Engineers Configure RFID Tags to Work as Sensors
These days, many retailers and manufacturers are tracking their products using RFID, or radio-frequency identification tags. Often, these tags come in the form of paper-based…
Scientists Identify a Gene Critical for Male Sex Development
Scientists have identified a key enhancer of Sox9 — a gene critical for male sex development — and demonstrated that deleting that non-coding DNA results…
Astronomers Identified Moons Capable of Supporting Life
We’ve all heard about the search for life on other planets, but what about looking on other moons? In a paper published Wednesday (June 13)…
Lunar Meteorite Discovery Reinforces Belief That Water Exists on the Moon
A team of Japanese scientists led by Masahiro Kayama of Tohoku University’s Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, has discovered a mineral known as moganite…
Amber Fossils Provide Earliest Direct Evidence of Frogs
About 99 million years ago, a tiny juvenile frog in present-day Myanmar was suddenly trapped in sap with a beetle, perhaps its intended next meal….
Quantum Transmission Between Two Solid-State Qubits at the Push of a Button
In the new quantum information technologies, fragile quantum states have to be transferred between distant quantum bits. Researchers at ETH have now realized such a…
Research Shows Gamma-Ray Bursts Follow Binary Neutron Star Mergers
Researchers at Oregon State University have confirmed that last fall’s union of two neutron stars did in fact cause a short gamma-ray burst. The findings,…
Graphene Bolometer is Faster, Simpler and Covers More Wavelengths
Bolometers, devices that monitor electromagnetic radiation through heating of an absorbing material, are used by astronomers and homeowners alike. But most such devices have limited…
Engineers Develop a Probiotic Mix of Bacteria to Treat Cholera
MIT engineers have developed a probiotic mix of natural and engineered bacteria to diagnose and treat cholera, an intestinal infection that causes severe dehydration. Cholera…
NASA’s Opportunity Waits Out a Dust Storm on Mars
Science operations for NASA’s Opportunity rover have been temporarily suspended as it waits out a dust storm on Mars. This series of images shows simulated…
New Planet-Hunting Technique Identifies Unusual Patterns
Over the past several years, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has transformed our understanding of protoplanetary disks — the gas- and dust-filled planet factories…
Scientists Reveal How And Why Antarctica’s Glaciers Are Changing
New research review provides insights into the continent’s response to climate warming. Scientists from the University of Maryland, the University of Leeds and the University…
Fat Cell Filling, Ketogenic Diet, and the History of Biochemistry
Brown tissue whitening causes cell death, inflammation There’s more than one type of fat cell. Besides the white fat that stores triglycerides in lipid droplets…
Dawn Reveals Surprisingly High Concentrations of Organic Material on Ceres
A new analysis of data from NASA’s Dawn mission suggests that organic matter may exist in surprisingly high concentrations on the dwarf planet’s surface. Last…
ALMA Discovers Trio of Infant Planets Around HD 163296
Two independent teams of astronomers have used ALMA to uncover convincing evidence that three young planets are in orbit around the infant star HD 163296….
NASA to Discuss Martian Dust Storm, Mars Opportunity Rover
NASA will host a media teleconference at 1:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday, June 13, to discuss a massive Martian dust storm affecting operations of the agency’s…
Scientists Reveal the True Power of the Solar Wind
Electrically charged particles from the sun strike moons and planets with great force. The consequences of these impacts can now be explained by scientists from…
New GAIA Data Reveal Relics of Merger Events in the Milky Way
University of Groningen astronomers have discovered relics of merger events in the Milky Way halo. Five small groups of stars appear to represent mergers with…