Laboratory Equipment. Engineering an 'Invisible Cloak' for Bacteria to Deliver Drugs to Tumors Columbia Design scientists report that they have created a "cloaking" system that temporarily conceals healing bacteria from body immune systems. This allow them to supply drugs to tumors better and eliminate cancer cells in mice. By manipulating the germs' DNA, they programmed...
New, possibly arboreal rice rat species discovered in Ecuador - ScienceDaily - Verve timesVisitar "In total, the expeditions to the Kutukú region in southeastern Ecuador involved 1,200 trap nights, but only one specimen of the new species Mindomys kutuku was found," claims Dr. Claudia Koch, curator of herpetology at the LIB, Gallery Koenig Bonn, describing the effort...
Fusion could create more energy than any other process that could be produced on Earth. Credit: Shutterstock There has been significant excitement about recent results from the Joint European Torus (JET) facility in the UK, suggesting that the dream of nuclear fusion power is inching closer to reality. We know that fusion works-- it is the...
Credit: Artur Luczak Humans have been trying to comprehend exactly how the brain works and how it obtains information for centuries. While neuroscientists now have a decent understanding of how different parts of the brain work and what their function is, numerous questions remain unanswered; therefore, a unified neuroscience theory is still missing. In recent years,...
Prostate cancer cells. Credit: NIH Image Gallery Proteins and prostate cancer According to a study led by Cedars-Sinai Cancer investigators, targeting a particular protein that is often overexpressed in prostate cancer can help avoid or postpone the disease from infecting other parts of the body. The research study, released in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications, opens up...
As for we presently know, there is a solitary expanding blob of spacetime speckled with trillions of galaxies - that is our Universe. If there are others, forming a multiverse, we have no riveting evidence for their existence. Theories of cosmology, quantum physics, and the very philosophy of science have some issues that could be...
A Desert Full of Life Satellite images of the Sahara desert show a dry expanse, the endless rolling dunes we know from movies. Except typical satellite images do not reveal individual trees; however, that doesn't always mean they're not there. Scientists from the University of Copenhagen and NASA trained artificial intelligence to recognize trees and have them take another...
Seeing beneath our feet Researchers are hoping a significant advancement in quantum sensor technology that is being refed to as an "Edison moment" has worldwide implications. A new study in Nature details one of the first practical uses of quantum sensing, a since mostly theoretical technology that combines quantum physics and the study of Earth's gravity to look below...
The Gaia spacecraft's view of the Milky Way galaxy, with purple marking the remains of the Pontus galaxy. (Image credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) The massive appetite of a Galaxy The Milky Way galaxy devoured more galaxies in its early days than astronomers assumed. The Gaia spacecraft discovered the remains of an ancient cosmic collision in...
Study reveals that the speed of cognitive information processing stays exceptionally stable over decades Mental speed-- the speed at which we can manage problems needing quick decision-making-- does not change significantly over the years. Psychologists at Heidelberg University came to this conclusion under the leadership of Dr. Mischa von Krause and Dr. Stefan Radev. They...
