According to Brian Skinner, a physicist at the Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois, and his team, people in crowds subconsciously calculate and predict when they are likely to collide with other people. While studying Read More
An epidemic that started a year ago called Sea Star Wasting Disease (SSWD) has killed thousands of Northeast Pacific Coast sea stars. The wasting disease that has affected at least 20 species of sea stars begins Read More
Cancer researcher and physician Jeffrey Engelman of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston has found a promising way of treating drug-resistant cancer by growing patients’ tumor cells and testing various drug combinations on them to Read More
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Philae spacecraft created history when it landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The spacecraft began its journey to the comet 10 years back. On November 12, Philae separated from the mother ship Read More
Martin Fussenegger, a professor of biotechnology and bioengineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the ETH Zurich, has created a device that contains light-inducible transgenes that respond to light of a specific wavelength and Read More
The blood-barrier consists of a layer of cells that line the inner surface of the capillaries that regulate the passage of nutrients and waste in and out of the central nervous system. While this barrier Read More
Scientists at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Ohio were successful in creating small stomachs, also called ‘gastric organoids,’ from stem cells. The researchers persuaded pluripotent stem cells to grow specifically into stomachs using Read More
Do adult ferns get to decide the sex of the younger ferns? Makoto Matsuoka, a molecular biologist at Nagoya University in Japan, led a study of Japanese climbing ferns (Lygodium japonicum) and found out that Read More
Astronomer George Fraser of the University of Leicester, UK, and his team have analyzed telescope data collected over 12 years and found a signal that could be the first-ever detection of dark matter. The dark matter Read More
A study conducted by Jaime Ross, a neuroscientist at the Karolinska Institute, US, suggests that the lifespan of a person is partly determined by the mitochondrial mutations he/she may inherit from the mother. These Read More