New Metabolic Pathway More Efficiently Converts Sugars into Biofuels
UCLA scientists have developed a new synthetic glycolytic pathway that converts all six glucose carbon atoms into three molecules of acetyl-CoA without losing any as…
UCLA scientists have developed a new synthetic glycolytic pathway that converts all six glucose carbon atoms into three molecules of acetyl-CoA without losing any as…
A team of researchers has developed a new method to speed up the stabilization of chaotic systems. When chaos threatens, speed is essential; for example,…
This short narrative looks back on how NASA engineers revamped the Spitzer Space Telescope to probe exoplanets. Now approaching its 10th anniversary, NASA’s Spitzer Space…
Scientists from UC Santa Barbara are making headway in quantum information transfer. They recently published a new study that describes a nanomechanical transducer that provides…
According to newly published research, some of the largest ocean eddies on Earth are mathematically equivalent to the mysterious black holes of space. These eddies…
Researchers from Drexel University have developed a microbicide that can trick HIV into “popping” itself into oblivion, destroying the virus without harming healthy cells. Pinning…
An international team of researchers has reported the first demonstration of high-temperature superconductivity in the surface of a topological insulator. Reliable quantum computing would make…
Scientists at the University of Southampton examine the aerodynamic performance of feathered, non-avian dinosaurs, providing new insight into the evolution of bird flight. In recent…
A newly published study shows that the basic building blocks of life as we know it can be assembled anywhere in the Solar System, confirming…
Data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope helped astronomers discover that the large asteroid called Don Quixote is in fact a comet. For 30 years, a…
In a newly published study, neurobiologists demonstrate the ability to create specific memories by directly altering brain cells in the cerebral cortex. Irvine, California —…
A new four-minute ScienceCast video explores the strange phenomena coming from the tops of thunderstorms and details the new ISS experiment called “Firestation” that is…
Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey have discovered evidence of diverse life forms in the sediments of an Antarctic subglacial lake for the first time….
Scientists from Curtin University and the Technical University Munich have created the highest-resolution maps of Earth’s gravity field to date, revealing gravitational variations up to…
Physicists from the Max Planck Institute and the Perimeter Institute in Canada have developed a new approach to the unification of the general theory of…
Researchers from the University of Calgary have developed a new quantum key distribution (QKD) system that implements a recently discovered new QKD protocol to enhance…
Using laser light in a vacuum, physicists were able to spin a microscopic sphere up to 600 million RPM, creating the fastest rotating man-made object….
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute have discovered that the brain uses the cortex for making sensory associations, not the hippocampus. ‘Where’ and ‘how’ memories…