A simple cell holds 42 million protein molecules
It's official--there are some 42 million protein molecules in a simple cell, revealed a team of researchers led by Grant Brown, a biochemistry professor...
Pulsating dissolution found in crystals
When German researchers zoomed in to the nanometer scale on time-lapse images of dissolving crystals, they found a surprise: Dissolution happened in pulses, marked...
Alzheimer’s disease: Neuronal loss very limited
Frequently encountered in the elderly, Alzheimer's is considered a neurodegenerative disease, which means that it is accompanied by a significant, progressive loss of neurons...
Odd behavior of star reveals lonely black hole hiding in giant star cluster
Astronomers using ESO's MUSE instrument on the Very Large Telescope in Chile have discovered a star in the cluster NGC 3201 that is behaving...
Baby brains help infants figure it out before they try it out
Babies often amaze their parents when they seemingly learn new skills overnight -- how to walk, for example. But their brains were probably prepping...
Weather anomalies accelerate the melting of sea ice
In the winter of 2015/16, something happened that had never before been seen on this scale: at the end of December, temperatures rose above...
Ancient DNA results end 4,000-year-old Egyptian mummy mystery
Using 'next generation' DNA sequencing scientists have found that the famous 'Two Brothers' mummies of the Manchester Museum have different fathers so are, in...
Rates of great earthquakes not affected by moon phases, day of year
There is an enduring myth that large earthquakes tend to happen during certain phases of the Moon or at certain times during the year....
Named after Stanley Kubrick, a new species of frog is a ‘clockwork orange’ of...
Two new treefrog species were discovered in the Amazon Basin of Bolivia, Peru, and Brazil. Both had been previously misidentified as another superficially identical...
Hubble weighs in on mass of 3 million billion suns
In 2014, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope found that this enormous galaxy cluster contains the mass of a staggering three million billion...
Miles Davis is not Mozart: The brains of jazz and classical pianists work differently
Keith Jarret, world-famous jazz pianist, once answered in an interview when asked if he would ever be interested in doing a concert where he...
