science
Adapters enable better communication between machines
Small connector, big effect: This plug-and-play adapter overcomes language barriers between machines and facilitates modifications of industrial facilities.
Credit: KIT
Plug and play is a technology...
USB connections make snooping easy
Researchers tested more than 50 different computers and external USB hubs and found that over 90% of them leaked information to an external USB...
Living on the edge: Stars found far from galaxy center
The newfound young star clusters lie thousands of light-years below the plane of our Milky Way galaxy, a flat spiral disk seen in this...
Growing pains in a cluster of protostars
Astronomers using ALMA have imaged the episodic outflow of a young protostar known as CARMA-7. The twin jets -- each nearly 1.5 trillion kilometers...
ALMA disentangles complex birth of giant stars
An artist's concept of the distribution of the ambient gas around IRAS 16547-4247. The central high-density gas cloud is thought to contain multiple high-density...
Supermassive black holes feed on cosmic jellyfish
Observations of 'Jellyfish galaxies' with ESO's Very Large Telescope have revealed a previously unknown way to fuel supermassive black holes. It seems the mechanism...
Experimental therapy crosses blood-brain barrier to treat neurological disease
Researchers have overcome a major challenge to treating brain diseases by engineering an experimental molecular therapy that crosses the blood-brain barrier to reverse neurological...
Scientists use magnetic fields to remotely stimulate brain — and control...
Scientists have used magnetic nanoparticles to stimulate neurons deep in the brain to evoke body movements of mice. This image shows a section of...
Geochemical detectives use lab mimicry to look back in time
An illustration of how laboratory techniques can tell scientists like Anat Shahar and her team about how elements such as iron behave under the...
Mystery of how first animals appeared on Earth solved
Associate Professor Jochen Brocks and Dr. Amber Jarrett with an oil sample taken ancient sedimentary rocks.
Credit: Stuart Hay, ANU
Research led by The Australian National...
Link between biological clock and aging revealed
Low-calorie diets can extend longevity, but new research is the first to show that calorie restriction influences the body’s circadian rhythms’ involvement with the...
