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Cerealia Facula, a dome-like feature located in the center of Ceres’ Occator crater, is only 4 million years old — approximately 30 million years younger than the crater itself, according to research led by Dr. Andreas Nathues of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research. Cerealia Facula, a bright …

According to a research team led by scientists from IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, and the Institute of Basic Science in Seoul, South Korea, one bit of digital information can now be successfully stored in an individual atom. The research appears today in the journal Nature. The …

A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals the link between breeding season and the hormone melatonin, made in the pineal gland in the brain during long winter nights. Castle-Miller et al have discovered how animals link the change in seasons to their …

Hard drives and NAND flash memory can store a lot more data than they could just a few years ago, but they’ve still got nothing on DNA. The genetic material in nearly every cell of your body has a vastly higher storage capacity than a hard drive, and it could …

A team of researchers at Northwestern University has discovered a type of retinal ganglion cell that may cause myopia when it dysfunctions. The study is published in the journal Current Biology. This image shows an ON Delayed retinal ganglion cell. Image credit: Adam Mani Gregory W. Schwartz, Northwestern University. This …

A team of researchers at the College of Science at George Mason University has detected 48 antimicrobial peptides in the blood plasma of Komodo dragons (Varanus komodoensis), the largest living lizards. The discovery could lead to the development of new drugs capable of combating antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The Komodo dragon (Varanus …

Using mid-infrared data from the 8.2-m Subaru Telescope, a research team led by Dr. Hideaki Fujiwara, Subaru scientist at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, has measured the brightness and temperatures of Saturn’s main rings. This is a three-color composite image of Saturn and its rings taken January 23, 2008 …

Dr. Mary Bourke from Trinity College Dublin and University of Oxford Professor Heather Viles have discovered a patch of land in an equatorial crater on Mars that appears to have been flooded by large volumes of water in the planet’s past. A large pit valley in Lucaya crater, Mars: (a) …

Eighty-three height-associated genetic variants have been discovered in a large-scale study led by researchers from Queen Mary University of London, Montreal Heart Institute, the Broad Institute and the University of Exeter. The research appears today in the journal Nature. Eirini Marouli et al report 83 height-associated coding variants with lower …

Researchers have been chasing the dream of metallic hydrogen for decades, ever since the material was first theorized by Princeton University scientists Eugene Wigner and Hillard Bell Huntington in 1935. If it exists, metallic hydrogen could fundamentally transform the way we used energy. Now, two scientists claim they’ve successfully created …