Algae that live in and under the sea ice play a much greater role for the Arctic food web than previously assumed. In a new study, biologists of the Alfred…
In order to defend the body against intracellular pathogens, such as the single-cell parasites Leishmania major, nitric oxide (NO) must be produced. This is…
The record was made using a partially superconducting microwave detector. The discovery may lead to ultrasensitive cameras and accessories for the emerging…
Could a tail have allowed ancient vertebrates to make the transition from water to land?
The Henry Granjon Prize is awarded for outstanding publications in four categories carried out by emerging researchers working toward a master's thesis or…
Following the FAIR Council’s decision in late September 2015 on the overall scope of the FAIR facility, the management team in Darmstadt was able to begin…
“The conditions on Ceres are right for accumulating deposits of water ice,” said Norbert Schorghofer, a Dawn guest investigator at the University of Hawaii at…
The study’s lead author, Dr Kathryn Kirby, from the University of Toronto, said: “Human cultural diversity is expressed in numerous ways: from the foods we eat…
The Atmospheric Tomography, or ATom, mission is the first to survey the atmosphere over the oceans. Scientists aboard NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory will…
The RapidScat instrument that flies aboard the International Space Station has been analyzing the winds around Super typhoon Nepartak. RapidScat is a…
When it feels easy to pay for something, it might just make us feel less connected to what we're buying, a new U of T Scarborough study says.
On the TOP500 list of the most powerful supercomputers, which was published during the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC’16), the final expansion…
The motive behind the study is the conflict between the exploitation of wind energy and the conservation of the protected bats. The German so-called…
Packaging glass for medications or tablets must be tempered after it is heat-formed, otherwise thermal stresses can lead to glass bottles or ampoules cracking…
A new study carried out on the floor of Pacific Ocean provides the most detailed view yet of how the earth's mantle flows beneath the ocean's tectonic plates….
Lasers have become indispensable to modern life since they were invented more than fifty years ago. The ability to generate and amplify light waves into a…
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