BOOK REVIEW: DARK INTELLIGENCE / AUTHOR: NEAL ASHER / PUBLISHER: TOR / RELEASE DATE: OUT NOW Neal Asher is one of those well known sci-fi authors who has produced a whole range of novels set in the same world, known as The P...

Hardboiled, fast-paced, mind-bending fun –Dark Intelligence IS sci-fi Neal Asher’s latest Polity universe novel doesn’t disappoint It’s not easy to come in cold on something like Neal Asher’s Polity universe, a hard sci...

Today's blog post features a study in which an infestation at an aquarium allowed a group of scientists to work out the life cycle of a common parasite. Now, we are not talking about your lounge room fish tank, but the bigges...

So, I turned up at the offices of Macmillan at about 12.20. I was a bit early but didn’t fancy mooching about the streets of London until it was time because it was bloody cold. After I’d signed in and sat down Louise Buckley...

A new Princeton University study has identified more than 750 genes involved in long-term memory in the worm — part of research aimed at finding ways to retain cognitive abilities during aging, including compounds. The new study, published in the journal Neuron, included many genes that had not been found previously and that could serve as targets for future research, said senior author Coleen Murphy, an associate professor of molecular biology a...

As cancer diagnostic tools, a new class of imagers – which combines positron-emission tomography (PET) with magnetic resonance imaging (MR or MRI) – has shown promise in the few years since these hybrid machines have been commercially available. But to thoroughly assess PET-MR scanners' clinical ...

(Phys.org)—Nanophotonics, which takes advantage of the much faster speed of light compared with electrons, could potentially lead to future optical computers that transmit large amounts of data at very high speeds. Working toward this goal, researchers in a new study have developed a tiny laser 100 ...

Photo of Pennella balaenopterae embedded on the side of the porpoise's peduncle (from Fig 2 of the paper) Most people usually think of copepods as tiny crustaceans which live as zooplankton near the, and for most part that is...