The farthest galaxy appears as a diminutive blob that is only a tiny fraction of the size of our Milky Way galaxy. But it offers a peek back into a time when…
For the first time, therapeutically relevant CPCs can be derived from induced-pluripotent stem cells (iPS) cells. CPCs, which are typically only found in fetal…
Designated Kappa Andromedae b (Kappa And b, for short), the new object has a mass about 12.8 times greater than Jupiter’s. This places it teetering on the…
Most of the thousands of exploding stars classified as type Ia supernovae look similar, which is why astrophysicists use them as accurate cosmic distance…
Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Lunar Planetary Institute, and Carnegie Institute of Washington report on…
According to a team of Penn State entomologists, biopesticides — naturally occurring microorganisms — might provide an answer to this pest problem. Bed bugs…
The work of relief forces, however, is impeded not only by language barriers and unfavorable weather conditions, but also by the lack of standards, equipment…
By Christina Benjaminsen and Åse DraglandOn a light June night in 1989 the Russian cruise ship Maxim Gorkiy glides peacefully along the coast of Svalbard….
By using common materials found pretty much anywhere there is dirt, a team of Michigan State University researchers have developed a new thermoelectric…
The study, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Department of…
The team looked at geographical patterns of atmospheric temperature change over the period of satellite observations. The team’s goal of the study was to…
In a cover article published in Green Chemistry, the research team describes a process that ultimately transforms the lignin byproduct into a thermoplastic – a…
That’s because the interiors of any terrestrial planets in these systems are likely warmer than Earth—up to 25 percent warmer, which would make them more…
“We’ve developed high performance molecular simulation tools and a graphical user interface for researchers to study the conformation—the three-dimensional…
No man is an island, entire of itself, said poet John Donne. And no atom neither. Even in the middle of intergalactic space, atoms feel the electromagnetic…
The report is based on in-depth analyses, interviews and group discussions with IT experts and officers representing the police forces of thirteen European…
The report published December 4 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE powerfully supports a role for the immune function in autism by integrating analysis of…
The challenge was the observation of effect occurred during the transit of Venus across the Sun on June 6th, dubbed “Rossiter-McLaughlin effect”. This is a…
The new coronavirus, called hCoV-EMC, is blamed for five deaths and several other cases of severe disease originating in countries in the Middle East….
Over past decades, many areas of the forested Amazon basin have become a patchwork of farms, pastures and second-growth forest as people have moved in and…