It would be an ugly experience to see our world through the eyes of a migratory bird. Something about their visual system allows them to ‘see’ our planet’s magnetic field, a clever trick of quantum physics and biochemistry that helps them find vast distances. Now, for the first time, scientists …
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Apple Pal Inc. China is booting thousands of videogame applications from its platform as the government tightens its grip on such content, highlighting the state-of-the-art technology company’s weakness on its business. The iPhone maker warned Chinese developers earlier this month that, according to a memo seen by the Wall Street …
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Improving the efficiency of solar cells can make a big difference in the amount of energy from the same surface area and the same amount of sunshine, and has beaten another world record in the pressure to produce more. Researchers have now reached 29.15 percent efficiency in the Perovskite / …
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Even though we think about the cells and organelles inside us that map them so well, it seems like there are still some surprises in store. A team of researchers has just published a paper describing the amazing structure that exists in an organelle – hidden from plain sight for …
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Every time a cell inside your body mimics, a part of your youth is eroded by dirt. This telomeres are caused by shortening of the structures that ‘cap’ the tips of our chromosomes. Now, Israeli scientists say they have been able to counteract this process and lengthen telomeres in a …
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