Poetry Friday: Puppy Love
Whilst marriage may begin with wedded bliss, The passion that once burnt can start to fade; Behaviours that once hit feel like a miss, With tempers feeling tense, threadbare and frayed. But research may … Read more
NASA’s Webb Telescope Gets Freezing Summertime Lodging in Houston
Engineers will perform the test to prove that the telescope can operate in space at these temperatures. Chamber A will simulate an environment where the telescope will experience extreme cold — around 37 Kelvin (minus … Read more
Tech generates origami patterns for any 3-D structure
In a 1999 paper, Erik Demaine — now an MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer science, but then an 18-year-old PhD student at the University of Waterloo, in Canada — described an algorithm that … Read more
Mars rover Opportunity on walkabout near rim
NASA’s senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is examining rocks at the edge of Endeavour Crater for signs that they may have been either transported by a flood or eroded in place by wind. Those scenarios are … Read more
Chatter in the Deep Brain Spurs Empathy in Rats
It’s a classic conundrum: while rushing to get to an important meeting or appointment on time, you spot a stranger in distress. How do you decide whether to stop and help, or continue on your … Read more
Researchers Find New Mechanism for Genome Regulation
The same mechanisms that quickly separate mixtures of oil and water are at play when controlling the organization in an unusual part of our DNA called heterochromatin, according to a new study by researchers at … Read more
Oral Plague Vaccine Helps Reduce Outbreaks in Prairie Dog Colonies
Prairie dogs in the wild are less likely to succumb to plague after they ingest peanut-butter-flavored bait that contains a vaccine against the disease, according to a U.S. Geological Survey study published today in the … Read more
Microbe generates extraordinarily diverse array of peptide
It’s one of the tiniest organisms on Earth, but also one of the most abundant. And now, the microscopic marine bacteria called Prochlorococcus can add one more superlative to its list of attributes: It evolves … Read more
Gene editing reverses Huntington’s in mouse model
Disrupting a problematic gene in brain cells can reverse Huntington’s disease pathology and motor symptoms in a mouse model of the inherited neurological disorder, Emory scientists report. The researchers used CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing, delivered by … Read more
Pollinator extinctions alter structure of ecological networks
The absence of a single dominant bumblebee species from an ecosystem disrupts foraging patterns among a broad range of remaining pollinators in the system — from other bees to butterflies, beetles and more, field experiments … Read more
