Home 2017
Yearly Archives: 2017
A ‘carbon law’ offers pathway to halve emissions every decade
Solar panels.
Credit: © Ezume Images / Fotolia
On the eve of this year's Earth hour (25 March), researchers propose a solution in the journal Science...
People often use the word ‘you’ rather than ‘I’ to cope with negative experiences
"You win some, you lose some." Using the word "you" suggests it could happen to anyone.
Credit: © Jakub Jirsák / Fotolia
Researchers say it may...
Critical step in DNA repair, cellular aging pinpointed
The body's ability to repair DNA damage declines with age, which causes gradual cell demise, overall bodily degeneration and greater susceptibility to cancer.
Credit: ©...
Tiller the Hun? Farmers in Roman Empire converted to Hun lifestyle — and vice...
Example of a modified skull, a practice assumed to be Hunnic that may have been appropriated by local farmers within the bounds of the
Credit:...
Machine learning lets scientists reverse-engineer cellular control networks
The new family tree structure is shown.
Credit: University of Cambridge
The flow of information between cells in our bodies is exceedingly complex: sensing, signaling, and...
New study shakes the roots of the dinosaur family tree
The new family tree structure is shown.
Credit: University of Cambridge
More than a century of theory about the evolutionary history of dinosaurs has been turned...
Brain ‘rewires’ itself to enhance other senses in blind people
This is a photo of a participant in a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner used in this study.
Credit: Boston University Medical School Center for...
Sea ice extent sinks to record lows at both poles
Arctic sea ice hit a record low wintertime maximum extent in 2017. At 5.57 million square miles, it is the lowest maximum extent in...
Molecular ‘treasure maps’ to help discover new materials
These are crystals of one of the materials that was discovered using the new method, as seen by an electron microscope. This is a...
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...
