Hubble Image of the Week: The Mysteries of UGC 8201
This newly released Hubble image shows irregular galaxy UGC 8201, which is located roughly 15 million light-years away. The galaxy UGC 8201, captured here by…
EPFL Sheds New Light on the Fundamental Mechanisms of Heat Dissipation in Graphene
Scientists from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne shed new light on the fundamental mechanisms of heat dissipation in graphene and other two-dimensional materials. In the…
Hypothalamic Agrp Neurons Also Control Compulsive Behaviors
A newly published study from Yale University shows that in the absence of food, Agrp neurons trigger foraging and repetitive behaviors in mice. In the…
Yale Maps Evolutionary Changes of the Human Brain
New research from Yale University reveals a detailed catalog of human-specific changes in gene regulation and pinpoints several biological processes potentially guided by these regulatory…
NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Achieves Orbit Around Ceres
At 5:36 a.m. PST on March 6th, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft became the first mission to achieve orbit around a dwarf planet. The spacecraft was approximately…
New Isotopic Measurements Reveal Mars Once Had More Water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean
New measurements by researchers at NASA reveal that an ocean once covered approximately twenty percent of the Martian surface, making Mars is considerably wetter than…
Merlin Protein Promotes Effective and Rapid Wound Healing
New research from the Max Planck Institute details how the protein merlin regulates collective cell movement, promoting effective and rapid wound healing. Cells also follow…
New Circuits That Can Control Light and Sound
A team of researchers has developed hybrid technologies that can control light and sound, allowing information to be stored, filtered, and manipulated with far greater…
The Senkyo Region of Titan
This new Cassini image was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.2 million miles and looks toward the Saturn-facing side of Titan. Named after a…
Astronomers Identify a Quadruple Star System, 30 Ari
Using the Robo-AO adaptive optics system and the PALM-3000 adaptive optics system, astronomers have identified a planet in a quadruple star system for only the…
Unusual Form of Cosmic Precipitation Can Affect the Growth and Evolution of Galaxies
New research based on X-ray data from Chandra shows how an unusual form of cosmic precipitation can affect the growth and evolution of galaxies, slowing…
Scientists Discover a Gene for Brain Size
A team of researchers has identified for the first time a gene (ARHGAP11B) that is only present in humans and contributes to the reproduction of…
Possible Signs of Progress in the Fight Against Parkinson’s
By using induced pluripotent stem cells, researchers have markedly reduced the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease in primates. Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at University-affiliated…
New Nanodevice Defeats Drug Resistance By Turning Off Drug-Resistance Genes
Researchers from MIT have developed a new nanodevice that can defeat drug resistance by turning off the drug-resistant gene and then releasing cancer drugs against…
Yale Develops a Faster and Less Expensive Way to Analyze Gene Activity
A newly published study details a method called modular, early-tagged amplification (META) RNA profiling that can quantify a broad panel of microRNAs or mRNAs simultaneously…
Scientists Reproduce the Building Blocks of Life
Scientists from NASA’s Ames Research Center have demonstrated for the first time that they can make uracil, cytosine, and thymine, all three components of RNA…
New Research Reveals Two Solar Wind Jets in the Heliosphere
New research shows that the heliosphere is dominated by two giant jets of material shooting backwards over the north and south poles of the sun,…
Physicists Demonstrate Ponderomotive Spectroscopy
In a new study, researchers at the University of Michigan detail how they used light to study and control matter with 1,000 times better resolution…