Forget about positioning giant mirrors in space to reduce the amount of sunlight being trapped in the earth's atmosphere or seeding clouds to reduce the amount…
“This particular genetic variation in humans is associated with blond hair, but it isn't associated with eye color or other pigmentation traits,” says David…
Scientists announce a previously unknown link between lung cancer and a particular BRCA2 defect, occurring in around 2 per cent of the population, in research…
Supernova explosions, triggered when the fuel within a star reignites or its core collapses, launch a detonation shock wave that sweeps through a few light…
Using a flash of light, scientists have inactivated and then reactivated a memory in genetically engineered rats. The study, supported by the National…
Dr Jayne Hehir-Kwa, Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics in the Translational Research group, Department of Human Genetics, Radboud UMC, Nijmegen, The…
The near-surface installation of pipelines usually causes massive disturbance to the environment. It can create corridors up to 50 metres wide. The BINE…
The ABC4Trust research team is piloting this technology with young people, often thought to be the less careful about their online security. But 'that’s not…
Computing experts at Sandia National Laboratories have launched an effort to help discover what computers of the future might look like, from next-generation…
If Nina Mahmoudian has her way, the next generation of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) will have a much better chance of getting it right.
Worldwide, major cities stand to gain around $800 billion per year of economic opportunity from 2030 by upgrading their public transportation networks. This is…
The best estimates currently available suggest that 350,000 deaths in each year in Europe are due to so called 'out-of-hospital cardiac arrest' (OOH-CA).This…
The first preclinical study of a new Rice University-developed anti-cancer technology found that a novel combination of existing clinical treatments can…
Researchers from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) have developed a software based on the discovery of some algorithms that enable the…
The combined action of two enzymes, Srs2 and Exo1, prevents and repairs common genetic mutations in growing yeast cells, according to a new study led by…
The addition of bevacizumab to standard therapy extended progression-free survival more for ovarian cancer patients with molecular subtypes labeled as…