Nematodes ‘speak’ a universal language

CALTECH (US) — Biologists have decoded the language of worms to discover that different roundworm species communicate by using the same types of chemical cues. Continue…

Monday, April 16, 2012 9:09 - 1 Comment

Science & Technology - Feb 28, 2012 11:13 - 5 Comments

Full spectrum boosts solar cell power

CALTECH (US) — Printing specially engineered nanostructures on solar cells allows them to reach as high as 70 percent efficiency. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Feb 10, 2012 12:15 - 7 Comments

Therapy for MS prods brain to re-cloak neurons

CALTECH (US) — A new gene therapy, applied directly to the brain, may help protect neurons from damage by diseases like multiple sclerosis. (more…)

Science & Technology - Jan 30, 2012 13:25 - 3 Comments

Smells, great and gross, reshape the brain

CALTECH (US) — Based on a new study with locusts, researchers better understand how the brain adapts to remember new and specific smells. (more…)

Science & Technology - Jan 13, 2012 12:55 - 5 Comments

Tiny planet triplets orbit dwarf star

CALTECH (US) — Astronomers have discovered the three smallest confirmed planets ever detected outside our solar system. (more…)

Potent antibodies protect mice from HIV

CALTECH (US) — Researchers for the past year have been studying a group of potent HIV-neutralizing antibodies. Now biologists have discovered a way to deliver the antibodies to mice. (more…)

Science & Technology - Nov 3, 2011 11:13 - 4 Comments

Aging leeches catch prey with ‘wave sense’

CALTECH (US) — Leeches have two distinct ways to sense prey, however, their preferred detection method changes as they age, a new study shows. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Oct 25, 2011 9:37 - 9 Comments

Left-right brain ‘talk’ despite broken link

CALTECH (US) — People who are born without a link between the brain’s left and right hemispheres still show surprisingly normal communication across the gap. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Oct 17, 2011 10:57 - 2 Comments

With autism, social stature’s not an issue

CALTECH (US) — High-functioning people with autism think differently about how others think of them—in fact they don’t consider what others think about them at all. (more…)

Science & Technology - Oct 5, 2011 11:18 - 1 Comment

Surprising way neurons react to faces

CALTECH (US) — Researchers studying how brain cells respond to human faces have recorded a novel behavior in neurons. (more…)

Science & Technology - Aug 23, 2011 17:46 - 0 Comments

Snow White’s an icy dwarf (planet)

CALTECH (US) — The red-tinged dwarf planet Snow White, once an environment awash in watery volcanoes, is now an icy world that astronomers believe may be covered by a thin layer of methane. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Aug 19, 2011 12:05 - 8 Comments

To cure HIV, attack the reservoir

CALTECH (US) — Chronic infectious diseases like HIV survive by forming reservoirs. These small populations of a bacterium or virus persist despite attacks from the immune system or drug treatment. (more…)

Science & Technology - Aug 16, 2011 13:39 - 0 Comments

Disorder attracts water to nanotubes

CALTECH (US) — What would make free-flowing water spontaneously confine itself to the extremely small space of carbon nanotubes? All it takes is a little disorder. (more…)

Earth & Environment - Aug 15, 2011 11:06 - 0 Comments

Mexico quake’s path veered from norm

CALTECH (US) — The El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake that struck Baja California in April 2010 took a divergent route, causing a fault line that remained straight on the surface but was warped and complicated at depth. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Aug 1, 2011 14:48 - 0 Comments

Protein pair fights HIV 18x better

CALTECH (US) — Pairing two copies of a protein produced by a type of blue-green algae significantly improves its ability to fight HIV. (more…)

Science & Technology - Jul 29, 2011 14:27 - 1 Comment

Switch-up may lead to one-way sound

CALTECH (US) — A tunable diode that allows acoustic information to travel in one direction only may bring the concept of a true sound-proof room a step closer to reality. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Jul 28, 2011 15:31 - 0 Comments

Thinking before eating pays off

CALTECH (US) — Deciding between broccoli or super-sized fries gives the brain a workout, forcing it to weigh choices based on taste, healthiness, size, and even packaging, all more-or-less instantaneously. (more…)

Science & Technology - Jul 28, 2011 11:53 - 0 Comments

Imaging hat trick: Faster, sharper, deeper

CALTECH (US) — New technology could enhance in triplicate optical imaging of live biological samples by simultaneously improving resolution, penetration depth, and speed. (more…)

Science & Technology - Jul 25, 2011 16:12 - 0 Comments

Gargantuan, farthest water mass found

CALTECH/U. COLORADO (US) — A mass of water vapor in a quasar that is 30 billion trillion miles away is at least 140 trillion times that of all the water in the world’s oceans combined, and 100,000 times more massive than the sun. (more…)

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