Category: 7. Science

ITHACA, N.Y. — Every time we speak, we’re improvising.

“Humans possess a remarkable ability to talk about almost anything, sometimes putting words together into never-before-spoken or -written sentences,” said Morten H. Christiansen ,…

Researchers at Princeton University have built a swarm of interconnected mini-robots that “bloom” like flowers in response to changing light levels in an office. According to their new…

Earlier this week, the Sun unleashed a powerful X-class solar flare, a major burst of electromagnetically charged particles that lit up the Earth’s night sky as they entered our planet’s atmosphere.

The effect was stunning: a dazzling…

New sungrazing comet inbound

There’s a new comet headed into the inner solar system, and it will make an extremely close pass…

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a stunning time-lapse of a trio of solar eruptions exploding into space from the sun during an “artificial eclipse.” The unique footage, captured by the newly operational Proba-3 mission, could help…

Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ) regulates gene expression programs that influence cellular differentiation and insulin sensitization in response to ligand binding. The discovery in 1995 that PPARγ is a molecular…