A scaffold at the center of our cellular skeleton

All animal cells have an organelle called a centrosome, which is essential to the organization of…

Ball Aerospace Completes MethaneSAT Preliminary Design Review

Ball Aerospace Completes MethaneSAT Preliminary Design Review Click here for original story, Ball Aerospace…

Laser writing enables practical flat optics and data storage in glass

Femtosecond laser machining has emerged as an attractive technology enabling applications ranging from eye surgery to…

Earthquakes disrupt sperm whales' ability to find food, study finds

Otago scientists studying sperm whales off the coast of Kaikōura have discovered earthquakes affect their ability…

How to keep the nucleus clean

Cells are small factories that constantly produce protein and RNA molecules by decoding the genetic information…

Sub-Neptune sized planet validated with the habitable-zone planet finder

A signal originally detected by the Kepler spacecraft has been validated as an exoplanet using the…

10,000 times faster calculations of many-body quantum dynamics possible

How an electron behaves in an atom, or how it moves in a solid, can be…

Exploring a genome's 3-D organization through a social network lens

Computational biologists at Carnegie Mellon University have taken an algorithm used to study social networks, such…

Huge stores of Arctic sea ice likely contributed to past climate cooling

In a new paper, climate scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Woods Hole Oceanographic…

Researchers show what drives a novel, ordered assembly of alternating peptides

A team of researchers has verified that it is possible to engineer two-layered nanofibers consisting of…