Brainstem, Spinal Cord Images Hidden in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco

Brainstem, Spinal Cord Images Hidden in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco

  10:50:00 AM    Science Lover

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Michelangelo, the 16th century master painter and accomplished anatomist, appears to have hidden an image of the brainstem and spinal cord in a depiction of God in the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers reports. These findings by a neurosurgeon...

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Artificially Controlling Water Condensation Leads to 'Room-Temperature Ice'

Artificially Controlling Water Condensation Leads to 'Room-Temperature Ice'

  6:47:00 PM    Science Lover

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Earth's climate is strongly influenced by the presence of particles of different shapes and origins -- in the form of dust, ice and pollutants -- that find their way into the lowest portion of the atmosphere, the troposphere. There, water adsorbed on the surface of these...

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New Drug Delivery Technique: Nanoblasts from Laser-Activated Nanoparticles Move Molecules, Proteins and DNA Into Cells

New Drug Delivery Technique: Nanoblasts from Laser-Activated Nanoparticles Move Molecules, Proteins and DNA Into Cells

  2:39:00 PM    Science Lover

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Using chemical "nanoblasts" that punch tiny holes in the protective membranes of cells, researchers have demonstrated a new technique for getting therapeutic small molecules, proteins and DNA directly into living cells. A field of human prostate cancer cells is shown...

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Multifunctional Nanoparticle Enables New Type of Biological Imaging

Multifunctional Nanoparticle Enables New Type of Biological Imaging

  12:30:00 PM    Science Lover

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Spotting a single cancerous cell that has broken free from a tumor and is traveling through the bloodstream to colonize a new organ might seem like finding a needle in a haystack. But a new imaging technique from the University of Washington is a first step toward making...

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Remembering to Forget: The Amnesic Effect of Daydreaming

Remembering to Forget: The Amnesic Effect of Daydreaming

  11:25:00 AM    Science Lover

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When your mind drifts, it's hard to remember what was going on before you stopped paying attention. Now a new study has found that the effect is stronger when your mind drifts farther -- to memories of an overseas vacation instead of a domestic trip, for example, or a memory...

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Invention Enables People With Disabilities Communicate and Steer a Wheelchair by Sniffing

Invention Enables People With Disabilities Communicate and Steer a Wheelchair by Sniffing

  9:21:00 AM    Science Lover

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A unique device based on sniffing -- inhaling and exhaling through the nose -- might enable numerous disabled people to navigate wheelchairs or communicate with their loved ones. Sniffing technology might even be used in the future to create a sort of 'third hand,' to assist...

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Asteroid Might Hit Earth in 2182

Asteroid Might Hit Earth in 2182

  8:59:00 PM    Science Lover

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The potentially hazardous asteroid '(101955) 1999 RQ36' has a one-in-a-thousand chance of impacting the Earth, and more than half of this probability indicates that this could happen in the year 2182, based on a global study in which Spanish researchers have been involved....

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Largest Particle Accelerator 'Rediscovers' Fundamental Subatomic Particles

Largest Particle Accelerator 'Rediscovers' Fundamental Subatomic Particles

  10:33:00 AM    Science Lover

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The world's largest particle accelerator -- Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) -- has yielded its first measurements of fundamental subatomic particles, so far confirming physicists' Standard Model but also paving the way to future discoveries that may offer new insights...

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A Plane That Lands Like a Bird

A Plane That Lands Like a Bird

  6:22:00 AM    Science Lover

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Everyone knows what it's like for an airplane to land: the slow maneuvering into an approach pattern, the long descent, and the brakes slamming on as soon as the plane touches down, which seems to just barely bring it to a rest a mile later. Birds, however, can switch from...

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New Generation of Superplastics

New Generation of Superplastics

  1:20:00 AM    Science Lover

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Scientists are reporting an in-depth validation of the discovery of the world's first mass producible, low-cost, organoclays for plastics. The powdered material, made from natural clay, would be a safer, more environmentally friendly replacement for the compound widely...

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Nanowick at Heart of New System to Cool 'Power Electronics'

Nanowick at Heart of New System to Cool 'Power Electronics'

  6:07:00 PM    Science Lover

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Researchers have shown that an advanced cooling technology being developed for high-power electronics in military and automotive systems is capable of handling roughly 10 times the heat generated by conventional computer chips. This is a test facility for nanowicks. (Credit:...

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Graphene Organic Photovoltaics: Flexible Material Only a Few Atoms Thick May Offer Cheap Solar Power

Graphene Organic Photovoltaics: Flexible Material Only a Few Atoms Thick May Offer Cheap Solar Power

  2:39:00 AM    Science Lover

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A University of Southern California team has produced flexible transparent carbon atom films that the researchers say have great potential for a new breed of solar cells. A flow of methane and hydrogen gas mixture deposits carbon atoms as graphene on a nickel plate. The...

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