Take a fish out of water and its stress hormones will go up. Adrenaline and noradrenaline, the ‘fight or flight’ hormones, peak first, followed more gradually by cortisol. A new study finds that largemouth bass whose cortisol levels rise most after a brief bout of stress are inherently harder to […]
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SAN FRANCISCO — Helios Wire, a satellite-enabled Internet of Things startup led by former UrtheCast founder and chief executive Scott Larson, announced Aug. 21 that it closed a $4 million funding round. Helios Wire will use the money to pay for satellites to help customers track and communicate with billions […]
WASHINGTON — No aerospace firms were among the 16 Chinese and Russia entities the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned Aug. 22 for supporting North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs. The 10 companies and six individuals targeted by Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control are alleged to have conducted business with North Korea […]
Results from its first run indicate that XENON1T is the most sensitive dark matter detector on Earth. The sensitivity of the detector — an underground sentinel awaiting a collision that would confirm a hypothesis – stems from both its size and its ‘silence.’
Researchers have created a system called ‘Interactive Robogami’ that lets you design a robot in minutes, and then 3-D-print and assemble it in as little as four hours.
In the mid-1990s, 1,000 truckloads of orange peels and orange pulp were purposefully unloaded onto a barren pasture in a Costa Rican national park. Today, that area is covered in lush, vine-laden forest.
Cryonics is the practice in which a body is ‘frozen’ shortly after death with the hope, when technology catches up, they will be able to be revived. Zhan Wenlian, who died of lung cancer aged 49 earlier this year, became the first person in China to be cryogenically frozen. Ms […]
By capturing the crystal structure of RNA polymerase during a nontraditional form of transcription — reiterative transcription — researchers have identified a new pathway used by RNA to exit an enzyme.