Intestines Act As HIV Reservoir
Gut-associated lymphoid tissue accounts for 70 percent of the body’s immune system and should be a priority target for HIV…
Memory And Computation Set For Cohabitation
Scientists from Princeton University have turned semiconductors into magnets, potentially opening the door for computer chips that can both calculate…
Crop Yields Set To Plunge
Past research indicated that rising levels of greenhouse gases could benefit crop yields, but that theory now looks to be…
Building Muscle From Fatty Stem Cells
Coming hot on the heels of the news that scientists have turned stem cells into sperm, theProceedings of the National…
Hacking The Speed Of Light
Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have literally found a back-door to an otherwise rock-solid physical tenet.…
Astronomers Cop An Eyeful Of Star Explosion
Astronomers from the UK and Germany have detected a spectacular nuclear explosion that created a blast wave traveling at a…
Satellites Catch Earth Reconfiguring Its Magnetic Field
Scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) have managed to perfectly position their 4 Cluster spacecraft so as to measure…
MIT Created Fiber Web Sees Everything
Throw away those cumbersome camera lenses, as MIT has just developed a new and amazing lightweight web fiber that can…
High Hopes For High Altitude Broadband
Broadband communications may be about to get a whole lot faster and cheaper, thanks to high-altitude platforms (HAPs) that can…
Protein Complex Fixes Knotty DNA Problem
Our bodies are continually replenishing cells by way of cell division, but occasionally things can go awry during this process,…
Global Warming Behind Early Primate Diaspora?
Exactly what prompted early primates to travel between continents 55 million years ago has perplexed scientists for years. And there…
Next Mars Lander Takes Shape
NASA’s next lander mission is set to gather samples from Mars’ surface and the frozen layer that lies beneath, and…
Turbulence Gets Web-Slingers Flying
Researchers are using a new model to explain how spiders “fly” or “parachute” on their webs, a trick that lets…
Alpine Glaciers: Going, Going, Gone!
European Alpine glacial cover will decrease by 80 percent if summer temperatures increase by 5 degrees Fahrenheit, say scientists from…
Quantifying A Mystical Experience: Hallucinogenic Research Gets To Grips With Spirituality
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that an active agent contained in “sacred mushrooms” can induce strikingly similar mystical experiences…
Face Blindness Caused By Single Gene
Imagine how debilitating and awkward it would be if you could not differentiate faces in a crowd. It sounds like…
Saturn’s Rings Giving Up Some Of Their Secrets
As Cassini beams back a sequence of new images, NASA imaging team members are receiving yet more clues about the…
Giant Parasol To Help Image Distant Planets
Astronomers could soon be using a gigantic space-parasol to block out starlight that interferes with the view of planets in…
Sleeping Less And Self-Deluding More
New findings published in the American Journal of Epidemiology not only reveal that we don’t get enough sleep, but that…
Matrix Turns Stem Cells Into Neural Components
Embryonic stem cells have astonished scientists with their facility to develop into any kind of cell in the human body,…
Jellyfish Squish Greenhouse Dogma
Vast swarms of small jellyfish-like creatures, known as salps, may have a greater impact on carbon cycling than previously thought,…