More than ten years ago, researchers at Rice University led by materials scientist Boris Yakobson predicted that boron atoms ...

Researchers unveil the fractal globule structure of DNA, providing new insights into genome organization and its implications ...

WASHINGTON - Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of ... “Scientists have been studying the structure and anatomy of the brain – including the morphology ...

The wiring diagram and its data, freely available through the MICrONS Explorer, are 1.6 petabytes in size (equivalent to 22 years of non-stop HD video), and offer never-before-seen insight into ...

According to Ray Kurzweil, the basic structure of the neocortex is organized around groups of neurons called pattern recognizers estimated to number 300 million. Over the course of a lifetime ...

The team compared how well various traditional and unconventional patterns of stiffening ribs enable a structure to withstand both evenly ... but not in its mathematically pure form known as the ...

Flowers are composed of elements such as sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils, and the symbolic representation of this composition is called a 'floral formula,' and a schematic diagram showing ...

What are the sleep patterns of a newborn? The average newborn sleeps much of the day and night, waking only for feedings every few hours. It's often hard for new parents to know how long and how often ...

College of Computer Science, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, P.R. China Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge, Engineering of Ministry of Education, Changchun 130012, P.R. China ...

Sleep architecture is the basic pattern of normal sleep. You experience two main types of sleep—rapid eye movement (REM) and non-rapid eye movement (NREM). NREM sleep has three different stages, all ...