Speed is an asset for a predator. Except when that predator runs so fast that it essentially blinds itself.
This dark and ominous landscape is located some 450 light-years away in the constellation of Taurus (The Bull). It lies in the north-eastern part of a large,…
What does a black hole look like up close?
The research team, led by Prof Dr. Markus Egert of Furtwangen University, Schwenningen Campus, has been able to show that, contrary to the horror stories we…
In a study published in the November 2014 issue of the Journal of Animal Science (“Impact of hard vs. soft wheat and monensin level on rumen acidosis in…
The research, published in the latest issue of the journal The Plant Cell, sheds light on how chromatin (the complex of DNA and proteins) is organized in a…
The FLINT study found that people with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) who took obeticholic acid (OCA) had improved liver health during that period,…
“It’s like looking back in time to see the kinds of destructive events that once routinely happened in our solar system after the planets formed,” said survey…
Coughing, wheezing and shortness of breath are symptoms asthma sufferers are used to. They are also the symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease…
The award went to three Japanese researchers who were the first to produce high-quality gallium nitride (GaN) layers and put them into series production back…
Which mating partner is the best? To answer this difficult question, female grasshoppers base their decision on the singing skills of their male conspecifics….
Scientists from the Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology at the Vetmeduni Vienna have discovered that power-napping can help late-born garden dormice…
The results, published by scientists from the 1KITE project (1,000 Insect Transcriptome Evolution, www.1kite.org), are essential to understanding the millions…
All multicellular creatures are descended from single-celled organisms. The leap from unicellularity to multicellularity is possible only if the originally…
“A smile gains more friends than a long face.” This Chinese saying has been scientifically validated by researchers of the Max Planck Institute for…
High-speed reading of the genetic code should get a boost with the creation of the world’s first graphene nanopores – pores measuring approximately 2…
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