Scientists evade the Heisenberg uncertainty principle
This is Ferran Martin Ciurana and Dr. Giorgio Colangelo working on the experimental setup.
Credit: ICFO
State-of-the-art sensors, such as MRIs and atomic clocks, are capable...
Light used to remotely control curvature of plastics
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a technique that uses light to get flat, plastic sheets to curve into shapes such as...
First mutations in human life discovered
Artist's depiction of four-cell embryo (stock illustration).
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The earliest mutations of human life have been observed by researchers at the Wellcome...
Surprising new role for lungs: Making blood
Release of platelets in the lung vasculature.
Credit: Image courtesy of University of California - San Francisco
Using video microscopy in the living mouse lung, UC...
Wild chimpanzees have surprisingly long life spans
A member of the Ngogo community of chimpanzees in Uganda's Kibale National Park. A new study shows that the Ngogo chimps have surprisingly long...
Numerosity in humans, birds and fish based in brain’s subcortex
A new paper reports where in the brain numerical quantity evaluation is processed.
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Cognitive neuroscience researcher Joonkoo Park at the University...
How the brain sees the world in 3-D
This is researcher Nonie Finlayson about to enter the fMRI scanner.
Credit: Ohio State University
We live in a three-dimensional world, but everything we see is...
When helium behaves like a black hole
Scientists have discovered that a sphere of cold helium atoms (in green) -- interacting with a surrounding larger container of the same kind of...
Satnavs ‘switch off’ parts of the brain
This map shows the 'degree centrality' of all the streets in central London. This reflects how many other streets are connected to each street,...
First patient cured of rare blood disorder
David Levy, shown here with his sister, is the first adult patient cured of CDA.
Credit: David Levy
Using a technique that avoids the use of...
‘Tree-on-a-chip’ passively pumps water for days
Engineers have designed a microfluidic device they call a "tree-on-a-chip," which mimics the pumping mechanism of trees and plants. (stock photo)
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