The Liverpool Land peninsula, on the east coast of Greenland, is featured in this satellite image from the European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel-2. The peninsula is visible at the top partially covered with snow. The Scoresby Sound (Danish: Scoresby Sun…
Seventeen years ago, Mozilla developer Graydon Hoare returned from work to find his building's elevator out of order. Forced to climb 21 flights of stairs, he became...
Two potent inhibitors PPEF and BPVF of bacterial TopoIA enzymes function by impairing DNA binding and thus DNA cleavage and relaxation activities of bacterial topoisomerase I enzymes.
MOSCOW, Feb 18 — Russia’s space agency on Saturday proposed the launch of a ship on February 24 to bring two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut back from the...
RNA-guided, CRISPR-associated transposons hold great promise for precision genome editing. Here, the authors provide genetic, biochemical and structural data how their activity is regulated in situ by CvkR, an unusual MerR family regulator.
Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawaiʻi have discovered that aurorae at visible wavelengths appear on all 4 major moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. A team led by Caltech and Boston University observed the moons in J…
Science News Desk - The meteorites that have fallen recently in Gujarat can prove to be an extremely important resource for understanding planetary processes.
Astronomy Magazine named Northwestern University astrophysicist Wen-fai Fong to its list of “Rising Stars in Astronomy,” an honor recognizing 25 early career astronomers who have already made significant impacts in the field.Fong was cited for her wo
The CT-scanned skull of a 319-million-year-old fossilized fish, pulled from a coal mine in England more than a century ago, has revealed the oldest example of a well-preserved vertebrate brain.The brain and its cranial nerves are roughly an inch long
Scientific Reports - Higher throughput workflow with sensitive, reliable and automatic quantification of myelination in vitro suitable for drug screening