Perhaps not the brightest of cephalopods, the California market squid (Doryteuthis opalescens) has amazing light-manipulating…
Month: July 2015
Brain activity predicts promiscuity and problem drinking
A new pair of brain-imaging studies suggest that researchers may be able to predict how…
Regenerative medicine biologists discover a cellular structure that explains fate of stem cells
Researchers have found a previously unidentified mechanism that helps explain why stem cells undergo self-renewing…
Rosetta spacecraft sees sinkholes on comet
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft first began orbiting comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in August 2014. Almost…
Human-like ‘eye’ in single-celled plankton: Mitochondria, plastids evolved together
Scientists have peered into the eye-like structure of single-celled marine plankton called warnowiids and found…
Humans evolved to be taller and faster-thinking, study suggests
People have evolved to be smarter and taller than their predecessors, a study of populations…
Discovery of nanotubes offers new clues about cell-to-cell communication
When it comes to communicating with each other, some cells may be more “old school”…
Groundwater modeling breakthrough
A newly discovered equation is expected to greatly improve the reliability and functionality for hundreds…
New storage cell for solar energy storage, nighttime conversion
A materials science and engineering team has developed a new energy cell that can store…
Helping students stick with online courses
Researchers showed that a dropout-prediction model trained on data from one offering of a course…