A New Complete, High-Resolution 3D Map of the Mouse Brain [Video]
The reference atlas, years in the making, offers common ground to put neuroscience findings in context. After three years of intensive data-gathering and careful drawing,…
The reference atlas, years in the making, offers common ground to put neuroscience findings in context. After three years of intensive data-gathering and careful drawing,…
A prototype design of a plasma jet thruster can generate thrusting pressures on the same magnitude a commercial jet engine can, using only air and…
Work is ongoing to refine images NASA’s Galileo spacecraft captured of Europa as scientists prepare for exploration of Jupiter’s icy moon. The surface of Jupiter’s…
International team sketches first large-scale genomic portrait of pre-Columbian Andean civilizations. At a glance: Analysis yields the first comprehensive genomic profile of ancient populations in…
Turns out, you really can’t believe everything you see in the movies. A new University of Wisconsin Oshkosh analysis of raptor teeth published in the…
Overseas exploration and trade during the Age of Discovery (15th-17th centuries) were possible by sail technology, and deep-space exploration will require the same for the…
An anesthesia team in Israel has become one of the first to use 3D printing and virtual reality to produce an exact model of the…
A team of materials scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) – scientists who normally spend their time researching things like high-performance materials for…
The lightness of water vapor buffers climate warming in the tropics. Conventional knowledge has it that warm air rises while cold air sinks. But a…
For most of the 20th century, astronomers have scoured the skies for supernovae—the explosive deaths of massive stars—and their remnants in search of clues about…
Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest known example of a squid-like creature attacking its prey, in a fossil dating back almost 200 million years. The…
When searching for extraterrestrial life, astronomers may want to look at planets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres. As new and more powerful telescopes blink on in the…
Invisible object has two companion stars visible to the naked eye. A team of astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and other institutes has…
Infection researchers from the German Primate Center identify starting points for vaccine development and therapy. The SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infects lung cells and is…
In an analysis of randomized controlled trials, individuals who consumed green tea experienced a significant decline in body weight and body mass index. On the…
The next generation of powerful Earth- and space-based telescopes will be able to hunt distant solar systems for evidence of life on Earth-like exoplanets —…
Strange spots scattered across the Moon’s nearside where bedrock is conspicuously exposed are evidence of seismic activity set in motion 4.3 billion years ago that…
Researchers have discovered an ancient plant species whose reproductive biology captures the evolution from one to two spore sizes – an essential transition to the…