Category: Science

Normal cells (red) survive much longer than Set1A-mutant cells (green) when ING5 is deleted. Credit: Northwestern University Northwestern Medicine scientists have identified critical regulatory processes that govern differentiation in embryonic...

MIT professor of physics Richard Milner, Jefferson Laboratory physicists Rolf Ent and Rik Yoshida, MIT documentary filmmakers Chris Boebel and Joe McMaster, and Sputnik Animation’s James LaPlante have teamed up...

Analytical framework to derive major deforestation frontiers in the world’s tropical dry woodlands. Credit: Nature Sustainability (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41893-022-00886-9 Dry tropical forests are important ecosystems, yet these forests are increasingly...

Revalorization of N2O as O source in the catalytic synthesis of phenols. Scope of aryl iodides. [N2], N2 detected by a gas chromatography–thermal conductivity detector at the end of the reaction....

Percent of Chicago households with Internet access, by community area. Data sources: American Community Survey (2015–2019) and City of Chicago Data Portal. Credit: University of Chicago Data Science InstituteIn an...

A new study shows that compared to native-born citizens, immigrants are more frequently involved in founding companies at all scales. Credit: Christine Daniloff, MITCompared to native-born American citizens, immigrants are...

Elliptical galaxy NGC 4150. Credit: NASA, ESA, R.M. Crockett (University of Oxford, U.K.), S. Kaviraj (Imperial College London and University of Oxford, U.K.), J. Silk (University of Oxford), M. Mutchler...

Researchers found phospholipids to be essential in epithelial cell adhesion.Phosphatidylinositol bisphosphate (PIP2), a phospholipid, is essential for epithelial cell-cell adhesion and maintaining cellular identity.Body cells in multicellular organisms adhere to...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A strong earthquake shook seas between eastern Taiwan and southwestern Japan on Monday, but authorities said there was no danger of a tsunami. Light shaking was...

Learn more about the best-known black hole systems in our galaxy and its neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and Scientific Visualization StudioThis visualization shows...