Tertiary Mirror Allows World’s Biggest Eye on the Sky to Image With Unprecedented Quality
ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the world’s biggest eye on the sky, will have a pioneering five-mirror optical system that will allow it to unveil…
ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the world’s biggest eye on the sky, will have a pioneering five-mirror optical system that will allow it to unveil…
New Analysis: Novel Coronavirus Receptors Show Similarities to SARS-CoV The recent emergence of Wuhan coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has put the world on high alert for transcontinental…
Eight controlled trials previously reported that zinc lozenges reduced the duration of the common cold, but several other trials did not find benefit. Variation in…
The reference particle captured light for a time exceeding 200 periods of one wave oscillation, 20-40 times longer than usual; this opens new perspectives in…
Effortless learning during sleep is the dream of many people. The supportive effect of smells on learning success when presented both during learning and sleep…
Note: There is now a newer Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Report 14. WHO Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Report 13 No new countries have reported cases…
A ketogenic diet — which provides 99% of calories from fat and only 1% from carbohydrates — produces health benefits in the short term, but…
Ice loss from Pine Island Glacier has contributed more to sea-level rise over the past four decades than any other glacier in Antarctica. However, the…
One wasp species has evolved the ability to recognize individual faces among their peers — something that most other insects cannot do — signaling an…
New study finds surface waters on early Mars may have been habitable for microbial life. Presently, Earth is the only known location where life exists…
DNA proteins extracted using a vortex fluidic device (VFD) could help answer important questions about extinct and ancient museum specimens. DNA in preserved museum specimens…
Note: There is now a newer Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Report 13. WHO Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Report 12 The main driver of transmission, based…
University of Queensland researchers completed the first MRI-based mapping of the squid brain in 50 years to develop an atlas of neural connections. We are…
With ‘Zee burst,’ physicists propose new resonance beyond the standard model. Physicists at Washington University in St. Louis have proposed a way to use data…
China Health Threats Likely to Increase Due to Heatwaves Study reveals climate change will pose a deadly threat in China in the future as heatwaves…
The first European device to land on the Moon this decade will be a drill and sample analysis package, and the teams behind it are…
Efforts to avoid appearing dishonest may actually lead to lying, study finds. People may lie to appear honest if events that turned out in their…
As well as sequencing the whole genome of coronavirus 2019-nCoV, the Institut Pasteur continued to work on the samples taken from the first confirmed cases….