News Archive for October 2013

Waiting Room - Employment Office by Theresa Bernstein, 1917, oil on canvas. Image credit: The Jewish Museum, New York.

Waiting Makes Us More Patient, New Study Suggests

Oct 2, 2013 by News Staff

Waiting actually does make people more patient, which can provide a payoff for consumers by helping them make better decisions, according to Dr Ayelet...

This image shows a 240-million-year-old pollen grain from northern Switzerland, scale bar - 10 μm. Image credit: Hochuli PA and Feist-Burkhardt S.

Flowering Plants May Have Originated Earlier than Previously Thought

Oct 2, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Well-preserved fossilized pollen grains found in northern Switzerland provide evidence that flowering plants may have originated in the early Triassic...

Propylene: Ingredient of Household Plastic Detected in Atmosphere of Saturn’s Moon Titan

Oct 2, 2013 by News Staff

Planetary scientists using the Composite InfRared Spectrometer aboard NASA/ESA’s Cassini spacecraft have detected propylene in the lower atmosphere...

This image shows a structural model of a chromosome from a white blood cell. Image credit: University of Cambridge.

Novel Method Reveals 3D Structure of Chromosomes

Oct 1, 2013 by News Staff

A team of scientists led by Dr Peter Fraser from the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, UK, has developed a new method to determine the 3D structures of...

Deep Lake, Antarctica. Image credit: © Rob 'Angry' Cullen.

Gene-Shuffling Microbes Found in Deep Lake, Antarctica

Oct 1, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of scientists reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has for the first time been able to get a complete...

Acute brain slice: thin brain slices allow the selective study of a neural circuit in isolation not possible in intact organism; here one can also selectively manipulate the conditions and observe their specific effect. Image credit: Bhuminder Singh.

Future of Neurophysiology: to Slice or not to Slice?

Oct 1, 2013 by Bhuminder Singh

We would like to think that scientific efforts are free of trends and human whims and proceed in a straight line for the good of humanity; but this is...

This artist's rendering shows the gas giant Kepler-7b, left, and Jupiter, right. The cloud map shows that clouds cover the western side of the gaseous planet, leaving the east cloud-free. Dr Demory and his colleagues speculate the clouds are made up of minerals containing silicates. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MIT.

Kepler-7b: Astronomers Create Cloud Map of Jupiter-Like Exoplanet

Oct 1, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers using data from two space telescopes have created the first cloud map of a hot gas giant called Kepler-7b. This artist’s rendering shows...

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