Scientists Use Modified Version Rabies to Trace Neural Pathways in the Brain
Harvard scientists are using a genetically modified version of the rabies virus to trace neural pathways in the brain, believing that this research may lead…
Harvard scientists are using a genetically modified version of the rabies virus to trace neural pathways in the brain, believing that this research may lead…
Located about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major, galaxy UGC 5497 is a compact blue dwarf galaxy with fast-burning stars that will…
In a newly published study, an international team of scientists described how they used quantum mechanics to switch on and off the magnetism in a…
Launched in 1977, the Voyager spacecraft are now over 9 billion miles away from the sun. With new data indicating that the Voyager 1 has…
Newly published research shows that planets smaller than Neptune are located around a wide variety of stars, including those with fewer heavy elements than the…
A team of researchers from UC Irvine and the Pasteur Institute in Paris have produced a model of the Anopheles stephensi mosquito that impairs the…
A team of scientists at Stanford University are working to improve energy efficiency in computer circuits by using full-wafer scale digital logic structures that are…
A recently published study examines why Salmonella becomes dangerously virulent. While examining signals from outside the bacteria, they found that changes in the level of…
Biologists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have completed the sequencing and analysis of the genome of the bonobo, finding that the bonobo…
Using the IRAM interferometer on the Plateau de Bure, scientists from the Max Planck Institute were able to accurately measure the distance of galaxy HDF850.1,…
Using its visual and infrared mapping spectrometer, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected methane lakes in the tropical region known as Shangri-La on Saturn’s moon Titan….
With microbes outnumbering human cells by 10 to 1, the Human Microbiome Project (HMP) Consortium looks at how these microorganisms coexist with their human hosts…
During a NASA-sponsored ICESCAPE expedition, scientists found a massive algal bloom under the Arctic sea ice. Once thought impossible, this marks the first direct observation…
By combining methane measurements from a tower with model predictions of expected methane signals, scientists were able to revise the estimate of the methane emissions…
A new study challenges prevailing ideas about how supermassive black holes grow in the centers of galaxies, finding that two supermassive black holes and their…
Using images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory and the New Solar Telescope to study the sun and the dynamics behind solar explosions, scientists discovered narrow…
Scientists have completed their search for the existence of knots in the fabric of space using data from NASA’s WMAP satellite, finding no evidence of…
A team of engineers has developed a glucose fuel cell fabricated from silicon and consisting of a platinum catalyst that strips electrons from glucose, mimicking…