A new analysis by researchers at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) has found that inactive yeast could be effective as an inexpensive, abundant, and simple material for removing lead contaminatio… [+5890 chars]
Palo Alto, CA— New work led by Carnegie’s Zhiyong Wang untangles a complex cellular signaling process that’s underpins plants’ ability to balance expending energy on growth and defending themselves f… [+4516 chars]
Credit: Ola Jakup Joensen, Niels Bohr Institute Benjamin Mottelson was a US-born physicist who specialized in theoretical work on the structure of the atomic nucleus. During the 1950s, in close coll… [+6020 chars]
The Functional Cancer Genomics group led by Dr. Sakari Vanharanta at the Translational Cancer Medicine Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland, invites applications for the posi… [+3963 chars]
NASA's Voyager 1 team is trying to work out why the spacecraft appears to be confused about its location in space, but the mission's distance from Earth makes solving the issue challenging. The Voya… [+2502 chars]
<li>Planck Collaboration et al. Planck 2018 results. VI. Cosmological parameters. Astron. Astrophys.641, A6 (2020). </li><li>Rees, M. J. & Ostriker, J. P. Cooling, dynamics and fragmentation of … [+59396 chars]
A systems perspective frames the next frontier in plant sciences. Moreover, network science aids in translating the complexity of a system into a biological message and enables us to discover novel f… [+855 chars]
Banner image: A penguin navigates sea ice in Antarctica. (Credit: John Weller) A new report from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) reveals how climate change is significantly imp… [+3668 chars]
Two giant galaxy clusters crashing into each other triggered enormous shock waves stretching 1.6 million light-years through space. The findings, revealed by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory , are … [+4834 chars]
The crater is in Aonia Terra, an upland region in the southern highlands of Mars. (ESA) A crater that looks like a huge, unblinking eye has been photographed on the surface of Mars. The stunning im… [+3604 chars]
Every day, chemical factories produce a wide range of products that will be extremely difficult to do without in a modern society; everything from medicines like insulin and antibiotics to fertilizer… [+3434 chars]
As you're reading this sentence, the cells in your brain, called neurons, are sending rapid-fire electrical signals between each other, transmitting information. They're doing so via tiny, specialize… [+2792 chars]
