cousins, have attracted enormous interest in recent years because of their unique potential as...
Progress in hunt for unknown compounds in drinking water
When we drink a glass of water, we ingest an unknown amount of by-products that are formed in the treatment process. And we don't know...
Good fellows: 2019 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellows announced
How can the neuroscience behind emotion lead to new concepts of artificial intelligence? How does the human brain make fast decisions in real-world scenarios--and what...
New understanding of how cells form tunnels may help in treating wounds, tumors
Credit: Virginia Tech A simple slice of the finger sends a complex series of interactions between types of cells into motion. Two types of cells...
Translational research led by Singapore scientists uncovers new treatment for fatty liver disease
Credit: Dr. Eleonora Adami, Duke-NUS Medical School A team of researchers led by Duke-NUS Medical School and National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS) found that deactivating...
Artificial atomic scale materials: Discovering how electrons fatten!
A single and isolated electron has a clear electrical charge, magnetic moment and mass, and its free movement can be precisely predicted. Spanish scientists fabricated...
DFG to fund 13 new research training groups
Topics range from the physics of the heaviest particles to cybercrime and the consequences of social services work / €65 million for initial four-and-a-half-year period...
