Engines of twingenuity: NASA’s twin study investigators have a meeting of the minds
Credit: NASA/Time If you took all the DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) in your body and strung it end-to-end, it would reach all the way to Pluto...
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Sediment from Himalayas may have made 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake more severe
Credit: Tim Fulton, IODP-JRSO CORVALLIS, Ore. - Sediment that eroded from the Himalayas and Tibetan plateau over millions of years was transported thousands of kilometers...
A flip switch for binge-eating?
Credit: Carla Schaffer / AAAS Researchers have identified a subgroup of neurons in the mouse brain that, upon activation, immediately prompt binge-like eating. Furthermore, repeated...
Study: A new way to slow cancer cell growth
Credit: University of Rochester Medical Center Cancer is an extremely complex disease, but its definition is quite simple: the abnormal and uncontrollable growth of cells....
Research could bring ‘drastically’ higher resolution to your TV and smartphone
Credit: University of Central Florida Researchers at the University of Central Florida have developed a new color changing surface tunable through electrical voltage - a...
US nuclear regulators greatly underestimate potential for nuclear disaster
Credit: Photo courtesy of Michael Schoeppner, Princeton University, Program on Science and Global Security PRINCETON, N.J.--The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) relied on faulty analysis...
Researchers develop magnetic switch to turn on and off a strange quantum property
Credit: Christopher Gutiérrez, Daniel Walkup/NIST When a ballerina pirouettes, twirling a full revolution, she looks just as she did when she started. But for electrons...
The big star that couldn’t become a supernova
Credit: Credit: NASA, ESA, P. Jeffries (STScI) COLUMBUS, Ohio -- For the first time in history, astronomers have been able to watch as a dying...
Jupiter’s complex transient auroras
Combined observations from three spacecraft show that Jupiter's brightest auroral features recorded to date are powered by both the volcanic moon Io and interaction with...
Collapsing star gives birth to a black hole
Credit: NASA, ESA, and C. Kochanek (OSU) Astronomers have watched as a massive, dying star was likely reborn as a black hole. It took the...
Study provides better understanding of how brain tumors ‘feed’
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center All cancer tumors have one thing in common - they must feed themselves to grow and spread, a difficult feat...
UW engineers borrow from electronics to build largest circuits in eukaryotic cells
Credit: University of Washington Living cells must constantly process information to keep track of the changing world around them and arrive at an appropriate response....
Expressing genetic interactions through music
Loading video... Credit: Max Cooper/Andy Lomas An artistic collaboration between musician and sound producer Max Cooper, respected visual artist Andy Lomas and researchers from the...
The best teams of the engineering competition ‘Capture the Flag’ were awarded
Credit: Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University On May 24, at the Plenary session of the International Polytechnic Week, the winners of the students'...
Preliminary: BRCA variations may work alongside COMT variation to reduce breast cancer
WASHINGTON (May 25, 2017) -- Research looking at genomic data from women with a genetic risk for breast cancer, who may never develop cancer, found...
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