New Computer Model Designs Complicated 3D Structures From DNA
Biological engineers from MIT have developed a new computer model that enables them to design the most complicated 3D structures ever made from DNA, including…
Biological engineers from MIT have developed a new computer model that enables them to design the most complicated 3D structures ever made from DNA, including…
Using a new algorithm, engineers from Stanford University have developed a prism-like device that can split a beam of light into different colors and bend…
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have developed brain-reading techniques that use neural representations of social thoughts to predict autism diagnoses with 97 percent accuracy, establishing…
Astronomers have discovered a new example of a very rare type of galaxy that may yield valuable insight on how galaxies developed in the early…
A new study from MIT shows that the effects of smaller eruptions have been underestimated in climate models, revealing that relatively small volcanic eruptions can…
A newly published study from Yale University shows that although Capuchin monkeys exhibit a number of irrational behaviors similar to humans, the monkeys aren’t fooled…
Using the Keck Interferometer, new research shows that mature, sun-like stars appear to be, on average, not all that dusty. This is good news for…
A new study from the Berkeley Lab reveals that proper copper levels are essential to the health of a brain at rest and suggests that…
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund have decoded the three-dimensional structure of the calcium channel with unprecedented accuracy. Whenever muscles…
Using the W. M. Keck Observatory, scientists have developed a new way of measuring precise distances to galaxies tens of millions of light-years away. The…
A newly published study reveals that small space rocks, or planetesimals, may have bombarded Earth around the time the moon was formed, kicking up clouds…
In a newly published study, neurologists from Yale University have reawakened rats after seizures by stimulating parts of the brain involved in conscious awareness. The…
Using a combination of data from Cassini’s December 2000 Jupiter flyby and laboratory experiments, new research suggests effects of sunlight produce the color of Jupiter’s…
NASA scientists are developing the capabilities needed to send humans to an asteroid by 2025 and to Mars by the 2030s. In the not-too-distant future,…
A newly published study from Rice University shows that graphene is 10 times better than steel at absorbing the energy of a penetrating projectile. Graphene’s…
Using data from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have pioneered a new method to evaluate the turbulence of the…
Using the 2.5-meter Nordic Optical Telescope, astronomers have measured the transit of exoplanet 55 Cancri e — this is the first time that a super-Earth…
A new biotech device from MIT reduces the unpredictability of biological components and could ultimately allow such circuits to behave nearly as predictably as their…