Nanomachines are devices of the future. Composed of a very little number of atoms, they would be in the range of billionth parts of a meter in size….
Yongkoo Seol and Jong-Ho Cha explain that salty wastewater is a byproduct of oil and gas production, including hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. These methods…
A modified law of gravity correctly predicted, in advance of the observations, the velocity dispersion — the average speed of stars within a galaxy relative…
Eijiro Miyako and colleagues explain that Morpho butterfly wings have natural properties that are beyond the capabilities of any current technology to…
Ikuko Akimoto and colleagues point out that traditional approaches to breaking down water, which consists of hydrogen and oxygen, involve use of expensive…
Heavy rain with Tropical Storm Fernand generated mudslides. According to the Latin Times, a total of 13 people died as the result of mudslides from Fernand's…
Problems with a key group of enzymes called topoisomerases can have profound effects on the genetic machinery behind brain development and potentially lead to…
The best explanation for the findings, the authors said, is that Titan's ice shell is rigid and that relatively small topographic features on the surface are…
Stem cell technology has long offered the hope of regenerating tissue to repair broken or damaged neural tissue. Findings from a team of UC Davis investigators…
“Our model shows that today's genetic code probably resulted from a combination of selective forces and random chance,” explained Justin Jee, a doctoral…
Lena Brundin of Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine was part of a research team that measured inflammatory markers found in cerebrospinal…
The results of the study, led by Assistant Scientist Lisa Flook, were recently published in the journal Mind, Brain and Education.Mindfulness, a notion that…
How tiny fish larvae travel away from the reef, then know how to navigate their way back home is a scientific mystery. A new study led by Dr. Claire Paris,…
Research by environmental scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) brings bad news to the western United States, where…
An international team of researchers coordinated by ornithologist Bret Whitney of the LSU Museum of Natural Science, or LSUMNS, recently published 15 species…
This relationship is examined in a study published in the August 28, 2013, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of…
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