Planck All-sky

The Planck spacecraft, designed to observe the cosmic microwave in unprecedented detail, releases its first all sky map.

Earliest traces of complex life?

Cookie-shaped fossils from 2.1 billion years ago may be the oldest fossils of multicellular life discovered to date.

Astronomers verify directly imaged planet

Tags: Astronomy

Astronomers verify that a supposed directly imaged exoplanet is indeed a planet.

What does that MRI signal MEAN, anyway?

Using light-activated cells appear to confirm that fMRI scans really do tell us what happens in the brain.

Vaccine against 2009 pandemic flu also protects mice against 1918 strain

Tags: Medicine

Mice administered a vaccine against the 2009 pandemic flu appear to be protected from the deadly 1918 flu.

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