New Insights into How Retrograde Planets May Form and Endure
Astronomers continue to research the HAT-P-7 planetary system, looking for new insights into how retrograde planets may form and endure. Astronomers have used the Subaru…
Stem Cell Biologists Turn One Form of Neuron Into Another
New research from stem cell biologists at Harvard University demonstrates the ability to turn one type neuron into another within the brain of young mice,…
Study Shows that Dung Beetles Use Stars for Orientation
Researchers at Wits University demonstrated the use of the starry sky for orientation in dung beetles and provided the first documented use of the Milky…
Switching Behavior of Pulsar Challenges Emission Theories
Astrophysicists at the University of Vermont have identified a pulsar that is able to quiet its radio waves while at the same time making its…
Red Novae Help Explain the Secret Life of Binary Stars
A newly published study from the University of Alberta examines what happens when binary stars come together in a common envelope, provides a way to…
Seasonal Thawing Transforms Mars Surface
A new video from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the springtime thaw of seasonal carbon dioxide ice on Mars that allows dust and gas to…
Personal Experience of Climate Change May Influence Opinion of It
A study from scientists at Yale University examined the extent to which 91,000 individuals in 89 countries on five continents detected recent changes in average…
First USA Alzheimer’s Patient Implanted With Brain Pacemaker
A new study that involves implanting a pacemaker in the brain is underway to determine if deep brain stimulation (DBS), the same technology used to…
Discovery of ‘Bird-Dinosaur’ Eosinopteryx Challenges Bird Evolution Theory
Findings related to the newly discovered ‘bird-dinosaur’ Eosinopteryx suggest that the origin of flight was much more complex than previously thought. The discovery of a…
Mathematical Model May Explain What Dark Matter Consists Of
University of Oslo’s leading theorist in astroparticle physics, Are Raklev, has launched a model that explains what dark matter may consist of and how one…
Scarecrow Gene May Lead to New Varieties of Staple Crops With Higher Yields
Scientists at Cornell University believe that the Scarecrow gene — the first gene discovered to control Kranz anatomy, which leads to more efficient photosynthesis —…
Controlled Graphene Crumpling Used as Artificial Muscle Actuators
By developing a method to reversibly control the crumpling and unfolding of large-area graphene sheets, researchers at Duke University were able to demonstrate that crumpled…
NASA’s Image of the Day Shows Saturnian Moons Prometheus and Pan
This NASA image of the day shows Saturn’s moons Prometheus and Pan through Saturn’s rings captured in visible violet light by the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle…
Hi-C Captures the Highest-Resolution Images Ever of the Sun’s Corona
Using a resolution five times higher than previous imagers, NASA’s High Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C) captured the highest-resolution images ever taken of the sun’s million-degree…
Astronomers Measure the Temperature of the Universe 7.2 Billion Years Ago
Using the CSIRO Australia Telescope Compact Array, scientists led by Sebastien Muller have made the most precise measurement ever of how the universe has cooled…
Scientists Create “Ghost-Illusion” Cloaking Device
Using the space transformation theory and engineering capability of metamaterials, researchers from Southeast University in China, National University of Singapore and University of Birmingham have…
The Hormone Oxytocin Plays a Key Role in Maintaining Social Relations in Chimpanzees
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute have discovered that cooperative relationships between chimpanzees are facilitated by an endocrinological mechanism involving the hormone oxytocin, even when…
Silicon Nanoparticles React with Water to Produce Hydrogen
Scientists at the University at Buffalo have created spherical silicon nanoparticles that react with water to form silicic acid and hydrogen, a potential source of…
