Researchers have uncovered new insights on the genetic causes of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), which…
Month: June 2015
NASA’s Operation IceBridge concludes 2015 Arctic campaign
Operation IceBridge wrapped up its seventh Arctic deployment on May 21, when NASA’s C-130 research…
Draining lakes unlikely to worsen Greenland’s contribution to sea levels
Each summer, Greenland’s ice sheet — the world’s second-largest expanse of ice, measuring three times…
Avian ecologists combine bird survey data to ID vulnerable boreal species
Continent-wide bird surveys play an important role in conservation, says an avian ecologist, but they…
Mixing liquid in microchannels: How to cut a vortex into slices
A group of physicists came up with a way to stir up a liquid in…
High levels of moral reasoning correspond with increased gray matter in brain
Individuals with a higher level of moral reasoning skills showed increased gray matter in the…
Physicists eager for new, high-energy Large Hadron Collider run
When experiments at the Large Hadron Collider collect the first 13-teraelectronvolt particle collisions data today,…
Homing in on what’s wearing out T cells
When the T cells of your immune system are forced to deal over time with…
Years of good blood sugar control helps diabetic hearts, study finds
Day in and day out, millions of people with diabetes test their blood sugar levels….
Eukaryotes: A new timetable of evolution
The first single-celled organisms with a nucleus originated more than a billion years later than…