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  Evidence found of white dwarf remnant after supernova

  Aug 18, 2017 report

  An international team of space scientists has found evidence of what they believe is a remnant of a type Iax supernova—a white dwarf moving in a way that suggests it was blown across part of the universe by the power of ...

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  Astrophysicists explain the mysterious behavior of cosmic rays

  Aug 18, 2017

  A team of scientists from Russia and China has developed a model explaining the nature of high-energy cosmic rays (CRs) in our galaxy. These CRs have energies exceeding those produced by supernova explosions by one or two ...

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  Scientists improve brown dwarf weather forecasts

  Aug 18, 2017

  Dim objects called brown dwarfs, less massive than the sun but more massive than Jupiter, have powerful winds and clouds–specifically, hot patchy clouds made of iron droplets and silicate dust. Scientists recently realized ...

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  Histone 1, the guardian of genome stability

  Aug 18, 2017

  Scientists headed by Ferran Azorín at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) have discovered why histone 1 is a major protection factor against genomic instability and a vital protein. Their study of the ...

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  Super-photostable fluorescent labeling agent for super-resolution microscopy

  Aug 18, 2017

  Chemists at ITbM, Nagoya University have developed a super-photostable fluorescent dye called PhoxBright 430 (PB430) to visualize cellular ultra-structure by super-resolution microscopy. The exceptional photostability of ...

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  Chasing eclipses across the globe is a way of life for some

  Aug 18, 2017

  While Monday's total solar eclipse in the U.S. will be a once-in-a-lifetime sky show for millions, there's a small group of people who have experienced it all before and they can't get enough of it.

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  New gene catalog of ocean microbiome reveals surprises

  Aug 17, 2017

  Microbes dominate the planet, especially the ocean, and help support the entire marine food web. In a recent report published in Nature Microbiology, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UHM) oceanography professor Ed DeLong ...

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  Study validates East Antarctic ice sheet to remain stable even if western ice sheet melts

  Aug 17, 2017

  A new study from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis validates that the central core of the East Antarctic ice sheet should remain stable even if the West Antarctic ice sheet melts.

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  Gold nanostars and immunotherapy vaccinate mice against cancer

  Aug 17, 2017

  By combining an FDA-approved cancer immunotherapy with an emerging tumor-roasting nanotechnology, Duke University researchers improved the efficacy of both therapies in a proof-of-concept study using mice.

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  AI implications: Engineer's model lays groundwork for machine-learning device

  Aug 17, 2017

  In what could be a small step for science potentially leading to a breakthrough, an engineer at Washington University in St. Louis has taken steps toward using nanocrystal networks for artificial intelligence applications.