A new device can produce electricity using shadows0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 5, 2020
It exploits the contrast between light and dark to produce a current to power a small gadget
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A new 3-D map illuminates the ‘little brain’ within the heart0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 3, 2020
Nerve cells in the organ are poorly understood
China’s giant radio telescope will start searching for aliens in September0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- June 3, 2020
FAST will scan the skies for life in addition to its usual exploration.
Heavy Water Has Sweet Taste, New Study Confirms0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 2, 2020
Highly purified heavy water has a distinctly sweeter taste than same-purity normal (light) water, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Czech Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, and the Leibniz-Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich.
Left-Handed DNA Has a Biological Role Within a Dynamic Genetic Code0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 2, 2020
Once considered an unimportant curiosity, Z-DNA is now recognized to provide an on-the-fly mechanism to regulate how an RNA transcript is edited.
Study: Women with Neanderthal Progesterone Gene Have Higher Fertility0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 2, 2020
A hormone called progesterone is important for preparing the uterine lining for egg implantation and in maintaining the early stages of pregnancy. Almost one in three women with European descent inherited a genetic variant of the progesterone receptor called V660L from Neanderthals. According to a new study, its carriers have higher fertility, more siblings, fewer miscarriages, and less bleeding during early pregnancy.
New human-mouse chimera is the most human yet0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 30, 2020
The mouse-human embryo contains up to 4% human cells.
Human speech has ‘ancient roots within primate communication’0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 29, 2020
Chimpanzee lip smacks follow the rhythm of human speech, a study has found.
Scientists find brain center that ‘profoundly’ shuts down pain0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 27, 2020
A Duke University research team has found a small area of the brain in mice that can profoundly control the animals’ sense of pain.
Physicists exploit a quantum rule to create a new kind of crystal0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 26, 2020
Atoms can arrange themselves in regular configurations thanks to the Pauli exclusion principle
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