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‘Pandora’s Cluster’ Seen by Spitzer
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
This image of galaxy cluster Abell 2744, also called Pandora's Cluster, was taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope. The gravity of this galaxy...
Optical fiber transmits one terabit per second
TUM researchers (l-r) Fabian Steiner, Georg Böcherer, and Patrick Schulte with the statue of Claude Shannon, father of information theory.Credit: Denise Panyik-Dale/Alcatel-Lucent
Nokia Bell Labs,...
Dementia: Catching the memory thief
It's over a hundred years since the first case of Alzheimer's disease was diagnosed. Since then we've learned a great deal about the protein...
New insight into eye diseases
This image shows how transferred genes activate the stem cell properties of normally dormant retinal cells.Credit: Image courtesy of Yale University
Many diseases that lead...
Key to manufacturing more efficient solar cells
Credit: © petroleumjelliffe / Flickr
In a discovery that could have profound implications for future energy policy, Columbia scientists have demonstrated it is possible to...
Epigenetic clock predicts life expectancy
UCLA geneticist Steve Horvath led a team of 65 scientists in seven countries to record age-related changes to human DNA, calculate biological age and...
Some brains are blind to moving objects
As many as half of people are blind to motion in some part of their field of vision, but the deficit doesn’t have anything...
Brain’s biological clock stimulates thirst before sleep
The brain's biological clock stimulates thirst in the hours before sleep, according to a study published in the journal Nature by McGill University researchers.
The...
Breastfeeding saves mothers’ lives, too
The new study provides the first comprehensive picture of the health and economic benefits of breastfeeding. Credit:Flickr/desireefawn
Breastfeeding as recommended -- for a total of...
Researchers find explanation for interacting giant, hidden ocean waves
Ocean engineers from MIT, the University of Minnesota at Duluth, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have accurately simulated the motion of internal tides...
Fungus makes mosquitoes much more likely to become infected with malaria
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have identified a fungus that compromises the immune system of mosquitoes, making them more...
