KATHMANDU, March 20 — The American Physical Society’s (APS) Global Physics Summit wrapped up in Nepal on Thursday, bringing together scientists, researchers and policymakers to discuss advances in physics and their role in addressing global…
Chicken Flu Evolution Yields Insight into Origins of…
An international research team has shown how changes in a flu virus that has plagued Chinese poultry farms for decades helped create the novel avian H7N9 influenza, a virus that has sickened more than 375 people…
The sun exploring as fire from an ice…
This is one of the amazing image of the sun exploring the colored and sparkling stuff that one has ever watched. The reddish stuff may look familiar. That’s material in the Sun’s atmosphere, or corona, as…
Researchers: IMF Policies Hindered Ebola Response
Professors from three leading British universities say International Monetary Fund policies favoring international debt repayment over social spending contributed to the Ebola crisis by hampering health care in the three worst-hit West African countries. Conditions…
Using Light to Produce Natural Sleep Patterns
[caption id="attachment_1908" align="alignright" width="300"] Confocal images show expression of the neurotransmitter, acetylcholine (red), and the light sensitive ion channel, channelrhodopsin (Chr2) (green). The merged images (far right) show neurons expressing both acetylcholine and ChR2 (yellow).…