Phosphate rich foods include processed cheese, Parmesan, cola, baking powder and most processed foods. Phosphates are widely used in the food industry as…
Three recent scientific papers examined the risks of interplanetary exchange of organisms using research from the International Space Station. All three,…
With the bursting of spring, pollen is in the air. Most of the pollen that is likely tickling your nose and making your eyes water is being dispersed in a…
The study, published in the current issue of the journal Nature Medicine, showed that excessive activity of an important signaling protein in the matrix of the…
Telomeres and the enzyme telomerase have been in the medical news a lot recently due to their connection with aging and cancer. Telomeres are found at the ends…
Pioneering research, published in Nature Nanotechnology, has now developed a method to accurately measure the surface temperature of nanoscale objects when…
Airliners like the Airbus A380 are custom made and thus hardly different from other capital goods like custom machines or plants. Each airline attaches…
Killer whales and other marine mammals likely hear sonar signals more than we’ve known.
“Once the roof over the garage is blown off, there usually is a significant hole into the main portion of the house,” said Dr. Andrew J. Graettinger, associate…
Volcanologists at the University have discovered that a process called frictional melting plays a role in determining how a volcano will erupt, by dictating…
Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers have shown that a protein they previously demonstrated can make the failing hearts in aging mice appear more…
The research indicates that the world is indeed getting warmer, but historical records show that it hasn't happened everywhere at the same rate.
“Every time you wanted to hear a specific note, there was a specific key to press,” says Andrew Peters, a neurobiologist at UC San Diego's Center for Neural…
Not only can viruses trigger annoying and unpleasant infections, such as influenza or measles, they are also responsible for a number of human cancers. One…
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Northwestern University researchers are the first to develop a new solar cell with good efficiency that uses tin instead of lead perovskite as the harvester of…