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MAR 04, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Astrocytes are star-shaped cells in our brain that surround neurons and neural circuits, protecting them from injury and ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)MAR 02, 2016Neuroscience
“Beam me up, Scotty!” That’s something we are more used to hearing on Star Trek as opposed to in ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 01, 2016Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, which was originally launched to perform the duties it does today in 1990, is still ...Written By: Anthony BouchardFEB 16, 2016Neuroscience
Almost every week there is another item in the news about head injuries in major league sports, most prominently t ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimFEB 12, 2016Cardiology
For diabetics, the threat of a heart attack is much more ominous than non-diabetics, because their prognosis is much wor ...Written By: Kara MarkerFEB 11, 2016Space & Astronomy
Gravity waves are something that scientists have not been able to prove since Einstein’s theory of general relativ ...Written By: Anthony BouchardFEB 09, 2016Space & Astronomy
The James Webb Space Telescope is the next major step up in space observation that will replace the Hubble Space Telesco ...Written By: Anthony BouchardFEB 08, 2016Videos
We're fans of the creative types of people who use their camera-equipped drones to capture amazing videos of nature and ...Written By: Anthony BouchardFEB 02, 2016Genetics & Genomics
Single-stranded molecules of DNA called “aptamers” have been studied since 1990 for their ability to bind an ...Written By: Kara MarkerJAN 26, 2016Immunology
Acting alongside T helper cells, the all-stars of adaptive immunity, regulatory T cells work to suppress any “pote ...Written By: Kara MarkerJAN 19, 2016Space & Astronomy
For the next month, sky gazers will get the opportunity see a rare event in the sky just before the crack of dawn each m ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 17, 2016Space & Astronomy
A supernova is a rare event where a star nearing the end of its life explodes into a massive burst of bright light. Some ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 17, 2016Space & Astronomy
When the American Astronomical Society met recently in Florida, there was a great deal of attention surrounding a partic ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJAN 16, 2016Cardiology
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a disease without a cure that a thousand new Americans every year, requires numer ...Written By: Kara MarkerJAN 13, 2016Space & Astronomy
Have scientists just found the missing gravity waves that we’ve been searching for for more than a century since E ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 09, 2016Space & Astronomy
In a very notable event related to astronomy, a black hole has been observed emitting visible light with just a basic 20 ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 06, 2016Space & Astronomy
Scientists have observed behavior from a super massive black hole approximately 26 million light years away from a galax ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 06, 2016Chemistry & Physics
Until recently astronomers thought only a small percentage of stars have strong magnetic fields, but a new way to probe ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)JAN 05, 2016Space & Astronomy
It’s not every day that you get to see two galaxies collide somewhere in the middle of the universe. It’s a ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 17, 2015Space & Astronomy
In a recent rare opportunity, scientists have managed to, for the first time, capture a predicted supernova in outer spa ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 04, 2015Space & Astronomy
There have been a lot of discoveries made far and near in our universe by NASA’s Kepler space telescope. The disco ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 03, 2015Space & Astronomy
Scientists are paying close attention to the HD 106906 system, a relatively distant and young system in which lies a you ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 26, 2015Videos
The Cassini spacecraft is in our solar system right now within the neighborhood of Saturn and its 62 confirmed moons. Ov ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 13, 2015Space & Astronomy
The word pulsar is short for pulsating radio star, and it’s a phenomenon that occurs in space when a neutron star ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
MAR 04, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Astrocytes are star-shaped cells in our brain that surround neurons and neural circuits, protecting them from injury and
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
MAR 02, 2016
Neuroscience
“Beam me up, Scotty!” That’s something we are more used to hearing on Star Trek as opposed to in
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 01, 2016
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, which was originally launched to perform the duties it does today in 1990, is still
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 16, 2016
Neuroscience
Almost every week there is another item in the news about head injuries in major league sports, most prominently t
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
FEB 12, 2016
Cardiology
For diabetics, the threat of a heart attack is much more ominous than non-diabetics, because their prognosis is much wor
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
FEB 11, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Gravity waves are something that scientists have not been able to prove since Einstein’s theory of general relativ
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 09, 2016
Space & Astronomy
The James Webb Space Telescope is the next major step up in space observation that will replace the Hubble Space Telesco
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 08, 2016
Videos
We're fans of the creative types of people who use their camera-equipped drones to capture amazing videos of nature and
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 02, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Single-stranded molecules of DNA called “aptamers” have been studied since 1990 for their ability to bind an
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 26, 2016
Immunology
Acting alongside T helper cells, the all-stars of adaptive immunity, regulatory T cells work to suppress any “pote
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 19, 2016
Space & Astronomy
For the next month, sky gazers will get the opportunity see a rare event in the sky just before the crack of dawn each m
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 17, 2016
Space & Astronomy
A supernova is a rare event where a star nearing the end of its life explodes into a massive burst of bright light. Some
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 17, 2016
Space & Astronomy
When the American Astronomical Society met recently in Florida, there was a great deal of attention surrounding a partic
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JAN 16, 2016
Cardiology
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a disease without a cure that a thousand new Americans every year, requires numer
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 13, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Have scientists just found the missing gravity waves that we’ve been searching for for more than a century since E
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 09, 2016
Space & Astronomy
In a very notable event related to astronomy, a black hole has been observed emitting visible light with just a basic 20
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 06, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Scientists have observed behavior from a super massive black hole approximately 26 million light years away from a galax
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 06, 2016
Chemistry & Physics
Until recently astronomers thought only a small percentage of stars have strong magnetic fields, but a new way to probe
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
JAN 05, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It’s not every day that you get to see two galaxies collide somewhere in the middle of the universe. It’s a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 17, 2015
Space & Astronomy
In a recent rare opportunity, scientists have managed to, for the first time, capture a predicted supernova in outer spa
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 04, 2015
Space & Astronomy
There have been a lot of discoveries made far and near in our universe by NASA’s Kepler space telescope. The disco
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 03, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Scientists are paying close attention to the HD 106906 system, a relatively distant and young system in which lies a you
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 26, 2015
Videos
The Cassini spacecraft is in our solar system right now within the neighborhood of Saturn and its 62 confirmed moons. Ov
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 13, 2015
Space & Astronomy
The word pulsar is short for pulsating radio star, and it’s a phenomenon that occurs in space when a neutron star
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard