In sweltering swamps, you seethe And sweat. Shedding layers to Acclimatise to the rising heat, Learning to bask in the warmth Of its embrace as you spread Invasive tendrils to test the Boundaries of your habitat.
Jul 26, 2019
The fact that millions of North American monarch butterflies fly thousands of miles each fall and somehow manage to find the same overwintering sites in central Mexican forests and along the California coast, year after year, is pretty mind-blowing.
Jul 24, 2019
In a pair of new papers, scientists paint a picture of how solar cycles suddenly die, potentially causing tsunamis of plasma to race through the Sun's interior and trigger the birth of the next sunspot cycle only a few short weeks later.
Jul 24, 2019
Scientists can turn proteins into never-ending patterns that look like flowers, trees or snowflakes, a technique that could help engineer a filter for tainted water and human tissues.
Jul 24, 2019
A de novo gene mutation that encodes a brain protein in a child with autism has been placed into the brains of mice.
Jul 23, 2019
Ancient submerged volcanoes Rise up from the ocean floor, Their tips littering the landscape As tremendous shadows of the past Cast a barely visible film of filth Across this false Pacific paradise.
Jul 19, 2019
Wei Lu stands with first author Seung Hwan Lee, an electrical engineering PhD student, who holds the memristor array.
Jul 19, 2019
An intricately thin wire grid is visible (click image to view larger size) atop an array of photomultiplier tube.
Jul 18, 2019
Carnegie Mellon University's Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Maysam Chamanzar and ECE Ph.D.
Jul 17, 2019
Giving credence to the saying, "While the cat's away, the mice will play," a new study indicates that pumas and medium-sized carnivores lie low when they sense the presence of humans, which frees up the landscape for rodents to forage more brazenly.
Jul 17, 2019
The style of tackling used in rugby may be associated with a lower force of impact than the style used in football, according to a preliminary study of college…
Jul 17, 2019
Quantum information processing promises to be much faster and more secure than what today's supercomputers can achieve, but doesn't exist yet because its building blocks, qubits, are notoriously unstable.
Jul 17, 2019
A new study published in Cell Reports found that a transcription factor called Slug serves as ‘command central’ for determining breast stem cell health, regulating both stem cell activity and repair of DNA damage.
Jul 16, 2019
The disability burden for people with multiple sclerosis (MS) can vary significantly depending on whether they have a relapsing/remitting form of the disease…
Jul 15, 2019
