Manipulating memory with light: Scientists erase specific memories in mice

Manipulating memory with light: Scientists erase specific memories in mice

  8:13:00 PM    Science Lover

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Just look into the light: not quite, but researchers at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience and Department of Psychology have used light to erase specific memories in mice, and proved a basic theory of how different parts of the brain work together to retrieve episodic...

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Incredibly light, strong materials recover original shape after being smashed

Incredibly light, strong materials recover original shape after being smashed

  4:10:00 PM    Science Lover

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Materials scientists have developed a method for creating new structural materials by taking advantage of the unusual properties that solids can have at the nanometer scale. They have used the method to produce a ceramic (e.g., a piece of chalk or a brick) that contains...

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20 Things You Didn't Know About... Time

20 Things You Didn't Know About... Time

  8:02:00 PM    Science Lover

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The beginning, the end, and the funny habits of our favorite ticking force. 1  “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so,” joked Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Scientists aren’t laughing, though. Some speculative new physics...

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Engineers build world's smallest, fastest nanomotor: Can fit inside a single cell

Engineers build world's smallest, fastest nanomotor: Can fit inside a single cell

  7:47:00 PM    Science Lover

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Researchers at the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have built the smallest, fastest and longest-running tiny synthetic motor to date. The team's nanomotor is an important step toward developing miniature machines that could one day...

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Sugar-powered biobattery has 10 times the energy storage of lithium: Your smartphone might soon run on enzymes

Sugar-powered biobattery has 10 times the energy storage of lithium: Your smartphone might soon run on enzymes

  7:33:00 PM    Science Lover

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As you probably know, from sucking down cans of Coke and masticating on candy, sugar — glucose, fructose, sucrose, dextrose — is an excellent source of energy. Biologically speaking, sugar molecules are energy-dense, easy to transport, and cheap to digest. There is a reason...

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Lithium-sulfur batteries last longer with nanomaterial-packed cathode

Lithium-sulfur batteries last longer with nanomaterial-packed cathode

  8:49:00 PM    Science Lover

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Electric vehicles could travel farther and more renewable energy could be stored with lithium-sulfur batteries that use a unique powdery nanomaterial. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory developed a nickel-based metal organic framework, shown here in...

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Aging Successfully Reversed in Mice; Human Trials to Begin Next

Aging Successfully Reversed in Mice; Human Trials to Begin Next

  7:41:00 PM    Science Lover

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Scientists have successfully reversed the aging process in mice according to a new study just released. Human trials are to begin next, possibly before the year is over. The study was published in the peer reviewed science journal Cell after researchers from both the...

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