Galactic Warp: Does the Milky Way Move Like a Spinning Top?
An investigation carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) Žofia Chrobáková, a doctoral student at the IAC and the…
An investigation carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) Žofia Chrobáková, a doctoral student at the IAC and the…
Deep Oceans Dissolve the Rocky Shell of Water-Ice Planets What is happening deep beneath the surface of ice planets? Is there liquid water, and if…
Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) Collaboration directly observed a spectral softening of helium nuclei at about 34TeV for the first time. This work was based…
Scientists from Japan employ a novel two-step method of labeling neurotransmitter receptor proteins to track their localization efficiently. The neurons in our nervous system “talk”…
One hundred fifty years ago, Dmitri Mendeleev created the periodic table, a system for classifying atoms based on the properties of their nuclei. This week,…
What does quark-gluon plasma — the hot soup of elementary particles formed a few microseconds after the Big Bang — have in common with tap…
All five of North America’s Great Lakes are pictured in this spectacular satellite image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission: Lake Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie,…
Salk Institute research reveals clues about molecular changes underlying muscle loss tied to aging. One of the many effects of aging is loss of muscle…
New findings demonstrate how the brain’s memory center operates at a ‘watershed’ making it especially vulnerable to damage Study suggests increasing blood flow in the…
New Tool Combines Ultrasound, Genetics to Activate Deep Brain Neurons Neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy have had some treatment success with deep…
Corals that withstood a severe bleaching event and were transplanted to a different reef maintained their resilient qualities, according to a new study led by…
The science team is studying the clouds, which arrived earlier and formed higher than expected, to learn more about the Red Planet. In the thin,…
Alzheimer’s disease – also called dementia – where memory and cognitive functions gradually decline due to deformation and death of neurons, and Parkinson’s disease, which…
This Week’s Full Moon was the Flower, Corn Planting, or Milk Moon, Vesak or Buddha Purnima, a Lunar Eclipse, and a Supermoon. The full Moon…
The Collaborative Research Center Transregio “Strongly Interacting Matter under Extreme Conditions,” a joint initiative of the Technical University of Darmstadt, Goethe University Frankfurt and Bielefeld…
Among individuals with healthy kidneys, those with more frequent depressive symptoms were more likely to show signs of rapid kidney function decline over a median…
An international research team, led by scientists from Tübingen and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) discovers additional component in staphylococcal cell wall that…
New study finds one species will adopt another species’ calls in shared territory. New research has discovered that monkeys will use the “accent” of another…