Sanford Simon, who conducted the research as head of The Rockefeller University's Laboratory of Cellular Biophysics, describes the culprit as a “chimeric…
A research team led by The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences took to the lab to recreate the magmatic melt that once formed the lunar…
A form of machine learning called deep learning is one of the key technologies behind recent advances in applications like real-time speech recognition and…
Columbia University biologists have revealed a mechanism by which bacterial cells in crowded, oxygen-deprived environments access oxygen for energy production,…
In the past, physicians observed these blood vessel-like structures in the clinic–a phenomenon called vascular mimicry, which is associated with some of the…
University of Delaware professor Patrick Gaffney and alumnus Keith Bayha, a research associate with the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, have…
Extremely lightweight, electrically highly conductive, and more stable than steel: due to their unique properties, carbon nanotubes would be ideal for numerous…
Communication is often mired in contradiction – also in the brain. Neuroscientists at IST Austria were now able to resolve one such contradiction.
The Collaborative Research Centre CRC 1214 at the University of Konstanz has developed a method for synthesising Europium (II) oxide nanoparticles – a…
Every 30 seconds someone in the world dies of lung cancer. Lung cancer metastases that can develop after a primary tumour are particularly unpredictable and…
It is being funded by the European Research Council with a so-called Proof of Concept Grant. It aims at putting the results of fundamental research into…
“Leaves up at the top of the canopy are really greedy–they absorb a lot of light and don't let much down to their brothers and sisters below them,” said…
The historic chamber's massive door opening brings to a close about 100 days of testing for Webb, a significant milestone in the telescope's journey to the…
The journal Nature is publishing the work by chemists at Emory University, following on their development of a similar catalyst last year. Both of the…
Dark features previously proposed as evidence for significant liquid water flowing on Mars have now been identified as granular flows, where sand and dust move…
During differentiation of pluripotent stem cells to cardiomyocytes, the three-dimensional folding of the DNA reorganizes itself. This reorganization of the DNA…