Preserving Biodiversity When Agricultural Production Increases
A new study from researchers at Stanford University looks at how to preserve biodiversity while increases in agricultural production to feed people continue. To keep…
A new study from researchers at Stanford University looks at how to preserve biodiversity while increases in agricultural production to feed people continue. To keep…
The hunt for gravitational waves continues to move forward as theoretical studies and enhancements to gravitational wave detectors help guide researchers. Astronomers have long relied…
Harvard researchers are working to identify the mysterious microbes living in our intestines, hoping to better understand how the bacteria that live within us affect…
A newly published study describes how a cell reorganizes its infrastructure to heal a wound, finding that for this process the cell uses formins, key…
While the use of lead gasoline has severally dwindled since the 1970s, the effects on the environment are widespread. Scientists at MIT that have been…
While monitoring the movement of stars around the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, astronomers discovered an ionized gas cloud with a…
Astronomers have discovered an arc of light behind a galaxy cluster that is 5 to 10 times larger than other clusters from that early of…
Scientists have developed “acoustic tweezers” that use sound waves to control items regardless of their optical, electrical or magnetic properties, making them noninvasive and very…
By combining deep-space observations with the powerful Lonestar supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, astrophysicists hope to make revolutionary discoveries about dark matter. From…
A new study from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine suggests veterans with protective factors in place such as employment, spiritual faith, living…
At the edge of the solar system, Voyager 1 is reporting a sharp increase in cosmic rays that could herald the spacecraft’s long-awaited entry into…
A team of scientists analyzed and compared DNA sequences from 20 patients with hemimegalencephaly, finding that de novo somatic mutations in a trio of genes…
Researchers at MIT found that microscale roughening of a surface, which is less complex and more durable than nanometer techniques, can dramatically enhance the transfer…
Using automated cloud tracking software to analyze the movements and speeds of clouds seen in hundreds of Cassini images from 2005 through 2012, scientists have…
A newly published study examined the relationship between diabetes and cognitive decline, finding that greater levels of glycosylated hemoglobin were associated with more severe cognitive…
By analyzing the countries derived from IP addresses for a set of messages sent by 43 million anonymous Yahoo! account holders between September 2009 and…
These extraordinary 47-million-year-old fossils depict prehistoric turtles reproducing. The study was led by Walter Joyce, of the University of Tübingen in Germany, and published in…
Using a “nanoscale sandwich” design with an ultra-thin active layer, scientists at NC State University have developed a technique to create slimmer thin-film solar cells…