Scientists Engineer Brain Cells to Produce Light
Neuroscientists from Brown University and Central Michigan University are working to make optogenetics even more powerful in the brain and beyond. Providence, Rhode Island (Brown…
Neuroscientists from Brown University and Central Michigan University are working to make optogenetics even more powerful in the brain and beyond. Providence, Rhode Island (Brown…
This new image from New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager reveals new details of Pluto’s largest moon Charon. The image was taken on July 13,…
This new animation from NASA combines various observations of Pluto over the course of several decades. The first frame is a digital zoom-in on Pluto…
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft shows a close-up image of an equatorial region near the base of Pluto’s bright heart-shaped feature, revealing a mountain range with…
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry reveal that lichens, mosses, and cyanobacteria produce large amounts of nitrous oxide. Inconspicuous creatures surprise with a…
Using the ESO 3.6-meter telescope, an international team of astronomers has identified a planet just like Jupiter orbiting at the same distance from the Sun-like…
In a newly published study scientists from MIT and Brookhaven National Laboratory reveal how electrical charge carriers move in conjugated polymers, potentially opening up further…
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft has completed its flyby of Pluto, collecting so much data it will take 16 months to send it all back to…
This short NASA video shows New Horizons’ view of Pluto during the final week of its almost 10-year, three-billion-mile journey towards the dwarf planet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93SkmOj06Xo
These new false color images from the New Horizons Spacecraft reveal that Pluto and Charon are truly complex worlds. New Horizons has obtained impressive new…
Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have reported the discovery of a class of particles known as pentaquarks. “The pentaquark is not just any new…
Researchers from UCLA have identified a new mechanism that delivers glucose to cancer cells, providing evidence that drugs used to treat diabetes could be used…
A team of researchers from MIT and UCLA have identified zebra-like stripes of plasma in a region of space about 12,000 miles from Earth’s surface….
Richard Binzel, a New Horizons mission co-investigator, takes time to answer questions about New Horizons unprecedented view of Pluto and how the new images may…
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft has only just reached Pluto, but it has already solved a decades-long debated question about the dwarf planet: How big is…
After three billion miles and a decade-long journey through our solar system, NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft has finally reached Pluto. New Horizons made its closest…
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology reveal how flowers use scent and nectar to manipulate pollinators and herbivores. Some pollinators not only…
Using a 3D printer, Harvard engineers have developed one of the first soft robots that moves autonomously. Traditional industrial robots are rigid — mostly metal…