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Hubble Takes Flight with the Toucan and the Cluster
NGC 299 is an open star cluster located within the Small Magellanic Cloud just under 200,000 light-years away. Open clusters such as this are...
Detour via gravitational lens makes distant galaxy visible
Photons are emitted from a galaxy QSO B0218+357 in the direction of the Earth. Due to the gravitational effect of the intervening galaxy B0218+357G...
Tsunami of stars and gas produces dazzling eye-shaped feature in galaxy
Dazzling eyelid-like features bursting with stars in galaxy IC 2163 formed from a tsunami of stars and gas triggered by a glancing collision with...
Insulin resistance reversed by removal of protein
By removing the protein galectin-3 (Gal3), a team of investigators led by University of California School of Medicine researchers were able to reverse diabetic...
Light drives single-molecule nanoroadsters
A scanning tunneling microscope image shows two three-wheeled nanoroadsters created at Rice University and tested at the University of Graz. The light-activated roadsters, next...
Herbivorous mammals have bigger bellies
3-D animations of animals from the early ages until today. Credit: UZH
As an international study conducted by the University of Zurich based on 3-D...
Scientists find key protein for spinal cord repair
Adult zebrafish can regenerate their spinal cords after an injury. Supporting glial cells (shown in red) are first to bridge the gap between the...
Physicists demonstrate existence of new subatomic structure
James Vary, right, and coauthor Andrey Shirokov with an illustration of a tetraneutron. Credit: Christopher Gannon/Iowa State University
Studying the tetraneutron, once thought unlikely to...
Researchers have also found that exercise may also help prevent age-related hearing loss
Image Credit: Flickr/scheda28
Listen up: Everybody has heard that exercise can help keep you slim and is good for heart health, but University of Florida...
Reducing exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) lowers levels of this environmental estrogen in women
Women who avoided foods, cosmetics, and other products packaged in BPA-containing plastic containers for 3 weeks had significant reductions in urinary levels of BPA,...
Controlling the properties of matter in two-dimensional crystals
An electron microscopy image of ordered atoms of tungsten (W) and molybdenum (Mo) against artistic representations of triangular single layer flakes of WxMo1–xS2 on...
