It is possible to convert stem cells into functional neurons by repressing a single protein, scientists in the U.S. and China found, which could allow for huge progress in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases like Huntington's, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
How common are Earth-sized planets? A study dealing with this question was officially published on January 11, and independently from that, a graphic from NASA appeared the day after, illustrating another extrapolation from recent data taken by NASA's orbiting Kepler spacecraft. According to the lat...
An extensive report by a panel of experts from the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine in the US found that Americans die younger and have higher rates of many types of diseases and injuries than people in other high-income countries.
Another doomsday option passed away, since refined calculations yielded the result that the Earth-threatening asteroid Apophis won't impact our planet with the force of a multitude of nuclear warheads in 2036. As the asteroid flew by Earth this Wednesday, detailed observations showing the exact proj...
Several of the partner countries that are currently building the international experimental fusion reactor ITER, including the EU, China, Japan and India are already contemplating their own demonstration facilities as the next step toward commercial fusion power. Korea is also doing so with K-DEMO, ...
For the first time, a virus has been observed and "filmed" in detail in the act of ejecting its genetic material in a host cell, infecting it. The research, appearing in Science Express, reveals some unknown changes in the structure of a virus as it infects an E. coli bacterium.
Researchers have created an artificial "poop" aimed at treating recurrent infections of C. difficile, a toxin-producing bacterium that causes severe stomach irritations.
Astronomers announced today that they had observed the largest structure yet seen in the universe, an enormous cluster of galaxies from the early Universe that spans an astonishing four billion light-years.
NGC 6872, the largest spiral galaxy in the known universe, was now measured by astronomers. They employed existing materials from several telescopes, including the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the Two Micron All Sky Survey, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, and NAS...
ITER, the world's first reactor-scale fusion machine, will have a plasma volume more than 10 times that of the next largest tokamak, JET. Which also means that problems in controlling the inherently unstable, super-heated plasma are 10 times more delicate.
An one kilometer long electric sail (ESAIL), which is meant to interact with the solar wind (charged particles from the sun) to produce long-distance propulsion power for a spacecraft, has now successfully been manufactured for the first time, announced the Electronics Research Laboratory at the Uni...
Astronomers are announcing today that a massive star, which they have watched repeatedly mimic a supernova since 2009, has finally exploded for real.
