Anyone who reads even a little about science and technology will be familiar by now with the idea of genome sequencing. This process involves breaking an organisms DNA into fragments to study their c… [+5338 chars]
Emiliano Bruner, a paleoneurologist at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), has led a study published in the journal Intelligence on how attention evolved in the h… [+3016 chars]
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Newswise — Researchers at University College Cork (UCC) and the Swedish Museum of Natural History examined the end-Permian mass extinction (252 million years ago) that eliminated almost every species… [+2849 chars]
Adriana Ariza-Pardo at Bahía Balleneros, Deception Island. Adriana Ariza-Pardo Colombian geoscientist Adriana Ariza-Pardo is delving into the origins of a sunken, active volcano that also serves a… [+4003 chars]
image: (a) Schematics of the experiment. By irradiating a plastic target with the Gekko XII laser, plasma flow is generated in the presence of a weak magnetic field. The weak magnetic field is distor… [+4429 chars]
Composite image of the Suns surface on 6/21/22. AR3038 can be seen in the upper right. Credit: NOAAs Space Weather Forecast Office Sunspots are usually not a cause for concern, even if they double i… [+3077 chars]
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US military's X-37B robotic space plane is set to create a new record of staying aloft for 780 days. The reusable spaceplane has currently completed 773 days. According to the US Air Force, it is a p… [+1468 chars]
WASHINGTON, June 30, 2022 – An optical fiber as thin as a strand of hair holds promise for use in minimally invasive deep-tissue studies of patients' brains that show the effects Alzheimer's disease … [+3233 chars]
What do bananas and cavoodles have in common? They're both lovely, yellowy and have been produced by genetic manipulation. If we went back in time a few hundred years, bananas and cavoodles would lo… [+4015 chars]
International research led by Dr. Tom Van der Stocken of the VUB Biology Department examined 21st century changes in ocean-surface temperature, salinity, and density, across mangrove forests worldwid… [+3739 chars]