More than 7,000 miles away from the snowcapped peaks of PyeongChang, scientists in Florida have unlocked a novel strategy for synthesizing a highly versatile molecule called olympicene — a compound …read more Source:: Science
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Molecular mechanisms crucial for new approach to heart disease therapy mapped
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•Scientists have reprogrammed ordinary cells called fibroblasts into new and healthy heart muscle cells, and recorded changes that appear to be necessary for this reprogramming. …read more Source:: Science
Cold region ‘tipping point’ now inevitable
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•The decline of cold regions called periglacial zones is now inevitable due to climate change, researchers say. …read more Source:: Science
Lost ecosystem found buried in mud of southern California coastal waters
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•Paleontologists investigating the sea bed off California have discovered a lost ecosystem that for thousands of years had nurtured communities of scallops and shelled marine organisms called brachiopods. They had …read more Source:: Science
Revolutions in understanding the ionosphere, Earth’s interface to space
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•Far above Earth’s surface is a sea of particles that have been split into positive and negative ions by the suns harsh ultraviolet radiation called the ionosphere — this is …read more Source:: Science
Odd ancient lizard-like reptile called earliest-known turtle
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•WASHINGTON (Reuters) – It was a creature that one scientist said resembled “a strange, gluttonous lizard that swallowed a small Frisbee.” …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
The future of travel? A tube called Hyperloop
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•When asked to imagine the future of transportation, most might draw a car of the future, perhaps solar powered and autonomously driven. …read more Source:: UKScienceNews