The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, used sensors small and sensitive enough to detect temperature changes inside individual cells, and found that as amyloid-beta misfolds and clumps to… [+4826 chars]
Researchers have taken inspiration from the world of plants to develop innovative and efficient nanoparticles that could be used to build the solar panels of the future. A team of engineers and biol… [+2538 chars]
On May 25, 2012, the International Space Station received one of the most important deliveries in its history. Weighing in at 525 kg, the cargo included food, water, clothing, and computer equipmen… [+6386 chars]
Last week, we witnessed the largest asteroid of the year 2022 make its way very near Earth and then fly past. The Earth is approached by an asteroid almost every other week. In fact, there are around… [+3221 chars]
In order to solidify humanity's long-term presence on Mars, humans would have to fuse with robots, an astronomer thinks. Lord Martin Rees, a British cosmologist, and the fifteenth Astronomer Royal re… [+2108 chars]
A composite image of the R Aquarii binary star captured by NASA's flying telescope SOFIA. (Image credit: NASA) NASA's flying telescope SOFIA has been watching a dance between two stars orbiting each… [+3608 chars]
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been in space for about six months, which is just a fraction of the time NASA spent designing and building it. All that effort is about to pay off, though. W… [+2659 chars]
Newswise — A new study by City, University of London and others suggests that the European cuttlefish (sepia officinalis) may combine, as necessary, two distinct neural systems that process specific … [+3621 chars]
Topological insulators, whose bulky states are prohibited while surface/edge states are conductive and topologically protected. Recent advances in topologically protected edge states have drawn growi… [+2879 chars]
Many disease-causing bacteria are able to inhibit the defense mechanisms in plants and thus escape dissolution by the plant cell, a process known as xenophagy. Animal and human cells have a similar m… [+3470 chars]
The Sun is a great starting point for modeling the many physical processes in stellar interiors. However, the results of helioseismology, which provide information on the nature of the Sun’s interior… [+3088 chars]
<li>Harvey, P. H. & Pagel, M. D. The comparative method in evolutionary biology. Vol. 239 (Oxford University Press, 1991). </li><li>Oyston, J. W., Hughes, M., Wagner, P. J., Gerber, S. & Wil… [+18985 chars]