Ancient stardust sheds light on the first stars
Credit: University College London
A huge mass of glowing stardust in a galaxy seen shortly after the Universe's formation has been detected by a UCL-led...
Snake bite? Chemists figure out how to easily and cheaply halt venom’s spread
UCI chemistry professor Ken Shea (right) and doctoral student Jeffrey O'Brien have developed a broad-spectrum snake venom antidote.Credit: Steve Zylius / UCI
Chemists at the...
Discovery rewriting the evolutionary history of the nervous system
A whole Drosophila larva expressing a fluorescent protein (red) in a subset of its sensory neurons. The inset shows one set of these neurons...
How exercise—interval training in particular—helps your mitochondria stave off old age
This video abstract depicts the findings of Robinson et al., who assessed the effects of three different exercise modalities on skeletal muscle adaptations in...
Vision, not limbs, led fish onto land 385 million years ago
A side view of a 3-D model of Tiktaalik in a murky waterway in the Devonian, 385 million years ago, looking out above the...
Detailed chemical structure of P22 virus resolved
Complete capsid of bacteriophage P22 generated with validated atomic models that were derived from the high-resolution cryoEM density map. Credit: C.Hryc and the Chiu...
Diabetes drug may be effective against deadly form of breast cancer, study suggests
Compared to a control (left), epalrestat treatment (right) reduces the number of metastatic tumors (arrowheads) in the lungs of mice injected with human basal-like...
Caffeine boosts enzyme that could protect against dementia
Indiana University scientists have identified 24 compounds that increase the brain's production of the enzyme NMNAT2, which helps prevent the formation of these tangles...
Americans are having sex less often, new study shows
According to a new study, Americans who were married or living together had sex 16 fewer times per year in 2010-2014 compared to 2000-2004.Image...
Yellow cabs for safer rides
Researchers have found an explicit link between the colour of a taxi and its accident rate. Image Credit:Flickr/momotosaur
A recent study led by researchers...
When less is essential to keep the brain going
Fluorescence image of the abdominal segments in a ventral ganglion of Drosophila larva. The synaptic contacts and the cell nuclei are stained with Bruchpilot...
