A research paper published in Science Advances has made new strides into the world of dynamic visualization of biological phenomena in cells. The study involved a new microscopy technique to label and observe live cells in order to record over time the interactions between DNA and proteins within the cells. An interdisciplinary team worked on a new and unique approach towards the visualization of the process within the cell that is used to make proteins from DNA. DNA contains crucial information about the makeup of an organism. DNA contains the code that enables replication of necessary proteins in most life…
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Aishwarya is a physicist and research enthusiast with a passion for content writing. She takes great enjoyment in her research, and spends her free time reading Sci-Fi novels, or learning about the world and just exploring the vast cosmos of science that she can access. Aishwarya hopes to turn her passion for content writing into a career in science communication and outreach where she can make a tangible difference in the world, with added motivation to pursue astronomy as an amateur if not as an SME.
The Russian Section of the International Space Station has suffered another coolant leak, for the third time in less than a year. This has caused concerns about the integrity of the agency’s space program. The leak caused observable snow-flakes of coolant to fly off of the facility, as observed in the NASA Livestream. Roscosmos has issued a statement assuring that the leak has not caused any danger to the crew or the station. Cause of the Leak – still unclear Russian Space Agency – Roscosmos said that the coolant leak occurred in the external backup system of the radiator circuit…
As our world gets more and more connected through telecommunications, the impact caused by the satellites launched for this feat are getting more and more serious. Large collections of satellite-constellations of placed in low earth orbit pose difficulty to visual based astronomy. A study coordinated by aerospace engineer Siegfried Eggl, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign showed that the BlueWalker 3 – recently launched by AST Mobile – appears brighter than the brightest stars to the naked eye, and has hence become the brightest objects in the night sky. A video taken by Marco Langbroek, Delft Technical University shows the AST Mobile…
Assembly theory proposed in the article titled “Assembly Theory Explains and Quantifies Selection and Evolution,” was published in the Journal Nature, unifying Physics and Biology. This theory provides a theoretical framework to discuss the emergence of evolution and complexity as seen in nature today by providing a new viewpoint that addresses life through both theoretical physics as well as the theories of evolution and natural selection. Typically, biology approaches life and evolution in terms of the Darwinian idea of ‘natural selection’ where evolution of complex life from simpler ones as well as development of certain traits to forward the chain…
The Nobel Prize Chemistry for 2023 has been awarded to Scientists Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.” The Nobel Prize Chemistry announcement has followed that of the Physics award for attosecond physics and Medicine award for mRNA vaccine technology that were announced earlier this week. The Laureates for this year’s Nobel Prize Chemistry include Alexei Ekimov, the Chief Scientist at Nanocrystals Technology Inc, Louis Brus professor at Columbia University, and Moungi Bawendi, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. Nobel Prize Chemistry Winners Leaked before Announcement Despite being…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has picked up signals of Venus’ debated ‘lightning’. This data was collected by the probe in 2021, when Parker made a routine flyby of Venus while it was trying to use Venus’ gravity to propel itself, to adjust its orbit in order to make closer flybys of the sun. Venus gravity assists are necessary for the Parker Solar Probe to get closer and closer to the Sun, so it can collect data from the Sun’s corona, the closest we have ever gotten to the Sun yet. As the spacecraft nears the Sun, it needs to reduce…
The Nobel Prize winners for 2023 in Physiology and Medicine are biochemist Katalin Karikó and immunologist Drew Weissman “for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.” The technology was being experimented on even before the pandemic, without the scientists knowing truly how important the technology would turn out to be in saving lives now that millions of people around the world have been vaccinated thanks to it and have possibly been protected from serious implications that a COVID-19 infection could otherwise cause. Karikó is also proud to be the 13th female…
The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2023 has been awarded to ‘Attophysics’ Scientists – Pierre Agostini at Ohio State University, US, Ferenc Krausz at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, and Anne L’Huillier at Lund University, Sweden for “experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter,” announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. They will be awarded a prize money of 11 million Swedish krona, which is around 1 million US Dollars. Earlier, Hungarian scientist Katalin Kariko and U.S. colleague Drew Weissman were announced the Nobel Prize…
A paper on Superconductors earlier in March 2023, published in the reputed journal Nature, claimed to have created an unbelievable sounding room temperature Superconductive material. This claim drew attention of the scientific community as a material like this could basically revolutionize technology, making fast moving trains, lossless electrical grids and improving medical technology such as MRI. Many scientists mused on the possibilities that such a material could offer. However, when scientists attempted to reproduce these results, their observations told a whole new tale. Months later, eight of the ten co-authors have submitted a letter to the journal Nature bravely speaking…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has caught its remnant wisps continuing to race into space giving us astonishingly beautiful visuals from a star that exploded 20,000 years ago, . Originally discovered by William Herschel in 1784, the Cygnus Loop is a 120 light-year wide bubble-like shaped nebulous area, located in the constellation Cygnus that is approximately 2,600 light-years away from us. Let’s take a look at what makes these images so special. The Mesmerizing Visuals of the Cygnus Loop NASA Astronomers used the Hubble Space telescope to zoom right into a very small area of this expanding bubble, where the blast…
