New research used cutting-edge brain imaging technologies to determine that the brain function responsible for…
Month: February 2016
Bachelor’s paradise: Female turtles outnumbering males due to warming temps
Rising global temperatures may skew gender imbalance among the marine turtle population, according to new…
Metal oxide sandwiches: New option to manipulate properties of interfaces
Scientists have discovered a new option to control properties of the interface between the two…
Tuning macrophages a ‘breakthrough’ in cancer immunotherapy
A research team describes ‘tuning’ macrophages from ones that repair wounds (and contribute to tumor…
The evolution of ‘Dark-fly’
On Nov. 11, 1954, Syuiti Mori turned out the lights on a small group of…
Diagnosis of rare bleeding disorder improved with super-resolution microscopy
Researchers have differentiated between patients with a rare bleeding disorder and healthy volunteers using super-resolution…
Scientists bridge different materials by design
It is possible to design and construct interfaces between materials with different structures by making…
Discovery of the specific properties of graphite-based carbon materials
Scientists have shown from detailed measurements that in atomically flat areas of a nitrogen-doped graphite…
A violent wind blown from the heart of a galaxy tells the tale of a merger
Astronomers have revealed the detailed structure of a massive ionized gas outflow streaming from the…
How herpes virus tricks the immune system
Scientists have captured atomic images of the virus that causes cold sores in action. Structural…