The inevitable development of fully automated and autonomous automobiles seems to progress well, with Google's driverless car prototype on the road this year. But many of the advanced technologies needed for such futuristic cars, mostly sensors like radar, lasers, 360 degree cameras and GPS, all con...
The production of new neurons, known as neurogenesis, was found to be induced in the adult normal cortex by the antidepressant fluoxetine, as reported in a study published online last week in Neuropsychopharmacology.
New research in the FASEB Journal by NIH scientists suggests that a small molecule called TFP5 rescues plaques and tangles by blocking an overactive brain signal, thereby restoring memory in mice with Alzheimer's - without obvious toxic side effects.
A new study related to NASA's Dawn mission found an answer on the whereabouts of dark spots on the giant asteroid Vesta. A carbon-rich asteroid possibly crashed into Vesta two to three billion years ago and formed dark blemishes on its surface.
Our red neighbor planet Mars most probably had an atmosphere, rivers and water 2 billion years ago, according to very recent discoveries thanks to the Mars Exploration Rovers like Opportunity and Curiosity, and orbiting satellites like the European Mars Express. Just last week, a study of the Martia...
While it was a success in itself to construct the $100 billion space station ISS, and to keep it manned consistently since over a decade now, the on-board laboratories and experimental capabilities are underutilized and didn't yield abundant results until now. Only 72 percent of NASA's science rack...
While it was New Year's Eve on Earth, the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this solar eruption, a truly gigantic and magnificent kind of firework. The flare shot about 260,000 kilometers out from the Sun. While it was a rather small eruption, it corresponds to 20 times the size of Earth with...
VNREDSat-1A will be launched during the second quarter of 2013 by the second Vega launcher, VERTA 1, performed by Arianespace at the Guiana Space Center, French Guiana, for the European Space Agency (ESA). The satellite will be carried in the lower position on the Vespa multiple launch structure use...
Alzheimer's disease is associated with the development of a toxic protein in the brain known as amyloid beta. The amyloid beta protein rapidly self-assembles in the brain and builds up to form plaques which are a hallmark of the disease.
Physicists at the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching have created an atomic gas in the laboratory that has negative Kelvin values. These negative absolute temperatures have several apparently absurd consequences: although the atoms in the ...
Plans by NASA to utilize a robotic spacecraft to drag a small asteroid to a lunar orbit surfaced today. According to researchers with the Keck Institute for Space Studies in California, such a mission would cost about $2.6 billion and could happen by the 2020s
Look up at the night sky and you'll see stars, sure. But you're also seeing planets -- billions and billions of them. At least
