Smithsonian Ecologists Study the Realtionship Between Fungi-Filled Forests and Endangered Orchids
Smithsonian ecologists are publishing new research that shows how an orchid’s survival depends on fungi and the age of the forest that it is growing…
Smithsonian ecologists are publishing new research that shows how an orchid’s survival depends on fungi and the age of the forest that it is growing…
A recent study shows how psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, affects brain activity. 30 healthy volunteers underwent MRIs while having psilocybin in their…
A research team, comprised of Sandia chemists, is researching ways to make nuclear fuel reprocessing cleaner and to reduce the volume of high-level wastes. By…
Givaudan, a Swiss flavor company, turned to MIT researchers to help them analyze their taste-test results. Since testers tend to suffer from “smell fatigue” and…
In order to search for better cures for neurological and psychiatric diseases, researchers have had to tackle the mammalian brain and its intricate complexity of…
A controversial study from 2010 was relatively refuted by a group of scientists, trying to duplicate the findings that were published in Science. Researchers have…
While it’s colloquially believed that psychedelic drugs, such as magic mushrooms, have the capacity to expand the minds of its users, researchers have actually shown…
Students tend to take far from optimal ways to assimilate information, especially when it comes to exams. Scientists Tim Novikoff, Jon Kleinbert, and Steve Strogatz…
Clutches of eggs and tiny dinosaur footprints found at a recently unearthed excavation site reveal that dinosaurs may have remained at their nesting site for…
Researchers at Kyoto University and the University of Oxford utilized DNA origami to build a motor capable of traversing a network of tracks and switches….
There is virtually no change in the way water interacts with materials including copper, gold, and silicon after they are coated with a single layer…
Graphene is the thinnest known material. In fact, according to a new study, it is so thin that it is essentially invisible to water when…
The 35 scientists from 14 countries participating in the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 339, Mediterranean Outflow, retrieved the first sediment samples from below…
MIT neuroscientists are studying the patterns of brain activity that correlate with empathy. They hope to use their findings to determine how well people respond…
Researchers have been designing a wide variety of self-propelled micromotors, many which operate using an oxygen-bubble propulsion mechanism that requires a high concentration of hydrogen…
Online gamers obsessed with puzzles have now topped what scientists had failed to do by themselves, which was to improve the model of an enzyme….
DARPA’s research team at Harvard University is focusing on electricity as a means to fight fire. By using a flame-suppression system based on destabilization of…
Technology developed by Bio Architecture Lab, primarily an engineered microbe that can metabolize alginate, may make seaweed an economical feedstock for the production of biofuel. Since…