Lou Gehrig's disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, attacks muscle-controlling nerve cells – motor neurons – in the brain, brainstem and…
The Swainson's warbler (Limnothlypis swainsonii) is one of the rarest and most secretive songbirds in North America, prized by birdwatchers in the southeastern…
Why were dinosaurs covered in a cloak of feathers long before the early bird species Archaeopteryx first attempted flight? Researchers from the University of…
Messenger, transfer, ribosomal… there's more than one type of RNA. The difference lies not only in the sequence of the nucleotides, the “beads” that form the…
While there are a number of different drugs available to people suffering from tuberculosis (TB), resistance to these drugs is a growing problem. People…
Samuel Sánchez however is already hard at work in his lab at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart to make these visions come true. For his innovative…
Fifteen projects have been funded since the launch in 2011, and now independent assessors have recommended that a further three should receive support: a…
Cars take on continuously more tasks: They communicate with each other, defuse critical traffic situations and will steer automatically in the future. All of…
Spanish steel producer ArcelorMittal Asturias has awarded Siemens Metals Technologies an order to completely modernize the pickling line at its Avilés plant….
If the surroundings are designed to be sufficiently stimulating, even a simple computer screen is enough to generate an intense cinematic experience.
Greenhouse lettuce plants bathed in soft pink light that cuts growing time in half. Farmers who boat to their coastal water “fields” of crops. Beef cattle bred…
Adélie penguins are an indigenous species of the West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP), one of the most rapidly warming areas on Earth. Since 1950, the average annual…
Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered a new reproductive mode in frogs and toads – breeding and laying direct developing…
Comet Siding Spring – an Oort Cloud comet that may contain material from the formation of the solar system some 4.6 billion years ago – was making its first…
If you’ve ever gone for a spin in a luxury car and felt your back being warmed or cooled by a seat-based climate control system, then you’ve likely experienced…
A population of endangered giant tortoises, which once dwindled to just over a dozen, has recovered on the Galapagos island of Española, a finding described as…
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