Hydrogen Peroxide-Sensing Molecule Helps Select Effective Cancer Therapy
MIT chemical engineers have developed a new sensor that lets them see inside cancer cells and determine whether the cells are responding to a particular…
Astronomers Confirm 44 Planets in Solar Systems Beyond Our Own
Forty-four planets in solar systems beyond our own have been unveiled in one go, dwarfing the usual number of confirmations from extrasolar surveys, which is…
Galileo Reveals Million Fold Increase in the Power of Chorus Waves Near Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede
Listening to electro-magnetic waves around the Earth, converted to sound, is almost like listening to singing and chirping birds at dawn with a crackling campfire…
NASA’s Planet-Hunting Satellite Catches a Comet in Motion
Before NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) started science operations on July 25, 2018, the planet hunter sent back a stunning sequence of serendipitous images…
Paleontologists Discover First North American Co-occurrence of Hadrosaur and Therizinosaur Tracks
An international team of paleontologists and other geoscientists has discovered the first North American co-occurrence of hadrosaur and therizinosaur tracks in the lower Cantwell Formation…
Scientists Discover Surprise Link Between Metabolism and Immunity
In the search for obesity treatments, scientists recently zeroed in on a gene known as Nucleobindin-2 (Nucb2), which was believed to play a role in…
Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment Shows Arctic Carbon Cycle is Speeding Up
When people think of the Arctic, snow, ice and polar bears come to mind. Trees? Not so much. At least not yet. A new NASA-led…
Hubble Image of the Week – Colourful Globular Cluster NGC 2108
This Picture of the Week shows the colourful globular cluster NGC 2108. The cluster is nestled within the Large Magellanic Cloud, in the constellation of…
New Clues About Eta Carinae – The Star That Wouldn’t Die
What happens when a star behaves like it exploded, but it’s still there? About 170 years ago, astronomers witnessed a major outburst by Eta Carinae,…
New Artificial Intelligence Device Identifies Objects at the Speed of Light
A team of UCLA electrical and computer engineers has created a physical artificial neural network — a device modeled on how the human brain works…
Carbon Filled Oceans Affect Tiny But Important Organism
They’re impossible to see with the naked eye. They’re difficult to pronounce. But coccolithophores, a single-celled plankton, have an outsized effect on oceans due to…
Scientists Toughening Graphene by Integrating Carbon Nanotubes
Rice University researchers have found that fracture-resistant “rebar graphene” is more than twice as tough as pristine graphene. Graphene is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon….
Scientists Identify New Way to Expand Stem Cells for Transplants
Researchers from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and collaborators have identified a way to expand blood-forming, adult stem cells from human umbilical cord blood…
Spitzer Observations of Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817
GW170817 is the name given to a gravitational wave signal seen by the LIGO and Virgo detectors on 17 August 2017. Lasting for about 100…
SWEAP Investigation Will Directly Measure Ionized Gas in the Solar Atmosphere
When NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launches into space from the Kennedy Space Center, it will begin its journey to the Sun, our nearest star. The…
Fastest Jettisoned Gas Ever Measured from a Stellar Outburst
Observations from the Gemini South and other telescopes in Chile played a critical role in understanding light echoes from a stellar eruption which occurred almost…
VLA Detects Planetary Mass Object Beyond Our Solar System
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have made the first radio-telescope detection of a planetary-mass object beyond our…
Scientists Reveal Homo Sapiens’ Secret of Success
A new study argues that the greatest defining feature of our species is not ‘symbolism’ or dramatic cognitive change, but rather its unique ecological position…