Melting Arctic Ice May Lead to Severe Weather Changes
A newly published study from Cornell University scientists suggests that the melting of Arctic sea ice due to climate change can lead to increased odds…
A newly published study from Cornell University scientists suggests that the melting of Arctic sea ice due to climate change can lead to increased odds…
While working with patients with Lou Gehrig’s disease, researchers at UCLA found that inflammation instigated by the immune system in ALS can trigger macrophages to…
MINOS scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory revealed the world’s most precise measurement of the parameter called delta m squared, closing the measured gap…
By analyzing fossil evidence from skeletons, eggs, and soft tissue of birdlike dinosaurs and primitive birds, a newly published study from Harvard scientists shows that…
A new study from the Berkeley Lab takes a step forward in the fight against breast cancer, gaining a better understanding of the cellular basis…
Microglia are brain cells, whose spider-like resting state was somewhat mysterious until Axel Nimmerjahn, biophysicist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, began to…
While studying neutrino properties and searching for a mechanism called “neutrinoless double-beta decay,” scientists at the Enriched Xenon Observatory 200 found with the highest degree…
With the Venus transit set to occur, researchers will also be studying the Arc of Venus to better under why our sister planet’s atmosphere evolved…
A new survey from MIT is the first to systematically investigate the efforts of cities around the globe to adapt to climate change, showing that…
1,200 years ago, tree rings recorded an abnormally large radiation burst. It’s even more mysterious since this spike in carbon-14 levels indicates a massive cosmic…
Observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory suggest that a supermassive black hole is being ejected from its host galaxy at a speed of at least…
A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the butterfly-shaped cloud of glowing gas and dust that is the wreckage of a star similar…
By using bilayer graphene, researchers at the University of Maryland developed a new type of hot electron bolometer, which is expected to be sensitive to…
Biochemists at UCLA used computer models to identify proteins that could be combined to form tiny molecular cages that are hundreds of times smaller than…
Tomorrow, June 5, 2012, will provide astronomers and enthusiasts with a chance to view a very rare phenomenon known as the Venus Transit, which doesn’t…
Co-developed by Harvard Medical School researchers and colleagues, a new computer-based simulation tool, the Cataract Master, aims to minimize clinical risk while providing residents and…
A new study using the antibody drug BMS-936558 (MDX-1106, anti-PD-1), resulted in tumor shrinkage of at least 30 percent in 18 percent of lung cancer…
New research from the Max Planck Institute examines the role of cryptogamic covers in the global exchange of oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen. Covering approximately 30%…