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…
Catching Cassini’s call
[caption id="attachment_11231" align="alignnone" width="700"] Above Saturn[/caption] This week, ESA deep-space radio dishes on two continents are listening for signals from the international Cassini spacecraft, now on its final tour of Saturn. ESA’s sensitive tracking antennas…
Former UW geneticist, Nobel laureate Smithies dies
[caption id="attachment_11221" align="alignnone" width="635"] Oliver Smithies, the biologist whose gene altering techniques revolutionized modern genetics, scours a notebook in this recent photo. Smithies, who died Tuesday after a short illness, was a member of the…
Processing speed training can improve cognitive ability and…
Researchers at Tohoku University have developed a new Processing Speed Training Game (PSTG) using a Tablet PC, which they say can significantly improve processing speed and inhibition among healthy older adults, while also reducing their…
Sticking to the story at the molecular level
Molecular insight into protein net charge may explain and help solve the harmful build-up of organisms in the marine environment. [caption id="attachment_11213" align="alignright" width="300"] AFM image of Cyprid barnacle larva footprint protein (left) and microscope…