Many forms of Western music make use of harmony, or the sound created by certain pairs of notes. A longstanding ...
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A focused approach to imaging neural activity in the brainA focused approach to imaging neural activity in the brain
When neurons fire an electrical impulse, they also experience a surge of calcium ions. By measuring those surges, researchers can ...
How cancer drugs find their targetsHow cancer drugs find their targets
In the watery inside of a cell, complex processes take place in tiny functional compartments called organelles. Energy-producing mitochondria are ...
Experimental peptide targets Covid-19Experimental peptide targets Covid-19
The research described in this article has been published on a preprint server but has not yet been peer-reviewed by ...
Research highlights immune molecule’s complex role in Huntington’s diseaseResearch highlights immune molecule’s complex role in Huntington’s disease
More than a decade before people with Huntington’s disease (HD) show symptoms, they can exhibit abnormally high levels of an ...
Engineers put tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses on a single chipEngineers put tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses on a single chip
MIT engineers have designed a “brain-on-a-chip,” smaller than a piece of confetti, that is made from tens of thousands of ...
A boost for cancer immunotherapyA boost for cancer immunotherapy
One promising strategy to treat cancer is stimulating the body’s own immune system to attack tumors. However, tumors are very ...
Machine learning helps map global ocean communitiesMachine learning helps map global ocean communities
On land, it’s fairly obvious where one ecological region ends and another begins, for instance at the boundary between a ...
Study: Reflecting sunlight to cool the planet will cause other global changesStudy: Reflecting sunlight to cool the planet will cause other global changes
How can the world combat the continued rise in global temperatures? How about shading the Earth from a portion of ...
Citizen scientists spot closest young brown dwarf disk yetCitizen scientists spot closest young brown dwarf disk yet
Brown dwarfs are the middle child of astronomy, too big to be a planet yet not big enough to be ...