The Allen Institute for Cell Science has released the Allen Cell Collection: the first publicly…
Month: November 2016
New strategy may drop cancer’s guard
A drug used now to treat Type 2 diabetes may someday help beat breast and…
It’s a bird… It’s a plane… It’s the tiniest asteroid!
A research team has characterized the smallest known asteroid using Earth-based telescopes: Asteroid 2015 TC25…
Physics, photosynthesis and solar cells
Researchers have combined quantum physics and photosynthesis to make discovery that could lead to highly…
Thinning of Brain Tissue Remains in College Football Players, Five Years After Play
Even college-level athletes may be vulnerable to the effects of head trauma, new research has…
Human ancestor ‘Lucy’ was a tree climber, new evidence suggests
Since the discovery of the fossil dubbed Lucy 42 years ago this month, paleontologists have…
An eye for fashion: Researcher finds optical illusion garments can improve body image
Optical illusion dresses have the power to change how women see their bodies, suggests the…
6,000 years ago the Sahara Desert was tropical, so what happened?
As little as 6,000 years ago, the vast Sahara Desert was covered in grassland that…
The economy of cold soil blues
For many farmers, in-furrow starter application is a cheaper alternative to other starter fertilizers. New…
What makes Bach sound like Bach? New dataset teaches algorithms classical music
MusicNet is the first publicly available large-scale classical music dataset designed to allow machine learning…