‘Fresh’ lunar craters discovered
Using data from the LAMP instrument aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a Southwest Research Institute-led team of scientists discovered two geologically young craters --...
Jupiter blasted by 6.5 fireball impacts per year on average
March 17th fireball captured by Gerrit Kernbauer and John McKeon. Image processed by Sebastian Voltmer.
Credit: G. Kernbauer, J. McKeon, S. Voltmer
Jupiter is hit by...
Strange sea-dwelling reptile fossil hints at rapid evolution after mass extinction
This is Sclerocormus parviceps, the newly described marine reptile. Credit: Copyright Da-yong Jiang
Two hundred and fifty million years ago, life on earth was in...
The protein that mysteriously assesses distances
A protein of the ISWI family (Imitation Switch, or nucleosome remodelling motors) is endowed with a special property: despite having no organ of sense...
Fighting cancer with the help of someone else’s immune cells
A human T-cell.Credit: NIH
A new step in cancer immunotherapy: researchers from the Netherlands Cancer Institute and University of Oslo/Oslo University Hospital show that even...
Sleep loss boosts hunger, unhealthy food choices
Skimping on sleep has long been associated with overeating, poor food choices and weight gain. Now a new study shows how sleep loss initiates...
Rich coral communities discovered in Palamós Submarine Canyon in the Northwestern Mediterranian Sea
These kind of corals create fragile and branched colonies, which boost marine biodiversity related to their relation to the life cycle of lots of...
How depression and antidepressant drugs work
Mutations in the GABA-A receptor cause a temporary imbalance between GABA signaling (yellow) and glutamate signaling (blue) in the brain. Homeostatic down regulation of glutamate signaling rebalances the system at a lower level and can lead to depression. Treatment with ketamine restores both GABA and glutamate levels to normal. Credit: Penn State
New research demonstrates the effectiveness of ketamine to treat depression in a mouse model of the disease...
Scientist identify first steps in muscle regeneration
Scientists from Monash University's Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute ARMI have found the first real evidence of how muscles may be triggered to regenerate or...
A beautiful instance of stellar ornamentation
In this image from ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), light from blazing blue stars energises the gas left over from the stars' recent formation....
‘Sunscreen’ gene may help protect against skin cancer
A new USC-led study identified a "sunscreen" gene that may help stave off skin cancer.
The researchers found that the "UV radiation Resistance Associated Gene"...
