James Whitmore
A colossal structure in the distant Universe is defying our understanding of how the Universe evolved. In light that has traveled for 6.9 billion years to reach us, astronomers have found a giant, a… [+4202 chars]
The Sun, our closest star, is constantly in motion. Beneath its glowing surface lie powerful magnetic fields, boiling plasma, and violent eruptions. Studying the Sun helps us understand space weather… [+5198 chars]
When you hear the word mummy, chances are you think of ancient Egypt. Many different cultures embalmed their deceased, however, and scientists have just found a particularly unexpected case. As deta… [+3119 chars]
You might owe that gold necklace around your neck to a moody, long-dead star from the universe’s ancient past. According to a new study, magnetarsa rare type of neutron starmay have forged some of th… [+2501 chars]
Brain-to-speech interfaces have been promising to help paralyzed individuals communicate for years. Unfortunately, many systems have had significant latency that has left them lacking somewhat in the… [+4896 chars]
Residents of the Scottish Isle of Lewis in the Hebrides are claiming to hear a strange humming noise. No one knows where it’s coming fromor if it’s even real. Nevertheless, some hum-hearers claim it’… [+3123 chars]
Two astronauts are gearing up for some orbital maintenance work outside the International Space Station (ISS) during a rare all-woman spacewalk. NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers are se… [+1552 chars]
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have directly detected the faint glow of a planet that’s colder than any world whose light has been directly observedan astonishing detection that rev… [+2373 chars]
When the Romans pushed their way north into the German provinces, they built (circa 90 AD) the Saalburg, a fort that protected the boundary between the Roman Empire and the Germanic tribal t… [+2364 chars]
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) announced 120 newly elected members, including seven Stanford University researchers. Scientists are elected to the NAS by their peers in recognition of their d… [+1998 chars]
(Can religion make you happy? Scientists may soon find out.) Alberta Christina C. Pertiwi, 28, who helps direct undergraduate programs at the Universitas Indonesia and lectures in its Anthropology D… [+855 chars]
The presence of genome-wide linkage and de novo mutations in ORFs severely limited the ability to distinguish causal SNPs contributing to increased pathogenesis in USA300 strains. The effect of some … [+5056 chars]
Lesions close up quicker if you’re a chimpanzee than a person Clive Brunskill/Getty Images Human wounds take almost three times as long to heal as the injuries of other mammals, including chimpanze… [+2161 chars]
Supervised molecular dynamics (Cuzzolin et al., 2016; Deganutti et al., 2020b) (SuMD) is an efficient adaptive sampling technique for studying ligand-receptor binding and unbinding pathways; here, we… [+5924 chars]
There is strong in vivo evidence that SOM interneurons play a critical role in the modulation of cortical response (Urban-Ciecko and Barth, 2016; Yavorska and Wehr, 2016). However, the complex wiring… [+8531 chars]
In this study, we have systematically investigated the requirements for CDL binding and stabilization of membrane proteins, using the scaffold protein ROCKET as a model system. CDL binding sites have… [+6316 chars]
The six-subunit ORC is important for recruiting MCM2-7, the core of the replicative DNA helicase and is essential for all forms of DNA replication in eukaryotic cells (Costa and Diffley, 2022; Stillm… [+15089 chars]
[Combat behavior] is difficult to observe in nature, says Alexandre Missassi , a zoologist with Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi in Belém in northeastern Brazil who has studied ritual male combat between… [+1635 chars]