How the Anatomical Structure of the Brain Impacts Its Functioning
By simultaneously analyzing 1.6 billion connections within the brain, researchers have discovered how the architecture of the brain shapes its functioning. The structure of the…
By simultaneously analyzing 1.6 billion connections within the brain, researchers have discovered how the architecture of the brain shapes its functioning. The structure of the…
Researchers have decoded the genome of the elephant shark, providing new insights into immunity and bone formation. An international team of researchers, including scientists of…
Two newly published studies improve scientists’ understanding of the conditions required for superconductivity and how it can be achieved at realistic temperatures. Even physics can…
By using swimming microengines, researchers from the Max Planck Institute have developed a new method for the active degradation of organic pollutants that is twelve…
New colorized images reveal geological structures on the surface of Vesta in unprecedented detail. Some beauty is revealed only at a second glance. When viewed…
New research challenges astronomers’ traditional views about stellar birthplaces, finding that giant molecular clouds are embedded in a kind of molecular fog, which permeates the…
Based on the results of a long-term data collection project, a new study shows how different species age, unveiling diversity of aging processes that no…
Using the distributed computing project Einstein@Home, international volunteers discover four cosmic lighthouses in data from NASA’s Fermi gamma-ray space telescope. The combination of globally distributed…
Using the Herschel Space Observatory and ALMA, researchers have discovered that the unusual disk around the star HD 21997 appears to contain both primordial gas…
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute have demonstrated that graphene meets an important condition for use in novel lasers for terahertz pulses with long wavelengths,…
Astronomers have detected the most distant gravitational lens yet, a lensing mass so distant that the light, after having been deflected, has traveled 9.4 billion…
Physicists at the Max Planck Institute have developed a new method that uses light to accelerate charged particles, leading the way for more compact particle…
A newly published study details how astronomers detected cold streams of primordial hydrogen, vestigial matter left over from the Big Bang, fueling a distant star-forming…
A team of researchers has developed a new method to speed up the stabilization of chaotic systems. When chaos threatens, speed is essential; for example,…
Sunrise observatory provides the first high-resolution images of the chromosphere in ultraviolet light. Three months after the flight of the balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise, scientists…
Using a Kinect camera and a projector, Flexpad transforms flexible materials into highly deformable and spatially aware handheld displays. Recently at the 2013 IFA International…
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute have discovered a microbe that is rejuvenated every time it reproduces. While aging remains an inevitable fact of life,…
Using ESO data, two groups of scientists have produced detailed three-dimensional images of the stars that form the inner regions of our Milky Way. Two…