science
Surprise: A virus-like protein is important for cognition and memory
A protein involved in cognition and storing long-term memories looks and acts like a protein from viruses. The protein, called Arc, has properties similar...
With these special bacteria, a broccoli a day can keep the...
Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world, especially the developed world. Although the 5-year survival rates for earlier stages...
Making the Internet of Things possible with a new breed of...
The internet of things is coming, that much we know. But still it won't; not until we have components and chips that can handle...
3-D printing creates super soft structures that replicate brain and lungs
A new 3D printing technique allows researchers to replicate biological structures, which could be used for tissue regeneration and replica organs.
Imperial College London researchers...
The ecological costs of war: Conflict a consistent killer of African...
When Joshua Daskin traveled to Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park in 2012, the park and the iconic large animals that roamed it were returning from...
In ‘pond scum,’ scientists find answers to one of evolution’s which-came-first...
Visiting a colleague in Germany in 2012, Boston College Research Professor Paul K. Strother was examining soil samples for pollen, spores, pieces of plants...
Heart-muscle patches made with human cells improve heart attack recovery
Large, human cardiac-muscle patches created in the lab have been tested, for the first time, on large animals in a heart attack model. This...
Ingredients for life revealed in meteorites that fell to Earth
Two wayward space rocks, which separately crashed to Earth in 1998 after circulating in our solar system's asteroid belt for billions of years, share...
Astronomers detect ‘whirlpool’ movement in earliest galaxies
Astronomers have looked back to a time soon after the Big Bang, and have discovered swirling gas in some of the earliest galaxies to...
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...
A repeating fast radio burst from an extreme environment
New detections of radio waves from a repeating fast radio burst have revealed an astonishingly potent magnetic field in the source's environment, indicating that...
