Our brain has its own GPS and it helps us navigate by detecting the movements of the people around us. Vienna, Feb 02, 2023.- Grid cells not only help us navigate our own paths in a complex environment, but also help us analyse the movements of other people, scientists fromContinuar Leyendo
París, Feb 01, 2023.- Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) today makes its closest approach to Earth before likely leaving our Solar System forever. At billions of years old and not seen since Neanderthals roamed, the green comet continues to intrigue as it grows an apparent third tail and unexpectedly – butContinuar Leyendo
Large-scale Finnish biobank-based study discovers several new disease genes as well as insights into how known genetic factors affect disease. Cambridge, MA, January 30, 2023.- An international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Helsinki and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard examined the effects ofContinuar Leyendo
Researchers at the Spinoza Center have developed a method to look at the cerebellum in detail. Amsterdam, January 30, 2023.- The cerebellum, or our little brain, is mainly responsible for our motor skills. Furthermore, the structure is important for behavior and cognition. The cerebellum is a part of your brainContinuar Leyendo
By Heather Lindsey Weill Cornell Medicine Ithaca, NY, Jan 28, 2023.- The key to understanding how the most aggressive lymphomas arise and resist current therapies may lie in mutations that disrupt a critical natural selection process among antibody-producing B cells, according to a multi-institutional preclinical study led by Weill CornellContinuar Leyendo
A search for variable stars called RR Lyrae has found some of the most distant stars in the Milky Way’s halo a million light years away. By Tim Stephens Santa Cruz, CA, Jan 26, 2023.- Astronomers have discovered more than 200 distant variable stars known as RR Lyrae stars inContinuar Leyendo
Interstellar molecular clouds are considered to be the birth sites of planetary systems. With the help of the James Webb Space Telescope, an international research team including the Center for Space and Habitability (CSH) at the University of Bern and the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS discoveredContinuar Leyendo
Fractalkine appears to trigger repair of brain damage caused by the disease. Alberta, Jan 23, 2023.- A University of Alberta researcher is one step closer to demonstrating the potential of a brain molecule called fractalkine to halt and even reverse the effects of multiple sclerosis and other neurodegenerative diseases. MultipleContinuar Leyendo
An international research team including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena has discovered that the striking orange and black wings of monarch butterflies not only send the message to predators that these butterflies are highly toxic, but that the storage of toxins and development ofContinuar Leyendo
Portraying opposing views as equally valid stokes needless controversy, say researchers. Alberta, Jan 19, 2023.- When they launched their study, Timothy Caulfield and Marco Zenone could hardly have anticipated how the issue would capture headlines in Alberta. And yet they decided to examine how the common COVID-19 vaccination requirement for organContinuar Leyendo
