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Life & Chemistry

Farm Salmon Threaten Wild Gene Pools: Key Findings Unveiled

Findings published today reveal that, while farmed salmon are genetically different to their wild counterparts, they are just as fertile. This is important…

Life & Chemistry

Discover a New Tool for Visualizing Transcriptomes in Bioinformatics

Next-generation sequencing has revolutionized functional genomics, with protocols such as RNA-seq, ChIP-seq and CAGE being used widely around the world.

Earth Sciences

First Animals Oxygenated Oceans, New Study Finds

New research led by the University of Exeter contests the long held belief that oxygenation of the atmosphere and oceans was a pre-requisite for the evolution…

Life & Chemistry

Understanding Bacterial Secretion Systems and Antibiotic Resistance

The study, published today in Nature, reveals the mechanism of bacterial type IV secretion, which bacteria use to move substances across their cell wall. As…

Earth Sciences

Sun's energy influences 1,000 years of natural climate variability in North Atlantic

Scientists studied seafloor sediments to determine how the temperature of the North Atlantic and its localised atmospheric circulation had altered. Warm…

Event News

HIV and Tuberculosis: Insights from International Symposium

On invitation of the Koch-Metchnikov-Forum and the World Health Summit, about 70 experts from 10 countries will meet in Berlin on March 20 and 21, 2014, to…

Earth Sciences

Innovative Solutions for Reviving Tuscany’s Dying Landscapes

Vast fields of sunflowers, sprawling pine trees and slim cypresses, as well as vineyards as far as the eye can see – these are typical memories of Tuscany for…

Machine Engineering

Siemens Unveils MM992-2VD: Ethernet Over Two-Wire Cabling

The new MM992-2VD (Variable Distance) media module from Siemens enables the use of two-wire cabling, such as Profibus cables, for Ethernet communication,…

Materials Sciences

Discover Atomically Thin Solar Cells Using Graphene Innovation

It does not get any thinner than this: The novel material graphene consists of only one atomic layer of carbon atoms and exhibits very special electronic…

Life & Chemistry

UNC Researchers Develop Tool to Study Metastasis Mysteries

Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine have devised a new biochemical technique that will allow them and other scientists to delve much deeper than ever…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

U of M Study: Herbivores Boost Grassland Plant Diversity

Two wrongs may not make a right. But when it comes to grassland plant species diversity, it just might. Two impacts often controlled by humans — being…

Life & Chemistry

Stem Cell Study Reveals New Insights in Biology

The groundbreaking findings from the Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) also demonstrate that the precise amount of protein…

Materials Sciences

Mapping Charge Behavior in Spin-Orbit Mott Insulators

In a relatively recently discovered class of materials, known as spin-orbit Mott insulators, theorists have predicted the emergence of new properties at points…

Materials Sciences

Printing Light: New Method Uses Inkjet for Metal Innovations

Using an inexpensive inkjet printer, University of Utah electrical engineers produced microscopic structures that use light in metals to carry information….

Environmental Conservation

Warming Temperatures Are Pushing Two Chickadee Species—and Their Hybrids—Northward

The zone of overlap between two popular, closely related backyard birds is moving northward at a rate that matches warming winter temperatures, according to a…

Environmental Conservation

Researcher Unravels Mystery of Sea Turtles’ ‘Lost Years’

The “lost years” refer to the time after turtles hatch and head out to sea until they are seen again upon returning to near-shore waters as large juveniles….

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