Reactivation of the Hippocampus Causes Memory Recall
Lost memories may be a thing of the past as neuroscientists conduct research on mice to test memory recall. By using optogenetics and stimulating the…
Simulations Show Jupiter’s Core is Liquefying
Scientists now have a better understanding of gas giant exoplanets and what is going on in their cores. By studying computer simulations, scientists believe that…
Analyzing the Environmental Costs and Impacts of Technology
With every new technology, there are costs and environmental impacts to consider, and that’s exactly what MIT’s Environmentally Benign Manufacturing research group does. By routinely…
Exposing 8,000 Years of Civilization With Satellites
Hidden beneath mounds of Earth, in the fertile crescent of the Middle East, lie overlooked networks of small settlements that date back millennia. Archaeologists are…
Gut Microbial Enterotypes Form a Spectrum Rather than Distinct Groups
Trillions of bacteria populate our intestines. While these communities vary between humans, a study published last year in the journal Nature indicated that they may…
Complete Structure of the “Salvia Receptor” Revealed
A team of researchers have determined the structure of the kappa-opioid receptor, KOR, and give details about how salvinorin A and other drugs interact with…
Poisonous Dendrobatidae Frogs are Aposematic Organisms and Critically Endangered
These colorful photos of two species of Dendrobatidae, from the Reptile House at the London Zoo, feature these critically endangered amphibians in all of their…
Nanoparticles in 3-D Atomic-Scale Resolution
Report of a new method for directly measuring the atomic structure of nanomaterials was published today in the journal Nature. By taking measurements at 69…
Earth’s Continental Crust Growth Rate Has Decreased
Newly published research shows that the growth rate of the Earth’s continental crust has decreased significantly over the last three billion years, leaving researchers to…
Dawn Images Shine New Light on Vesta
New images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft have revealed previously unknown geological features about the asteroid Vesta. While Vesta is one of the brightest objects in…
Looking Back to Move Thermoelectric Materials Forward
In search of better thermoelectric materials, a team of physicists turned to a material NASA engineers first used roughly 40 years ago for spacecraft design,…
MESSENGER Reveals New Data About Mercury
There is more to Mercury than scientists previously thought. MESSENGER, the first ever probe to enter orbit around Mercury, has collected more than four million…
Berkeley Lab Software to Optimize Jail Microgrid
Residents of northern California won’t have to worry about prisoners escaping from the Alameda County’s Santa Rita Jail in the event of a major earthquake….
New DNA Entity in Mammalian Cells
A new discovery of three unique non-repetitive microDNA sequences was made by a team of researchers at the University of North Carolina. Their research shows…
Proposed Thorium Neutron-Based Clock Would be Accurate for Billions of Years
Scientists are proposing the building of a hyper-accurate nuclear clock that would lose only one-tenth of a second over 14 billion years, the current age…
Emerald-Cut Dwarf Galaxy Located 70 Million Light-Years Away
This rare rectangular-shaped galaxy was located 70 million light-years away, 21 Mpc, in the Eridanus Group, in the constellation Eridanus. LEDA 074886 has been dubbed…
Widespread Presence of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria in Agricultural Soils
With infectious disease deaths on the rise, a new study gives reason for concern. Researchers found that agricultural soils contained more diverse populations of drug…
USGS Map Details Volcanos on the Surface of Io
This new map was published last Monday by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and it showcases the hellish surface of Jupiter’s moon Io, the…
