Study reveals 10,000 years of genetic continuity in northwest North America
Researchers are analyzing DNA from ancient individuals found in southeast Alaska, coastal British Columbia, Washington state and Montana. A new genetic analysis of some of these human remains finds that many of today’s indigenous peoples living in the same regions are descendants of ancient individuals dating to at least 10,300 years ago. Credit: Julie McMahon
Mysterious cosmic explosion surprises astronomers studying the distant x-ray universe
Animation showing the variability of the discovered flaring X-ray source. The intensity of the source increased more than 1000 times and then declined to invisibility over a period of a few hours. CREDIT: NASA/CXC/F. Bauer et al.
Speeding Star Gives New Clues to Breakup of Multi-Star System
Scale and Compass Image for the Orion Nebula -- Credit: NASA, ESA, and STSci
“CosmoQuest: You can help discover our universe" is the Friedman Lecture on March 28, 2017
Pamela Gay
2016/2017 Marker Lectures in the Mathematical Sciences scheduled for March 21, 22, and 23
Avi Wigderson
Discovery rewriting the evolutionary history of the nervous system
A whole Drosophila larva expressing a fluorescent protein (red) in a subset of its sensory neurons. Credit: Melissa Rolls, Penn State.
Gates Foundation grant boosts malaria research program: Supplemental $4.7 million will aid drug development to accelerate malaria eradication
A false-color electron micrograph of the malaria-causing Plasmodium parasite infecting a mosquito. Image courtesy of Margaret Shear, Wikipedia
$2.35 million grant enables better prediction of infectious disease outbreaks
Next-generation dark matter detector in a race to finish line: Mile-deep U.S.-based experiment is on a fast track to help solve science mystery
Assistant Professor of Physics Luiz de Viveiros and the LUX detector inside the water tank just before it was filled with 72,000 gallons of ultra-purified water, which helps to shield it from cosmic rays and other radiation that would interfere with a dark matter signal. LUX was removed in 2016, and the tank will be used to house the LUX-ZEPLIN detector. Credit: Matt Kapust, Sanford Underground Research Facility
Free public lecture on February 25: "Marine Mammals as Health Sentinels for Oceans and Us"
Gregory Bossart
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