An international group of astronomers has made a significant discovery using NASA’s Keplar spacecraft. Three planets that are just a little bigger than Earth have been spotted orbiting an M-dwarf star known as EPIC 201367075 Read More
Neuroscientists look for ways of studying molecular details of the brain. Edward Boyden, a neuroengineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, and his colleagues have developed a technique of make living cells Read More
A team led by Kim Lewis of Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, has discovered a new class of antibiotic, which they have named teixobactin. The antibiotic acts against the deadly bacterium MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) Read More
Researchers have attributed the cause of cancer to two factors: heredity and lifestyle. However, environmental risk factors can alter the cancer rates among adult tissues contribute to the development of cancer. Now scientists at Johns Read More
A team of researchers led by Azim Surani of the University of Cambridge, UK, and Jacob Hanna of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, has created human sperm and egg precursor cells in Read More
Researchers have been able to study 2 percent of the human genome in depth, which includes protein-coding DNA sequences. While mutations in this area of the genome have led to the understanding of the nature of Read More
Giant sand dunes make up the surface of Titan, Saturn’s moon, and these dunes made of hydrocarbon particles may have existed for thousands of years. Radar images of the dunes by NASA’s Cassini Read More
Josephine Joordens, a biologist at Leiden University, found a seashell to have a zigzag engraving—a doodle—that was made by Homo erectus half a million years ago. The shell, which had sand grains still Read More
Graphene is the world’s thinnest and strongest material, made of a single sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal honeycomb pattern. Jae-Hwang Lee and his team from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst discovered graphene’Read More
Although researchers have succeeded in sequencing the human genome, to expand the knowledge of functional elements within the genome, a thorough study of how human proteins operate and interact is essential. Researchers at the Dana-Farber Read More