Genetic Clues to Van Gogh’s Teddy Bear Sunflower Florets Uncovered
The famous Dutch impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh was obsessed with sunflowers, until he died in 1890. His iconic paintings of sunflowers fetch millions of…
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Bringing Microfluidics to the Marketplace
Medical technology is moving fast and microfluidics may provide answers to health conditions as easy as a placing a drop of blood on a plastic…
Quantum Interference Shown Experimentally in Larger Molecules
Particle-wave duality is one of the most mysterious facets of quantum physics. It states that every quantum object has properties of both a wave and…
Rise in Allergies Linked to Widespread Antibiotic Use to Combat Bacteria
It seems that allergic diseases have reached an almost pandemic level. That’s what a new study states in the journal Nature Medicine. Allergies are caused…
Black Band Disease Puts Great Barrier Reef at Risk
The Great Barrier Reef is under attack by a disease and new data shows that the Black Band Disease can migrate at a rate fast…
Gold Nanorods Shaped as Starfruit Deliver Impressive Results
Starfruit is lending its shape to newly synthesized gold nanorods, whose particles have been found to return signals 25 times stronger than similar nanorods with…
NASA Makes Earth’s Oceans Look like Van Gogh’s Starry Night
This incredible visualization of the Earth and its oceans was created by the Scientific Visualization Studio at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. It’s called Perpetual…
Reactivation of the Hippocampus Causes Memory Recall
Lost memories may be a thing of the past as neuroscientists conduct research on mice to test memory recall. By using optogenetics and stimulating the…
Poisonous Dendrobatidae Frogs are Aposematic Organisms and Critically Endangered
These colorful photos of two species of Dendrobatidae, from the Reptile House at the London Zoo, feature these critically endangered amphibians in all of their…
Dawn Images Shine New Light on Vesta
New images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft have revealed previously unknown geological features about the asteroid Vesta. While Vesta is one of the brightest objects in…
Looking Back to Move Thermoelectric Materials Forward
In search of better thermoelectric materials, a team of physicists turned to a material NASA engineers first used roughly 40 years ago for spacecraft design,…
Titanoboa, a Paleogene Period 40-Foot Long Snake
A new fossil of an extraordinarily large snake was discovered in the lowland tropics of northern Colombia, 60 miles (96 kilometers) from the Caribbean coast…
Noise Affects More Than Just Your Ears
It has long been known that noise affects animal behavior, just look at our personal reactions and behaviors when stuck in a noisy city. But…
CFP mTurquoise2 Shines Bright
By first uncovering how CFPs store incoming energy and retransmit it as fluorescent light, scientists were able to understand the function of individual atoms within…
Simulating Quantum Walks in Two Dimensions
A team of physicists is the first to successfully realize a quantum walk in two dimensions and believe by simulating these quantum walks, physicists could…
ICARUS Experiment Claims Neutrinos Aren’t Faster Than Light
A new Italian experiment indicates that neutrinos stay within the speed of light. The findings were posted on arXiv.org as a preprint, and contradict rival…
General Anesthesia May Increase the Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease
A study published in Annals of Neurology suggests that undergoing surgery and general anesthesia may increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. The study found that…
Making Graphene-Based Supercapacitors With DVD Discs
By coating a DVD disc with a film of graphite oxide that is then laser treated inside a LightScribe DVD drive to produce graphene electrodes,…