Classes of transcription clusters. Credit: Nature Communications (2022)Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke's 3rd law states that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Indika Rajapakse, Ph.D., is a believer. The engineer and mathematician now discovers himself a biologist. And he believes the charm of blending these 3 disciplines is crucial to unraveling how cells...
A European robin (Erithacus rubecula) singing in Gennevilliers, France. Credit: Alexis Lours/Wikimedia Commons, CC BYWhen the COVID pandemic began, it was an international crisis for humans-- but as humans took shelter, reports of wildlife reclaiming what were once human-dominated spaces abounded. But biologists are noticing the patterns were not repeated around the world.Last year, a research...
A NASA mission to deliberately smash a spacecraft into an asteroid blasts off on Monday.After NASA deliberately crushes a car-sized spacecraft into an asteroid the following week, it´ll be up to European Space Agency's Hera mission to investigate the "crime scene" and discover the secrets of these potentially devastating space rocks.NASA's Dual Asteroid Redirection...
Credit: Unsplash / Mark PatonDigital health tools may help identify early indications of hearing loss and avoid additional damage, a new study highlights. Virtual care, combined with newly available over-the-counter hearing aids, could help people residing in rural areas and far from experts to maintain their hearing on point."We can really meet people where...
Credit: CC0 Public DomainAn international research group has discovered that the 1st continents were not stable and also were recycled inside the Earth, in the mantle.The research, released today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), is significant because it provides essential clues on how planets formed."The rocks in the core...
Artist's illustration of a small Saturn-like planet discovered in the system LkCa 15. The planet resides within dense rings of dust and gas that surround a bright yellow star. Material accumulates in a clump and arc-shape, about 60 degrees away from the planet. Note: illustration is not to scale.Credit: M.Weiss/Center for Astrophysics | Harvard...
Charged gases escapes from Comet Leonard forming a tail, December 2021. This image took top prize in the 2022 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. Credit: Gerald Rhemann, Royal Museums Greenwich, Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2022This majestic image is the winner of the Royal Observatory Greenwich's Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest.First place...
Credit: BBC UK.The quantity of time it takes a light particle to pass a hydrogen molecule was measured by a team of researchers to produce the smallest unit of time ever. A trillionth of a billionth of a 2nd is the unit of measurement known as a zeptoseconds. That consists of a decimal point,...
The United States is returning to the Moon 60 years after JFK's famous speech.On September 12, 1962, United States president John F Kennedy informed the public of his plan to put one man on the Moon by the decade's end.It was the height of the Cold War, and also America needed a huge victory...
Proteins designed with an ultra-rapid software tool called ProteinMPNN were much more likely to fold up as intended. Credit: Ian Haydon, UW Medicine Institute for Protein DesignOver the past 2 years, machine learning has revolutionized protein structure prediction. Currently, three papers in Science describe a similar revolution in protein design.In the current papers, biologists...
