NASA’s Aqua satellite sees remnants of Tropical Cyclone Tokage
Credit: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team Tropical Cyclone Tokage fell apart after crossing the Philippines and moving into the South China Sea where wind...
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Secret phenotypes: Disease devils in invisible details
Loading video... Credit: Georgia Tech / Hang Lu When a microscopic lab worm grows an eye-popping oddity, scientists locate the mutated gene that caused it....
Nano factories to prevent bacterial colonization
Credit: University of Konstanz The award ceremony will take place on Wednesday, 30 November 2016 at 16:00 in the university's Senatssaal. The funding from the...
Model could shatter a mystery of glass
Credit: (Video by Ge Zhang, Department of Chemistry) A glass is a curious material in between liquid and solid states of matter, but eventually glass...
A new technique for structural color, inspired by birds
Credit: (Image courtesy of Henning Galinski) A peacock's bright teal and brilliant blue feathers are not the result of pigments but rather nanoscale networks that...
What’s up with Madagascar?
Credit: Rando Trek VTT Madagascar, the big island off the east coast of Africa with the lemurs and baobabs, is thought to be sitting in...
Modern hunter-gatherers show value of exercise
Credit: Photo: Brian Wood In a remote area of north-central Tanzania, men leave their huts on foot, armed with bows and poison-tipped arrows, to hunt...
Young toddlers can tell when others hold false beliefs, study finds
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) A new study finds that, under the right conditions, 2 1/2-year-old children can answer questions about people acting on false...
Largest resource of human protein-protein interactions can help interpret genomic data
An international research team has developed the largest database of protein-to-protein interaction networks, a resource that can illuminate how numerous disease-associated genes contribute to disease..
Smart patch releases blood thinners as needed
Credit: Yuqi Zhang An interdisciplinary team of researchers has developed a smart patch designed to monitor a patient's blood and release blood-thinning drugs as needed...
Gene discovered to cause rare, severe neurological disease
Credit: Peter McPherson Lab, Montreal Neurological Institute Researchers have linked a debilitating neurological disease in children to mutations in a gene that regulates neuronal development...
Wound irrigation tools improvised in the wilderness are effective
Credit: Susanne J. Spano Philadelphia, PA, November 28, 2016 - Wounds are a very common injury and irrigation is crucial for preventing infection. Wound irrigation...
Toxic ‘marine snow’ can sink quickly, persist at ocean depths
Credit: Astrid Schnetzer In a new study, researchers from North Carolina State University found that a specific neurotoxin can persist and accumulate in "marine snow"...
It’s all in the eyes: Women and men really do see things differently
Women and men look at faces and absorb visual information in different ways, which suggests there is a gender difference in understanding visual cues, according...
Timing the shadow of a potentially habitable extrasolar planet
Credit: NAOJ A group of researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), the University of Tokyo, and the Astrobiology Center among others has...
