Terence ConnorsDiabetes Researchers found a cure for diabetes (in lab mice) TNW - Bryan ClarkMore than 34 million Americans have diabetes, approximately 10% of the population according to the American Diabetes Association. To date, the most common treatment has been to manage the disease with
Terence ConnorsThe Future Scientists believe billion-year-old seaweed fossils may be ancestors to modern land plants CNET - Amanda Kooser The ancient algae are the oldest green seaweeds ever found.
Terence ConnorsDark Matter This is how ESA telescope Euclid is going to visualize dark matter phys.org - Leiden University How can you see something that's invisible? Well, with Euclid! This future ESA telescope will map the structure of the universe and teach us more …
Terence ConnorsBiology Scientists discover first known animal that doesn't breathe Live Science - Brandon Specktor When the parasitic blob known as Henneguya salminicola sinks its spores into the flesh of a tasty fish, it does not hold its breath. That's because H. …
Terence ConnorsInnovation Ten Trends That Will Shape Science in the Decade Ahead smithsonianmag.com - Katherine J. Wu, Rachael Lallensack When the 2010s began, private spaceflight had barely gotten off the ground, Google was rolling out early personalized search results and CRISPR-Cas9 …
Terence Connors To Drive on the Moon, We'll Need Tough-as-Hell Tires Popular Mechanics - By Jennifer LemanIf you think driving on beach sand is bad, try rolling around on the moon. Lunar regolith, a mishmash of dust, rock, and other debris on the lunar surface, is one of the most significant challenges we
Terence Connors Eureka! Planet Finder validates Neptune-sized exoplanet - Futurity futurity.org - Sam Sholtis-Penn State Researchers using the Habitable-zone Planet Finder have validated that a signal the Kepler spacecraft originally detected is a sub-Neptune sized …
Terence Connors How interferometry works, and why it's so powerful for astronomy phys.org - Brian Koberlein When astronomers talk about an optical telescope, they often mention the size of its mirror. That's because the larger your mirror, the sharper your …
Terence ConnorsArtificial Intelligence Researchers Find 'Anonymized' Data Is Even Less Anonymous Than We Thought VICE - Karl BodeCorporations love to pretend that 'anonymization' of the data they collect protects consumers. Studies keep showing that’s not really true. Last fall, AdBlock Plus creator Wladimir Palant revealed that
Terence Connors 'Exceptional' black NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson dies at 101 Euronews - APKatherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA’s early space missions and was later portrayed in the 2016 hit film “Hidden Figures,” about pioneering black
Terence ConnorsScience Scientists create artificial genome that can reproduce futurism.com - Jon Christian German scientists say that for the first time ever, they’ve created a lab-grown artificial genome that can reproduce itself like a natural one. It’s …
Terence ConnorsScience Scientists predict state of matter that can conduct both electricity and energy perfectly phys.org - University of Chicago Three scientists from the University of Chicago have run the numbers, and they believe there may be a way to make a material that could conduct both …
Terence Connors Archaeologists discover lost city that may have conquered the kingdom of Midas phys.org - Louise Lerner Archaeologists from the Oriental Institute have discovered a lost ancient kingdom dating to 1400 B.C. to 600 B.C., which may have defeated Phrygia, …
Terence ConnorsScience Angkor Wat May Owe Its Existence to an Engineering Catastrophe smithsonianmag.com - Joshua Rapp Learn The empire controlled much of mainland Southeast Asia by the beginning of the 10th century A.D., but unclear rules of succession combined with a …
Terence Connors Tomb of Rome's mythical founder Romulus unearthed Live Science - Tom Metcalfe A tomb that was buried thousands of years ago and revered by ancient Romans as the resting place of their city's mythical founder Romulus has now …
Terence ConnorsQuantum Mechanics How the universe could possibly have more dimensions space.com - Paul Sutter String theory is a purported theory of everything that physicists hope will one day explain … everything. All the forces, all the particles, all the …
Terence ConnorsOxygen Scientists Found Breathable Oxygen in Another Galaxy for the First Time VICE - Becky FerreiraAstronomers have spotted molecular oxygen in a galaxy far far away, marking the first time that this important element has ever been detected outside of the Milky Way. This momentous “first detection extragalactic
Terence ConnorsNatural History This Carving Is Helping Archaeologists Unravel the Secrets of Ancient Scottish Warriors smithsonianmag.com - Brigit Katz In 2017, road workers in Perth, Scotland, stumbled upon a hulking stone lying about three feet belowground. Etched with the outline of a human figure …
Terence ConnorsTechnology A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘GitHub for data’ – TechCrunch TechCrunch - Zack WhittakerSix months ago or thereabouts, a group of engineers and developers with backgrounds from the National Security Agency, Google and Amazon Web Services had an idea. Data is valuable for helping developers
Terence ConnorsGene Expression Meta-analysis of honey bee neurogenomic response links Deformed wing virus type A to precocious behavioral maturation nature.com - Ian M. Traniello, Syed Abbas Bukhari, Jessica Kevill, Amy Cash Ahmed, Adam R. Hamilton, Nicholas L. Naeger, Declan C. Schroeder, Gene E. Robinson Crop pollination by the western honey bee Apis mellifera is vital to agriculture but threatened by alarmingly high levels of colony mortality, …
Terence ConnorsGear & Gadgets The New Horizons spacecraft just revealed secrets of the most distant object we’ve ever visited Popular Science - Charlie WoodWe’ve gained new insight into how the object came to be. Even as the New Horizons team celebrated their spacecraft’s historic flyby of Pluto in the summer of 2015, they anguished over where to turn the
Terence ConnorsScience ‘Radical Change’ Needed After Latest Neutron Star Collision | Quanta Magazine Quanta Magazine - Dana Najjar A recent neutron star merger has defied astronomers’ expectations, leading them to question longstanding ideas about neutron stars and the supernovas …
Terence ConnorsNews How much water does Jupiter really have? Here's what NASA's Juno mission found CNN - By Ashley Strickland, CNN(CNN) — When NASA's Galileo mission visited Jupiter in the 1990s and began its descent, the spacecraft's data was expected to solve a puzzle for scientists. They wanted to know how much water was present
Terence ConnorsNews Harvard Professor's Arrest Raises Questions About Scientific Openness NPR - Geoff BrumfielUntil late last month, Charles Lieber lived the quiet life of an elite American scientist. His lab at Harvard University researched things like how to meld tiny electronics with the brain. In his spare
Terence ConnorsMathematics Rainbow Proof Shows Graphs Have Uniform Parts Quanta Magazine - Kevin Hartnett Mathematicians have proved that copies of smaller graphs can always be used to perfectly cover larger ones. On January 8, three mathematicians posted …
Terence ConnorsAmerican Civil War The New Explosive Theory About What Doomed the Crew of the 'Hunley' smithsonianmag.com - Rachel Lance The dark hull of the submarine rose a few inches above the waterline. Pale moonlight glinted off the quiet ocean as small waves lapped against the …
Terence ConnorsAliens It's official: Search for ET must be taken seriously BBC News - Pallab GhoshThe head of one of the US's national observatories says the search for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe needs to be taken more seriously. Dr Anthony Beasley told the BBC that there should be
Terence ConnorsFitness Life cycles, fitness decoupling and the evolution of multicellularity nature.com - Katrin Hammerschmidt, Caroline J. Rose, Benjamin Kerr, Paul B. Rainey Cooperation is central to the emergence of multicellular life; however, the means by which the earliest collectives (groups of cells) maintained …
Terence ConnorsLife Sciences Thousands of Fossils Sit Forgotten in Museum Drawers. How one Paleontologist is Changing That discovermagazine.com - Lacy Schley Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science news Your local natural history museum probably displays its most impressive fossils front and …
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