ESA's Planetary Defence team The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved the naming of ten asteroids – and one comet – after people and places linked to the European Space Agency’s (ESA) efforts to protect…
Detecting mutations could lead to earlier liver cancer…
New technique can reveal exposure to aflatoxin, a potent carcinogen, before tumors develop. [caption id="attachment_11835" align="alignnone" width="639"] Research scientist Bogdan Fedeles and postdoc Supawadee Chawanthayatham have discovered a mutational signature that reveals liver cell exposure…
Quadruped robot exhibits spontaneous changes in step with…
The research group of Professor Akio Ishiguro and Assistant Professor Dai Owaki of Tohoku University have, for the first time, successfully demonstrated that by changing only its parameter related to speed, a quadruped robot can…
Supersonic plasma jets discovered
[caption id="attachment_11826" align="alignnone" width="618"] Birkeland currents[/caption] Information from ESA’s magnetic field Swarm mission has led to the discovery of supersonic plasma jets high up in our atmosphere that can push temperatures up to almost 10…
Membrane lipids hop in and out of rafts…
New fluorescent lipids demonstrate how specialized regions in the cell membrane function. [caption id="attachment_11821" align="alignnone" width="632"] Typical image sequences (every 33 milliseconds) of a raft domain undergoing signaling (green) and a sphingomyelin analog (red). The…