In industrial and high-tech settings, diamonds are particularly valued for their hardness, optical clarity, smoothness, and resistance to chemicals, radiation…
NASA has issued an “Asteroid Grand Challenge” focused on finding all asteroids that could present a threat to Earth.The initiative, aimed at partners in…
On Sunday, June 30, NASA infrared satellite imagery revealed tightly curved bands of thunderstorms over the southern quadrant of the storm were wrapping into…
Scientists have tracked down and quantified the diverse origins of cells that drive fibrosis, the incurable, runaway wound-healing that scars and ultimately…
This phenomenon can only be found in certain materials under specific low-temperature and high-pressure conditions. Research to create superconductors at…
Vitamin C affects whether genes are switched on or off inside mouse stem cells, and may thereby play a previously unknown and fundamental role in helping to…
The agriculture industry is researching new technologies to help feed the growing population. But feeding the world without harming air quality is a challenge.According to a new article in Animal Frontiers, biotechnologies increase food production and reduce harmful gas output from cattle….
But the real “star” is the planet HD 97658b, not much more than twice the Earth's diameter and a little less than eight times its mass. HD 97658b is a…
Thirty percent of severe alcoholics develop liver disease, but scientists have not been able to explain why only a subset is at risk. A research team from…
Yet it has been challenging to figure out how to sustain the many benefits people obtain from nature — so-called “ecosystem services” — in any given landscape…
In its comment in response to the European Commission’s consultation, ‘A 2030 Framework for Climate and Energy Policies,’ the SRU advocates adopting a GHG…
Salathé will publish an article in the 1 July 2013 issue of th New England Journal of Medicine, with colleagues from the Harvard Medical School, describing the…
A cerebral aneurysm is a balloon-like bulge in a weakened blood vessel in the brain. If an aneurysm ruptures, blood is leaked into or around the brain, which…
“The severity of these findings is associated with the severity of the clinical condition of the patients,” said study co-author Zhiyong Zhang, M.D., Ph.D.,…
By analysing data from the European Space Agency’s Cluster spacecraft, researcher Iannis Dandouras detected this plasmaspheric wind, so-called because it…
Now a new study of a large ethnically and socioeconomically diverse group of children from across the United States has identified poor planning skills as one…
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