An international group of leading stem cell researchers has issued a statement that specifies concerns…
Month: May 2013
Flight behavior of hungry malaria mosquitoes analyzed
Malaria mosquitoes go to work cautiously before landing on human skin and biting. Just before…
Computer simulations reveal the energy landscape of ion channels
Ion channels are important drug targets. A young team of researchers investigated the opening and…
Hearing the Russian meteor, in America: Sound arrived in 10 hours, lasted 10 more
How powerful was February’s meteor that crashed into Russia? Strong enough that its explosive entry…
Older U. S. -born Mexican-Americans have more physical limitations than Mexican American immigrants
New research indicates that Mexican-Americans born in the United States who are aged 55 and…
How to frustrate a quantum magnet: 16 atomic ions simulate a quantum antiferromagnet
Frustration crops up throughout nature when conflicting constraints on a physical system compete with one…
Telling time on Saturn: Undergraduate student shows how planet’s magnetosphere changes with the seasons
An undergraduate student has discovered that a process occurring in Saturn’s magnetosphere is linked to…
Individual brain cells track where we are and how we move
Researchers have gained new insights into how our brains form maps of our environment. They…
Boom in jellyfish: Overfishing called into question
Will we soon be forced to eat jellyfish? Since the beginning of the 2000s, these…
Malaria: A vector infecting both apes and humans
In 2010, a study revealed that the main agent of malaria in humans, called Plasmodium…