First-ever successful mind-controlled robotic arm without brain implants
A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with the University of Minnesota, has made a breakthrough in the field of noninvasive...
Scientists map huge undersea fresh-water aquifer off U.S. Northeast
In a new survey of the sub-seafloor off the U.S. Northeast coast, scientists have made a surprising discovery: a gigantic aquifer of relatively fresh...
Animals’ brain activity ‘syncs’ during social interactions
Two papers publishing June 20 in the journal Cellshow that Egyptian fruit bats and mice, respectively, can "sync" brainwaves in social situations. The synchronization of...
Electron-behaving nanoparticles rock current understanding of matter
It's not an electron. But it sure does act like one.
Northwestern University researchers have made a strange and startling discovery that nanoparticles engineered with...
The solution to antibiotic resistance could be in your kitchen sponge
Researchers from the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) have discovered bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, living in their kitchen sponges. As the threat...
U.S. beekeepers lost over 40 percent of colonies last year, highest winter losses ever...
Beekeepers across the United States lost 40.7% of their honey bee colonies from April 2018 to April 2019, according to preliminary results of the...
Fresh look at mysterious Nasca lines in Peru
A scientific approach has been used to re-identify huge birds etched into the desert plains of southern Peru around 2,000 years ago. The birds...
Astronomers make first detection of polarized radio waves in Gamma Ray Burst jets
Good fortune and cutting-edge scientific equipment have allowed scientists to observe a Gamma Ray Burst jet with a radio telescope and detect the polarisation...
Reaching and grasping: Learning fine motor coordination changes the brain
When we train the reaching for and grasping of objects, we also train our brain. In other words, this action brings about changes in...
Astronomers see ‘warm’ glow of Uranus’s rings
The rings of Uranus are invisible to all but the largest telescopes -- they weren't even discovered until 1977 -- but they're surprisingly bright...
Gut microbes eat our medication
The first time Vayu Maini Rekdal manipulated microbes, he made a decent sourdough bread. At the time, young Maini Rekdal, and most people who...
