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A research team at Keio University, led by Associate Professor Tomoharu Oka, has discovered intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) candidates at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
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The interior motions of the Sun are much slower than predicted. Rather than moving at the speed of a jet plane (as previously understood) the plasma flows at a walking pace.
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For humans, few things are as ubiquitous as the common cold. We catch it more than any other infectious disease and it's been with us as about as long as we've existed.
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Applying physics to put out a fire, as opposed to chemistry, is an idea DARPA has been eyeing for a while, and it might lead to military devices that can better snuff out fires in enclosed places. Now they have demonstrated a new device in action.
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“The more greens a person eats, the higher the phytosterols in the blood are – the vegetable equivalent of cholesterol. Since this was one of the markers analyzed in the study, the participants needed to follow a similar diet to avoid biased results,
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The practical side of the Emefcy fuel cell relates to the materials engineering: both the anode and cathode are made of a carbon cloth that acts as a conductor. Precious metals have long been used as conducting materials in batteries and other types
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In a small trial, patients given an existing drug showed no cognitive decline over three years.
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The killing of three US citizens, one a 16-year-old boy, in targeted drone strikes last year were unlawful and violated their constitutional rights by not affording them due process, according to a lawsuit filed by their relatives on Wednesday.
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A US Senate hearing Wednesday highlighted concern over the growing use of facial recognition technologies, both for law enforcement use and in big social networks like Facebook.
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This solution brought its own problems though, as using two LCD screens in unison increases the complexity of calculating the required patterns, so the team then turned to computed topography (CT) technology that is used in medical imaging. It turns
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The magnetically-labeled cells so far appear to be harmless to the recipients, as two test subjects were given increasingly large doses of the cells through a vein, and showed no adverse effects.
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The planet is hot and getting hotter.
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A new bionic eye implant could allow blind people to recognize faces, watch TV and even read.
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Geoengineering threatens to worsen droughts, starve millions
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Two Harvard engineers are planning to spray thousands of tonnes of sun-reflecting chemical particles into the atmosphere to artificially cool the planet, using a balloon flying 80,000 feet over Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
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A biotech company founded by Craig Mello, codiscoverer of RNAi, brings its first self-delivering interfering RNA to clinical trial.
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This is part of a SPACE.com series of articles on the Greatest Moments in Flight, the breakthrough events that paved the way for human spaceflight and its next steps: asteroid mining and bases on the moon and Mars.
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Researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine have found a drug that boosts memory function in those with Down syndrome, a major milestone in the treatment of this genetic disorder that could significantly improve quality of life.
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Toronto Scientists have discovered two genetic variants associated with the substantial, rapid weight gain occurring in nearly half the patients treated with antipsychotic medications, according to two studies involving the Centre for Addiction and M
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A biotech company founded by Craig Mello, codiscoverer of RNAi, brings its first self-delivering interfering RNA to clinical trial.
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Bacteria have been genetically modified to kill the parasite that causes malaria, before people can be infected.
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By converting sunlight into chemical energy, artificial photosynthesis systems could potentially produce renewable, nonpolluting fuels and chemicals for a wide variety of uses. But developing an efficient solar-to-fuel conversion process has turned o
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Johns Hopkins tissue engineers have used tiny, artificial fiber scaffolds thousands of times smaller than a human hair to help coax stem cells into developing into cartilage, the shock-absorbing lining of elbows and knees that often wears thin from i
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Two snow leopards were captured, fitted with satellite collars, and released for the first time in Afghanistan by a team of Wildlife Conservation Society conservationists and Afghan veterinarians conducting research during a recent expedition.
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. With the placement of a sheet of graphene just one-carbon-atom-thick, the researchers transformed the originally passive device into an active one that generated microwave photonic signals and performed parametric wavelength conversion at telecommu
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A 2008 paper out of the Dana-Farber lab of Bruce Spiegelman, PhD, had proposed the existence of a third type of fat cell, and now Spiegelman and his team have become the first to isolate them and determine beige fat’s unique genetic profile. They fou
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Can you teach an old dog (or human) new tricks? Yes, but it might take time, practice, and hard work before he or she gets it right, according to Hans Schroder and colleagues from Michigan State University in the US.
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Helper cells traditionally thought to only assist killer white blood cells may be the frontline warriors when battling hepatitis A infection. These are the findings from a Nationwide Children's Hospital study appearing in a recent issue of the Journa
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. The problem is that the third rail has a very limited capacity for absorbing a sudden flood of electrical energy. As a result, the voltage of the third rail rises considerably. However, the third rail voltage is controlled within narrow limits to a
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Something else vets know, and doctors ought to, concerns the phenomenon of capture myopathy. This is when animals caught by predators die of a sudden surge of adrenaline. Unfortunately, this reaction can also be triggered when they are held by well-
