Unlocking big genetic datasets: Researchers apply machine learning tools to infer ancestry mix of...
On simulated data sets of 10,000 individuals, TeraStructure could estimate population structure more accurately and twice as fast as current state-of-the art algorithms, the...
Physicists present the most accurate time measurements of quantum jumps to date
A laser pulse hits a helium atom. One of the electron is ripped out of the atom, the other electron may change its quantum...
Pollution emitted near equator has biggest impact on global ozone
Image Credit: Flickr/shinobu sugiyama
Where the world emits is more important than how much it emits, suggesting that the southward shift of emissions toward the...
Buildup of ‘toxic fat’ metabolite could increase diabetes risk
Image Credit: Flickr/practicalcures
For years, scientists have known that someone who is thin could still end up with diabetes. Yet an obese person may be...
Mars’ ionosphere shaped by crustal magnetic fields
Mars as viewed by the Visual Monitoring Camera on Mars Express. Credit: ESA/D. O'Donnell - CC BY-SA IGO
Scattered pockets of magnetism across the surface...
NGC 6818 in the constellation of Sagittarius
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA; acknowledgement: J. Schmidt (geckzilla.com)
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope had imaged NGC 6818 before, but it took another look at this...
A new threat to bees worldwide
A recent study published in the Nature journal Scientific Reports highlights a newly identified virus -- named Moku after the Hawaiian Island from which...
Supercomputer comes up with a profile of dark matter
Simulated distribution of dark matter approximately three billion years after the Big Bang (illustration not from this work).Credit: Copyright The Virgo Consortium/Alexandre Amblard/ESA
In the...
Debunking the myth of password security
Image Credit: Flickr/Christiaan Colen
When U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton was found to have used a private email server for government business as Secretary of...
Laser particles could provide sharper images of tissues
“…f a fluorescence microscope’s resolution is set at 2 micrometers, our technique can have 300 nanometer resolution — about a sixfold improvement over regular...
My contribution to Arctic sea ice melt
Participants in a sea ice measurement campaign including the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, are taking samples of the Arctic sea ice at Spitzbergen....
