Artificial System Models Light-Capturing Method Used by Deep-Sea Bacteria
Hoping to find a more efficient light-harvesting process, MIT scientists analyzed an artificial system that uses a self-assembling system of dye molecules that form perfectly…
Hoping to find a more efficient light-harvesting process, MIT scientists analyzed an artificial system that uses a self-assembling system of dye molecules that form perfectly…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of U Cam coughing out a spherical shell of gas as a layer of helium around its core…
A team of scientists discovered that spaceflight suppressed the accumulation of toxic proteins and a group of genes, which when lowered in worms back on…
A newly published study from Bioengineers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science describes the effects of confined mechanical environments on…
Using interferometric measurements to achieve extremely high angular resolutions, the RadioAstron mission will enable astronomers to study scientific topics like particle acceleration near supermassive black…
Developed by engineers at the Wyss Institute, a new biomimetic strategy delivers life-saving nanotherapeutics directly to obstructed blood vessels, dissolving blood clots before they cause…
Next month at the ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, a team of researchers will present a new algorithm they developed that allows…
First seen by the NASA Infrared Astronomical Satellite in 1983, the dusty disk around a young sun-like star called TYC 8241 2652 has disappeared, leaving…
With physical barriers limiting further increases in semiconductor electronic efficiency, scientists at the University of Pittsburgh redesigned the structure of the vacuum electronic device, allowing…
With yesterday’s announcement of the likely discovery of the Higgs boson, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory takes a moment to reflect on how we got to…
A new report from the Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science and the Marine Institute describes for the first time a globally synchronous pattern…
While studying the brightness of stars in near-infrared light, a team of astronomers discovered several red dwarf binaries with orbital periods significantly shorter than the…
Two different studies published in the journal Nature reveal that cancers can resist destruction by drugs with the help of proteins recruited from surrounding tissues….
The Sun celebrated July 4, 2012, by sending out an M5.3 class solar flare from region AR1515, the same region that produced an M5.6 class…
A filament of dark matter, which works like the Universe’s backbone, and dictates where galaxies can form, was observed for the first time by astronomers…
A new study from biological engineers at MIT looks at how cells alter their chemical modification of molecules, known as transfer RNA (tRNA), to survive…
A newly published study from scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg and Aarhus University in Denmark shows that new fungi,…
Scientists estimated that several large impact events on Mars could have launched significant amounts of Martian material into space, leading them to believe that if…