Research gives optical switches the ‘contrast’ of electronic transistors
Current computer systems represent bits of information, the 1's and 0's of binary code, with electricity. Circuit elements, such as transistors, operate on these...
Most of last 11,000 years cooler than past decade in North America, Europe
University of Wyoming researchers led a climate study that determined recent temperatures across Europe and North America appear to have few, if any, precedent...
Dinosaur Age Meets the Space Age
A slab of sandstone discovered at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center contains at least 70 mammal and dinosaur tracks from more than 100 million...
‘Anxiety cells’ identified in the brain’s hippocampus
Do your palms sweat when you walk down a poorly lit street at night? That feeling may be traced to the firing of newly...
Glory from gloom
The Lupus 3 star forming region lies within the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion), only 600 light-years away from Earth. It is part of...
Study of brain pacemaker shows promise in slowing decline of Alzheimer’s
While most treatments for Alzheimer's disease focus on improving memory, researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center conducted a study aimed at...
A crystal method
From Mother Nature to our must-have devices, we're surrounded by crystals. Those courtesy of the former, such as ice and snow, can form spontaneously...
This is your brain – this is your brain outdoors
The brain acts much differently when we're outdoors compared to when we're inside the lab, a new study has found.
"It happens when we're doing...
It’s not how you play the game, but how the dice were made
Whether at a casino playing craps or engaging with family in a simple board game at home, rolling the dice introduces a bit of...
Stellar embryos in nearby dwarf galaxy contain surprisingly complex organic molecules
The nearby dwarf galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a chemically primitive place.
Unlike the Milky Way, this semi-spiral collection of a...
Epigenetic alteration of a vitamin B12 gene shines new light on our understanding of...
Rare hereditary recessive diseases were thought to be expressed in off-spring only when both parents carry a mutation in the causal gene, but a...
