Live Fruit Fly Brains Reveal Molecular Switch That Wakes Up Dormant Neural Stem Cells

Small (dormant) and enlarged (reactivated) neural stem cells expressing membrane-tagged GFP (green) and the cell cycle marker Cyclin B (red) in the young Drosophila fruit fly larval brain. Credit: Un ...

Study shows how the nervous system can transmit information across multiple generations | Tel Aviv University

Credit: CC0 Public Domain June 6, 2019 (Phys.org) -- A new Tel Aviv University study finds a mechanism exhibited in nematodes that allows the nervous system cells -- neurons -- to communicate with ge ...

What organizes the genome in the nucleus? | Ludwig Maximilian

Credit: CC0 Public Domain June 6, 2019 (Phys.org) -- Spatial separation of active from inactive fractions of the genome in the cell nucleus is crucial for gene expression control. A new study uncover ...

Delusions of Omnipotence | John Michael Greer

Wizard puppet by Neil Tackaberry, Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0)May 29, 2019 (EcoSophia) -- I hope my readers won’t object at this point if our conversation takes an excursion into the outer reaches of Americ ...

Physicists reverse time using quantum computer | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Credit: @tsarcyanide/MIPT March 13, 2019 (Phys.org) -- Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology teamed up with colleagues from the United States and Switzerland and returned th ...

Hubble and Gaia accurately weigh the Milky Way | ESA/Hubble Information Center

This artist's impression shows a computer-generated model of the Milky Way and the accurate positions of the globular clusters used in this study surrounding it. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, L. Calçada ...

Methane in the atmosphere is surging, and that's got scientists worried | Julia Rosen

Photo of landfill burnoff flare. Credit: Eddie Hagler/Public Domain March 4, 2019 (Phys.org) -- Scientists love a good mystery. But it's more fun when the future of humanity isn't at stake. This enig ...

Scientists expose hidden risks of diarrhoeal disease | University of East Anglia

Cryptosporidium muris. Credit: public domain image March 4, 2019 (MedicalXpress) -- A rapidly evolving new subspecies of the cryptosporidium parasite -- a leading cause of diarrhoeal disease in child ...

Chirality yields colossal photocurrent | Boston College

The Weyl semimetal Tantalum Arsenide has a colossal bulk photovoltaic effect - an intrinsic, or non-linear, generation of current from light more than ten times larger than ever previously achieved, ...

Due to humans, extinction risk for 1,700 animal species to increase by 2070 | Yale University

Azores. Credit: CC0 Public Domain March 4, 2019 (Phys.org) -- As humans continue to expand our use of land across the planet, we leave other species little ground to stand on. By 2070, increased huma ...

Climate change may affect ecological interactions among species | Peter Moon

Predator-prey equilibria are being disrupted by climate change, according to a study led by Brazilian researchers and published in Nature Climate Change. Credit: Mythilibadam/ Wikimedia Commons Feb. ...