All Successful Writers Have These 5 Unique Traits

Nevertheless, it is true that some people are going to cut it and others are not.

Microglia, cells thought restricted to central nervous system, are redefined in new study

Inside the central nervous system (CNS), a region that includes the brain and spinal cord, it is the job of certain cells, called microglia, to clean up that cellular debris.

Robots to autocomplete Soldier tasks

New research published in Science Advances today looks at Soldier brain activity during specific tasks for ways to incorporate AI teaming to dynamically complete tasks..

Solar wind: And the blobs just keep on coming

Di Matteo was looking for long trains of massive blobs -- like a lava lamp's otherworldly bubbles, but anywhere from 50 to 500 times the size of Earth -- in the solar wind..

Calculating temperature inside moon to help reveal its inner structure

She found the temperature to be between 1,300 and 1,470 degrees Celsius, which is at the high end of an 800 degree range that previous scientists had determined.

Optical tweezers achieve new feats of capturing atoms

In a new study, a team led by physicist Cindy Regal showed that it could organize groups of individual atoms into large grids with an efficiency unmatched by existing methods.

Squeezed nanocrystals: A new model predicts their shape when blanketed under graphene

Ames Laboratory scientist are experts in 2D materials, and recently discovered a first-of-its-kind copper and graphite combination, produced by depositing copper on ion-bombarded graphite at high temperature and in an ultra-high vacuum environment. This produced a distribution of copper islands, embedded under an ultra-thin "blanket" consisting of a few layers

Researchers uncover additional evidence for massive solar storms

For the past 70 years, researchers have studied these solar storms by direct instrumental observations, which has led to an understanding of how they can pose a risk to the electrical grid, various communication systems, satellites and air traffic. Two examples of severe solar storms in modern times that caused

'Molecular surgery' reshapes living tissue with electricity but no incisions

The researchers will present their results today at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring 2019 National Meeting Exposition.

Few pathways to an acceptable climate future without immediate action

By adapting a popular computational climate change assessment model to better account for uncertainties in human activity and the atmosphere's sensitivity to carbon dioxide levels, the researchers created a novel method for exploring the consequences of different climate change futures to better inform policy decisions. The work is detailed in

Associating colors with vowels? Almost all of us do!

For the writer Vladimir Nabokov, "aa" was the colour of polished ebony and "ee" was yellow.Nabokov had synaesthesia: his sensory perceptions mingled with one another.

Scientists are first to observe, image all-important molecular vibrations: Using light focused to size of an atom, they push resolution of microscopy to new level

In a study published today in Nature, researchers at UCI's Center for Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit describe how they positioned the atomically terminated silver tip of a scanning tunneling microscope mere ängstroms from its target: a cobalt-based porphyrin molecule affixed to a copper platform. (Porphyrins are of biological

Just 20 minutes of contact with nature will lower stress hormone levels, reveals new study

"We know that spending time in nature reduces stress, but until now it was unclear how much is enough, how often to do it, or even what kind of nature experience will benefit us," says Dr.

Blocking protein's activity restores cognition in old mice

A paper describing the finding will be published online April 3 in Nature.Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD, professor of neurology and neurological sciences, is the senior author..

Jurassic crocodile discovery sheds light on reptiles' family tree

The ancestor of today's crocodiles belonged to a group of animals that developed a tail fin and paddle-like limbs for life in the sea, resembling dolphins more than crocodiles..