science
Old drug may have new tricks for fighting cancer
In recent years, a powerful suite of drugs known as kinase inhibitors have been developed to treat cancer and other diseases. Primary targets of...
Meditation has limited role in making you a better person
For decades many people have claimed meditation can change how we behave towards others and make us more compassionate.
But now new research has suggested...
Quantum algorithm could help AI think faster
One of the ways that computers 'think' is by analysing relationships within large sets of data. An international team has shown that quantum computers...
When did flowers originate?
Flowering plants likely originated between 149 and 256 million years ago according to new UCL-led research.
The study, published today in New Phytologist by researchers from the...
Woodpeckers show signs of possible brain damage, but that might not...
With woodpeckers, the answer's in the question--true to their name, they peck wood. And when they do, they peck hard--with each peck, the bird...
Building miniature optical antennas using DNA as a guide
Research groups from University of Jyväskylä and Aalto University (Finland) together with researchers from California Institute of Technology (Caltech, USA) and Aarhus University (iNANO...
Cheetahs’ inner ear is one-of-a-kind, vital to high-speed hunting
The world's fastest land animal, the cheetah, is a successful hunter not only because it is quick, but also because it can hold an...
Natural telescope sets new magnification record
Extremely distant galaxies are usually too faint to be seen, even by the largest telescopes. But nature has a solution: gravitational lensing, predicted by...
It sounds like music to my … brain!
It may sound like sci-fy, but mind reading equipment are much closer to become a reality than most people can imagine. A new study...
Astrophysicists discover planets in extragalactic galaxies using microlensing
A University of Oklahoma astrophysics team has discovered for the first time a population of planets beyond the Milky Way galaxy. Using microlensing --...
Scientists discover ‘chiral phonons’ – atomic rotations in a 2-D semiconductor...
A research team from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found the first evidence that a shaking motion in...
