Brain Pacemaker Implanted to Treat Alzheimer’s
In November, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine implanted a pacemaker-like device into the brain of a patient in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. This…
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European Catfish Learn to Catch Pigeons
A group of European catfish in Southwestern France has learned to catch pigeons, as they get close to the River Tarn. European catfish (Silurus glanis)…
WISE Spots Massive Distant Galaxy Cluster
Using NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), astronomers discovered a distant galaxy cluster, MOO J2342.0+1301, which is located 7.7 billion light-years away and is hundreds…
Genetic Trickery Coaxes Heart to Heal Itself
Two new studies suggest that heart muscle cells can make copies of themselves at a very low rate, but researchers have developed a genetic trick…
GRAIL Generates High Resolution Gravity Field Map of the Moon
New data from NASA’s Ebb and Flow probes was used to generate a high-resolution gravity field map of the moon, showing that the moon’s gravity…
5-Mile Wide Buried Asteroid Crater Discovered in Canada
A 5-mile (8-kilometer) wide and 3,000-foot (900-meter) deep asteroid impact crater has been hidden near Bow City, Alberta, for millions of years. Bow City has…
Vega Older Than Previously Thought, Could Harbor Life
Vega is situated in the constellation Lyra, 25 light-years away from Earth, and it is the fifth brightest star in the sky. In 1983, astronomers…
Kitti’s Hog-Nosed Bat Is World’s Smallest Mammal
The Kitti’s hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai), sometimes referred to as the bumblebee bat due to its diminutive size, was discovered in 1970s and could arguably…
New Finding Challenges Theories of How Rocky, Earth-Scale Planets Form
While viewing the young brown dwarf ISO-Oph 102, an international team of astronomers pinpointed carbon monoxide gas around the brown dwarf and found that the…
Hubble Views Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxy NGC 5253
A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows irregular galaxy NGC 5253, a Blue Compact Dwarf galaxy located at a distance of about 12…
Telomerase Gene Therapy Extends Mouse Lifespan by 24%
Inducing cells to express telomerase, the enzyme which is supposed to slow down the metabolic clock, has enabled researchers boost the lifespan of mouse by…
Prolific Changes in the Human Genome in the Past 5,000 Years
Human populations have grown exponentially in the past 5,000 years, and new genetic mutations arise in each new generation. Humans have a vast abundance of…
Hubble and VLA View Elliptical Galaxy Hercules A
The Hubble Space Telescope and the Very Large Array radio telescope combine to create this image of elliptical galaxy Hercules A, also known as 3C…
Scientists Discover the Most Powerful Quasar Outflow Ever
Scientists have discovered a quasar that is at least five times more powerful than any that has been observed to date. Data reveals that a…
Synthesizing a Flu Vaccine Without the Virus
A new vaccine strategy, which uses synthetic messenger RNA (mRNA) instead of proteins purified from viruses, could make flu shots cheaper, safer, and easier to…
Large Hadron Collider Collisions May Have Yielded a New Type of Matter
A team of scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider found that in a sample of 2 million lead-proton collisions, some pairs of particles flew…
Exploding Star Could Shed New Light on the Nature of Dark Energy
An international team of scientists has conclusively demonstrated a connection between white dwarf stars that fail to completely detonate and a class of oddly dim…
At Least a Third of All Marine Species Are Still Unknown
The most comprehensive assessment of ocean life has revealed that one-third to two-thirds of all species are still unknown to science. The scientists published their…