Synaptic connectivity motifs contribute to memory storage and retrieval in hippocampus
This is a reconstruction of a pair of synaptically connected CA3 pyramidal neurons. Inset shows a light-micrograph of the single synaptic contact that forms...
Dances with waves: Breakthrough in moving small objects using acoustics
Researchers move multiple objects simultaneously on a metal plate by playing a carefully chosen melody.Credit: Quan Zhou / Aalto University
Researchers of Aalto University have...
Hippo teeth reveal environmental change
Kendra Chritz sampling hippo enamel by kerosene lamplight in Uganda.Credit: Courtesy of Kendra Chritz
Loss of megaherbivores such as elephants and hippos can allow woody...
Hubble peers into the Large Magellanic Cloud
This shot from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a maelstrom of glowing gas and dark dust within one of the Milky Way's satellite...
Discovery nearly doubles known quasars from the ancient universe
An artist’s rendering of a very distant quasar courtesy of ESO/M. Kornmesser.
Quasars are supermassive black holes that sit at the center of enormous...
A Riddle for Our Time
A schematic of cosmic history. Astronomers have called attention to a neglected riddle of the expansion: although the outward flaring seen in the graphic...
Study reveals how ionising radiation damages DNA and causes cancer
For the first time, researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their collaborators have been able to identify in human cancers two characteristic...
Genome of the world’s largest bony fish may explain fast growth rate and large...
The genome of the ocean sunfish (Mola mola), the world's largest bony fish, has been sequenced for the first time by researchers from China...
All the Water on Planet Earth
How much of planet Earth is made of water? Very little, actually. Although oceans of water cover about 70 percent of Earth's surface, these...
Midlife physical activity is associated with better cognition in old age
A new study of 3050 twins finds moderately vigorous physical activity -- i.e., more strenuous than walking -- to be associated with better cognition...
Three in four don’t know obesity causes cancer
Three out of four (75 per cent) people in the UK are unaware of the link between obesity and cancer, according to a new...
