Utah Team Invents Way to Image Brains of Mice Using a Small Needle
A University of Utah team discovered a method for turning a small, $40 needle into a 3-D microscope capable of taking images up to 70 times smaller than the width of a human hair. This new method not only produces high-quality images comparable to expensive microscopes, but may be implanted into the brains of living mice for imaging at the cellular level. (more…)
A pioneering new study has shown that water found on Earth predates the formation of the sun – raising hopes that life could exist on exoplanets, the planets orbiting other stars in our galaxy
The ground-breaking research set out to discover the origin of the water that was deposited on the Earth as it formed. (more…)
Having a companion in old age is good for people — and, it turns out, might extend the chance for life on certain Earth-sized planets in the cosmos as well.
Planets cool as they age. Over time their molten cores solidify and inner heat-generating activity dwindles, becoming less able to keep the world habitable by regulating carbon dioxide to prevent runaway heating or cooling. (more…)
Nach vier Jahren erfolgreicher Datenakquisition für die neue globale Topographie der Erde beginnt die Science Phase
Seit Juni 2007 kreist der Radarsatellit TerraSAR-X um die Erde, im Juni 2010 folgte ihm sein Zwilling TanDEM-X ins All. Seit knapp vier Jahren wurden beide Satelliten beim Deutschen Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) im engen Formationsflug betrieben. Die Satelliten nahmen dabei Daten für die neue globale Topographie der Erde auf. (more…)
William Warren’s research group is advancing virtual reality technology in the service of studying the science of the swarm: how patterns of crowd movement emerge from individual behaviors. He described his work June 29 in a keynote address to a conference in Vancouver.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — The cognitive scientists in the Virtual Environment Navigation lab at Brown University are not only advancing a frontier of behavioral research but also of technology. (more…)
Practice doesn’t make it perfect.
Deliberate practice may have less influence in building expertise than previously thought, according to an analysis by researchers at Princeton University, Michigan State University and Rice University. (more…)
Researchers at UD use ancient gene to study virus biology
Researchers at the University of Delaware have discovered that an ancient gene — ribonucleotide reductase (RNR), which occurs in all cellular life — provides important biological insights into the characteristics of unknown viruses in the sea. (more…)
Open a door and watch what happens — the hinge allows it to open and close, but doesn’t permanently bend. This simple concept of mechanical motion is vital for making all kinds of movable structures, including mirrors and antennas on spacecraft. Material scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, are working on new, innovative methods of creating materials that can be used for motion-based mechanisms. (more…)
