SpaceX's massive Starship rocket remains to pass key tests on its road to sending the Mars-bound launch system up to orbit for the 1st time. The private space firm fired 7 Raptor engines on its Starship Super Heavy prototype, called Booster seven, on Monday, September nineteen. As Space.com points out, it´s the highest number of...
Credit: Annelisa Leinbach An increase in genetic regulatory aspects explains how modern humans evolved bigger brains than other hominins. The surface area of the human being's cerebral cortex is more than 3 times the dimension of that of the chimpanzee. Neuroscientists have found that particular gene variants are linked to increases in brain surface area. The...
Credit: Environmental Pollution (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119852 An article released in Environmental Contamination, authored by Saint Louis University (SLU) researchers, demonstrates that human closeness is the best indication of microplastics being located in the Meramec River in Missouri. Something in the water A crew of investigators, carried by Jason Knouft, Ph.D., lecturer of biology, principal researcher with the WATER Institute...
Human robot communications not just enable robotics to interact with humans however likewise with the atmosphere. Microrobots, for example, can communicate with insects and measure the force exerted by them during the trip or walking. However, this communication is not direct, with the microrobots measuring insect habits primarily. Now, scientists have developed a soft micro-robotic...
Several of the ancient Egyptian branding-irons — actually made of bronze — were too small for large animals like cattle and were probably used to brand human slaves. Credit: © The Trustees of the British Museum; (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) A new research study proposes that small branding irons from ancient Egypt were most likely used to mark...
Utilizing old DNA, consisting of examples of human remains roughly 45,000 years, has shed light on a previously unknown facet of human development. Dr. Yassine Souilmi, Team Leader at the College of Adelaide's Australian Center for Old DNA, co-led the recent research study released in Nature Ecology and Development. "It was extensively thought the genes of...
Loss of Parafibromin/Hyrax results in loss of neural stem cell (NSC) polarity, leading to a switch from asymmetric to symmetric division. Credit: Duke-NUS. Researchers in Singapore and Spain have gained new insights into the task of a tumor-suppressor protein in fruit flies that help the understanding of some human cancer cells. The research, releaed in PLOS...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain What makes people brain distinct from that of all other animals-- including also our closest primate relatives? In an analysis of cell kinds in the prefrontal cortex of 4 primate species, Yale researchers identified species-specific-- particularly human-specific-- features, they report on Aug. 25th in the journal Science. And they discovered that what...
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 2022 This majestic image is the winner of the Royal Observatory Greenwich's Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest. First place...
Daran-Lapujade’s lab took human DNA (in red) encoding core functions in muscle cells, and inserted it into the DNA (chromosomes in purple) of a yeast cell (in yellow). The humanized yeast can be used as a tool for medical studies, for example in drug screening and cancer research. Credit: Ella Maru Studio / Pascale...
