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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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A Wilderness of Mirrors | John Michael Greer
Johann TetzelFeb. 6, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- Bloggers may take a month off now and then, but the world has a less flexible work schedule, and keeps on churning out days and weeks at the same unremitt ...
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