Gene Leads to Longer Shelf Life for Tomatoes

Gene Leads to Longer Shelf Life for Tomatoes

  6:03:00 PM    Science Lover

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A Purdue University researcher has found a sort of fountain of youth for tomatoes that extends their shelf life by about a week. The tomato with increased spermidine (top)  stays fresh longer than those that do not have  an increased level of the natural organic  compound....

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World First for Quantum Memory Storage

World First for Quantum Memory Storage

  1:52:00 AM    Science Lover

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An Australian National University-led team has developed the most efficient quantum memory for light in the world, taking us closer to a future of super-fast computers and communication secured by the laws of physics. Light passes through the crystal in the quantum memory  experiment....

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NASA infrared imagery shows well-defined eye in Category 5 Celia

NASA infrared imagery shows well-defined eye in Category 5 Celia

  12:35:00 AM    Science Lover

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Celia has exploded into a monster hurricane in the Eastern Pacific, and is now a Category 5 storm over open waters. NASA's Aqua satellite captured an infrared image (that shows temperature) of Celia's clouds and clearly shows an eye in the storm. Celia's eye appears well-defined...

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Computer Program Detects Depression in Bloggers' Texts

Computer Program Detects Depression in Bloggers' Texts

  12:55:00 PM    Science Lover

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Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) developed a software program that can detect depression in blogs and online texts. The software is capable of identifying language that can indicate the writer's psychological state, which could serve as a screening...

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Cosmic Clocks Could Help Uncover Ripples in Space-Time

Cosmic Clocks Could Help Uncover Ripples in Space-Time

  1:43:00 AM    Science Lover

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An international team of scientists have developed a promising new technique which could turn pulsars -- superb natural cosmic clocks -- into even more accurate time-keepers. Pulsars appear to be able to switch between two  states which differ in the current of charged  particles...

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Neuroscientists Can Predict Your Behavior

Neuroscientists Can Predict Your Behavior

  10:22:00 AM    Science Lover

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In a study with implications for the advertising industry and public health organizations, UCLA neuroscientists have shown they can use brain scanning to predict whether people will use sunscreen during a one-week period even better than the people themselves can. Precuneus...

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New A/C System Could Slash Energy Bills

New A/C System Could Slash Energy Bills

  1:27:00 AM    Science Lover

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Ah, the cool, refreshing feel of air conditioning on a sweltering summer day. NREL senior engineer Eric Kozubal examines a prototype air flow channel of the DEVap air conditioner, which he co-invented. DEVap, which stands for desiccant-enhanced evaporative air conditioner,...

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Battery Power Capacity Boost from Nanotubes?

Battery Power Capacity Boost from Nanotubes?

  8:24:00 PM    Science Lover

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Batteries might gain a boost in power capacity as a result of a new finding from researchers at MIT. They found that using carbon nanotubes for one of the battery's electrodes produced a significant increase -- up to tenfold -- in the amount of power it could deliver from...

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Gene Therapy Reverses Type 1 Diabetes in Mice

Gene Therapy Reverses Type 1 Diabetes in Mice

  9:35:00 PM    Science Lover

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Researchers have developed an experimental cure for Type 1 diabetes, a disease that affects about one in every 400 to 600 children and adolescents. In a new study using gene therapy in mice, researchers  say they have developed an experimental cure for  Type...

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Fly Cells Flock Together, Follow the Light

Fly Cells Flock Together, Follow the Light

  12:52:00 AM    Science Lover

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Scientists at Johns Hopkins report using a laser beam to activate a protein that makes a cluster of fruit fly cells act like a school of fish turning in social unison, following the lead of the one stimulated with light. Still image from a video clip showing a photo-activatable  form...

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