deepai Gravity feels reliable — stable and consistent enough to count on. But reality is far stranger than our intuition. In truth, the strength of gravity varies over the Earth’s surface. And it is weakest…
Scientists Discover New Technology Breakthrough in Fighting Viral…
IBM Research and Singapore’s Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology Announce New Macromolecule with Triple-Play Action to Help Fight Virus Infection and Drug Resistance. [caption id="attachment_8823" align="alignright" width="300"] The researchers who developed the new anti-viral macromolecule…
Root-zone soil moisture May 2016
[caption id="attachment_8818" align="alignnone" width="700"] ESA/Cesbio[/caption] ESA’s SMOS mission was launched in 2009 to provide global observations of soil moisture and ocean salinity – two important variables in Earth’s water cycle. While this novel Earth Explorer…
Gene regulatory mutation linked to rare childhood cancer
[caption id="attachment_8814" align="alignright" width="267"] Peter Lewis[/caption] A single defect in a gene that codes for a histone — a “spool” that wraps idle DNA — is linked to pediatric cancers in a study published in…
NASA’s Kepler Mission Announces Largest Collection of Planets…
[caption id="attachment_8811" align="alignnone" width="985"] This artist's concept depicts select planetary discoveries made to date by NASA's Kepler space telescope.Credits: NASA/W. Stenzel[/caption] NASA's Kepler mission has verified 1,284 new planets – the single largest finding of…