Jellyfish, with no brains, still seem to sleep
Jellyfish sitting on the floor of their tank.
Credit: Caltech
At first glance, humans seem to have very little in common with Cassiopea, a primitive...
Scientists map memorable tunes in the rat brain, learn about how brain remembers everyday...
Tuning into memories. Scientists mapped and read sound memories in rat brains.
Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Zador, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, N.Y.
Lights, sound, action:...
New technique produces tunable, nanoporous materials
Left and center: Magnetite- and gold-based nanoparticles self-assemble into lattice-like structures. Right: Individual gold and magnetite based nanoparticles.
Credit: Petr Kral
A collaborative group of...
Water buffalo genome unveiled
This is "Olimpia da Farfengo" the female Mediterranean water buffalo that researchers sequenced.
Credit: Caterina Cambuli
An international team of researchers led by the University...
Heavy metal thunder: Protein can be switched on to conduct electricity like a metal
Lindsay explored the interactions between a protein, called an integrin (alphaVbeta3), and its target, called a ligand (RGDfC). Lindsay's team was able to manufacture...
Advanced artificial limbs mapped in the brain
This is an amputee fitted with an advanced arm prosthetic following TMSR surgery.
Credit: Irit Hacmun, Tel Aviv
Targeted motor and sensory reinnervation (TMSR) is...
Film research study shows how the brain reacts to difficult moral issues
Brain activity for the two tasks of a) deciding to rescue the own sister, a friend, or strangers from a dangerous country in red...
Nanomagnets levitate thanks to quantum physics
Cosimo Rusconi (l.) and Oriol Romero-Isart (r.) play with a levitron to illustrate their work on nano magnets.
Credit: IQOQI Innsbruck/M.R.Knabl
Already in 1842, British...
Oldest recorded solar eclipse helps date the Egyptian pharaohs
Total solar eclipse corona.
Credit: © Kenneth Keifer / Fotolia
Researchers have pinpointed the date of what could be the oldest solar eclipse yet recorded....
Arabian sea humpback whales isolated for 70,000 years
A whale named 'Spitfire' swims in the waters off the island of Hallaniyah in southern Oman. Scientists from WCS, AMNH, and the Environment Society...
How bacteria hinder chemotherapy
Bacteria (green) inside human pancreatic cancer cells (AsPC-1 cells). The cells' nuclei are stained blue while their cytoplasm is stained orange.
Credit: Weizmann Institute of...