A new study pinpoints the location of a nova first spotted by Korean astrologers almost 600 years ago that now undergoes smaller-scale ‘dwarf nova’ eruptions. The work supports that idea that novae go through a very long-term life cycle after erupting, fading to obscurity for thousands of years, and then […]
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Japanese neurosurgeons report two new strategies to improve outcomes of iPS cell-based therapies for Parkinson’s disease in monkey brains. The findings are a key step for patient recruitment of the first iPS cell-based therapy to treat neurodegenerative diseases.
Motorized molecules that target diseased cells may deliver drugs to or kill the cells by drilling into the cell membranes. Scientists have demonstrated them on cancer and other cells.
A natural global warming event that took place 56 million years ago was triggered almost entirely by volcanic eruptions that occurred as Greenland separated from Europe during the opening of the North Atlantic Ocean, according to new research.
Scouring the skies for alien technology has turned up strange radio burstsThomas R. Fletcher / Alamy Stock Photo By Leah Crane One of the most mysterious objects in space just got even weirder. A group of researchers just found 15 new fast radio bursts, all from the only one of […]
No drilling hereNASA By Andy Coghlan Brazil has rejected an application from the French oil giant Total and its collaborator BP to drill for oil near a pristine deep-water coral reef 120 kilometres from the mouth of the Amazon river. Total had applied to drill for oil at sites in […]
View photos The tunnel system of the European XFEL X-ray Free Electron laser near Hamburg. (AFP Photo/Heiner MULLER-ELSNER) More Paris (AFP) – A sleek, subterranean X-ray laser to be unveiled Friday in Germany, by far the most powerful in the world, has scientists in a dozen fields jostling to train […]
Daydreaming through a mazeWill & Deni McIntyre/Science Photo Library By Jessica Hamzelou WHILE you’re daydreaming, your brain is hard at work. For the first time, scans have shown human brains replaying individual memories, filing them away for long-term storage. Research in rats has found that the hippocampus region of their brain […]