Neurologists Track and Precisely Image Myelin Throughout a Lifetime
Myelin acts as insulation for millions of brain cells, allowing for swift and efficient transmission of signals across brain regions. Despite its crucial role, little…
Myelin acts as insulation for millions of brain cells, allowing for swift and efficient transmission of signals across brain regions. Despite its crucial role, little…
You may have heard every vitamin D myth under the sun—so many, in fact, that you might be at the point of throwing your hands…
This idyllic scene, packed with glowing galaxies, has something truly remarkable at its core: an untouched relic of the ancient Universe. This relic can be…
About 70,000 years ago, when the human species was already on Earth, a small reddish star approached our solar system and gravitationally disturbed comets and…
The average American drinks more than three cups of coffee a day, contributing to a $40 billion industry in the U.S. alone, according to the…
Scientists have found that drugs are now so prevalent that 13 percent of those taking part in a test were found to have traces of…
A radiologist’s ability to make accurate diagnoses from high-quality diagnostic imaging studies directly impacts patient outcome. However, acquiring sufficient data to generate the best quality…
Understanding strontium titanate’s odd behavior will aid efforts to develop materials that conduct electricity with 100 percent efficiency at higher temperatures. Until about 50 years…
The breakthrough means masers — the microwave version of lasers — could now be used more widely in a range of applications. Masers (microwave amplification…
Researchers out of the Camera Culture Group at the MIT Media Lab have developed a novel imaging system that can gauge the distance of objects…
NASA will test a parachute for possible future missions to Mars from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Tuesday, March 27. Live coverage of…
In laser facilities in the UK, Imperial physicists are testing an 84-year-old theory which was once thought impossible to prove. The theory of the Breit-Wheeler…
More Arctic sea ice is entering the North Atlantic Ocean than before, making it increasingly dangerous for ships to navigate those waters in late spring,…
With an atomic structure resembling a Japanese basketweaving pattern, “kagome metal” exhibits exotic, quantum behavior. A motif of Japanese basketweaving known as the kagome pattern…
Signals suggest a black hole emits a jet of energy proportional to the stellar material it gobbles up. On November 11, 2014, a global network…
The Hubble Space Telescope has not produced images of every object in the Messier catalog, it has observed 93 of them as of February 2018….
New research has revealed that a giant impact on Mars more than four billion years ago would explain the unusual amount of “iron loving” elements…
A team of researchers from the University of Freiburg have discovered how the plant hormone auxin is transported within the cell and how this signaling…