EPFL scientists have carried out a genomic and evolutionary study of a large and enigmatic family of human proteins, to demonstrate that it is responsible for harnessing the millions of transposa...
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2017/03/08/the.proteins.domesticated.our.genomes
A study, by San Diego Zoo Global conservationists, released this week (Sept. 12, 2016) is shedding new light on how scientists evaluate polar bear diet and weight loss during their fasting season...
In today's computer chips, memory management is based on what computer scientists call the principle of locality: If a program needs a chunk of data stored at some memory location, it probably ne...
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2016/09/13/language.delivers.fourfold.speedups.big.data.problems
Technology advancements are expected to continue to drive down the cost of wind energy, according to a survey of the world's foremost wind power experts led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laborato...
When it comes to water, some materials have a split personality - and some of these materials could hold the key to new ways of harnessing solar energy. read more
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2016/09/13/water.helps.assembly.biofibers.could.capture.sunlight
Study Links Altered Brain Chemistry, Behavioral Impairments in Fish Exposed to Elevated CO2 Research team studied damselfish behavior and physiology under ocean acidification conditions predicted...
The gusting westerly winds that dominate the climate in central Asia, setting the pattern of dryness and location of central Asian deserts, have blown mostly unchanged for 42 million years. A Uni...
The study, published today in Nature Microbiology, holds promise for a new treatment method against antibiotic-resistant bacteria (commonly known as superbugs). read more
An international team of astronomers using Hubble have been able to study stellar evolution in real time. Over a period of 30 years dramatic increases in the temperature of the star SAO 244567 ha...
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2016/09/13/astronomers.observe.star.reborn.a.flash
NASA's Aqua satellite provided a visible image of Super Typhoon Meranti as it continued to move toward Taiwan and the northern Philippines. read more
A research team from the University of Bonn has succeeded for the first time in using light stimuli to stop life-threatening cardiac arrhythmia in mouse hearts. Furthermore, as shown in computer ...
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2016/09/13/termination.lethal.arrhythmia.with.light
For the first time, scientists know what happens to a virus' shape when it invades a host cell, thanks to an experiment by researchers at Penn State College of Medicine and University of Pittsbur...
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2016/09/13/first.accurate.simulation.a.virus.invading.a.cell
Two papers published by an assistant professor at the University of California, Riverside and several collaborators explain why the universe has enough energy to become transparent. read more
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2016/09/13/explaining.why.universe.can.be.transparent
Liquid crystals are strange substances, both fish and fowl. They can flow like a liquid, but have the orderly molecular structure of a crystalline solid. And that internal structure can be change...
A team of chemists has developed a method to yield highly detailed, three-dimensional images of the insides of batteries. The technique, based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), offers an enhan...
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2016/09/13/chemists.offer.enhanced.3.d.look.inside.batteries