Category: 7. Science

An innovative three-color method for capturing images of mRNA inside live mammalian cells has been developed by UMass Amherst chemists. Because RNA is both incredibly important to human life and health and poorly understood, the…

It’s now become easier to forecast the next eruption of Alaska’s Bogoslof volcano.

New research led by Pavel Izbekov, a volcanologist at the Alaska Volcano Observatory, is applying the foundations of diffusion chronometry—the…

Source: AGU Advances

Earth system models offer insight into how climate change will affect communities. But residents of those communities are rarely consulted on the design and deployment of these models, which can lead to the models…

Sequencing data characterisation

A total of 1,695,573 ITS1 amplicon sequence reads were obtained from 27 samples, with an average of 62,799 reads per sample. After quality control using the EasyAmplicon pipeline, an average of 61,425 clean reads…

The Lyrids’ radiant, the constellation Hercules, rises well before midnight, so meteors are visible all night, but are most likely to be seen just before dawn, when the radiant reaches its highest point in the sky.

The Eta Aquariids (May)

The Eta…

Scientists in a record-breaking discovery have found a hidden star in a region…

When a bird spots a predator and casts an alarm, does it just react reflexively, or is it actually communicating a precise mental image of danger? New research from neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley, suggests the answer is…