Researchers find 'protein-scaffolding' for repairing DNA damage

At the University of Copenhagen, researchers have discovered how some types of proteins stabilize damaged DNA…

Make fungi think they're starving to stop them having sex, say scientists

Tricking fungi into thinking they’re starving could be the key to slowing down our evolutionary arms…

Lend me a flipper: Dolphins and cooperation

Cooperation is one of the most important abilities for any social species. From hunting, breeding, and…

Transforming DNA repair errors into assets

A new bioinformatics tool, MHcut, developed by researchers in Kyoto, Japan, and Montreal, Canada, reveals that…

Advanced cancer drug shrinks and intercalates DNA

Because of the harmful side-effects of chemotherapy, and the increasing resistance to drugs found in many…

Mathematics reveals new insights into Marangoni flows

The Marangoni effect is a popular physics experiment. It is produced when an interface between water…

Development of mass production equipment for thin magnetic ribbon, minimizing energy-loss

JST announces that enterprise-led development of production equipment for ultra-low loss nano crystal ribbon, supported through…

Video: Gaia astronomical revolution

Launched in December 2013, the Gaia mission is revolutionizing our understanding of the Milky Way. The…

Researchers transmit energy with laser in 'historic' power-beaming demonstration

It was the second day of a three-day-long tech demonstration at the David Taylor Model Basin…

Image: A ghost in the Pleiades

This ghostly image shows what can happen when an interstellar cloud passes too close to a…