The countdown has been started for opening the gates again for the worldwide leading aviation and space event in Le Bourget, Paris from June 17th – 23rd, 2013.
This work is being undertaken in an international project with European and Japanese partners. The objective is to develop an integrated system comprising…
Ocean waters melting the undersides of Antarctic ice shelves, not icebergs calving into the sea, are responsible for most of the continent's ice loss, a study…
The projected rise is mostly due to fertility in Africa, where the U.N. had expected birth rates to decline more quickly than they have. UW Center for…
“For now the only thing you can do with it is use it for direct combustion,” Kling said. “But if it becomes a major crop other researchers could start working…
The fish are part of the first effort in the United States to breed tuna in a land-based aquaculture facility to meet the growing demand for one of the ocean’s…
Genetic material in mud from the bottom of the ocean — called the deep biosphere —revealed an ecosystem of active bacteria, fungi and other microscopic…
The Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) of Heidelberg University will host a symposium on 20 and 21 June 2013 on morphogenesis, the process that causes plant…
A toxin dangerous to humans may help E. coli fend off aquatic predators, enabling strains of E. coli that produce the toxin to survive longer in lake water…
Led by Raymond Schaak, a professor of chemistry at Penn State University, research team members have found that an important chemical reaction that generates…
According to new research from the Monell Center and collaborating institutions, odors from human skin cells can be used to identify melanoma, the deadliest…
Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario are using optics and photonics in their quest to “bring the lab to the sample,” said lead researcher…
Researchers at Rice University have come up with a new way to boost the efficiency of the ubiquitous lithium ion (LI) battery by employing ribbons of graphene…
This study examines two of the subtypes and identifies an abnormal metabolic pathway that drives the aggressive growth of one of them.The findings could lead…
The toxin, called acrolein, is produced in the body after nerve cells are injured, triggering a cascade of biochemical events thought to worsen the injury's…
New study data presented today at EULAR 2013, the Annual Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism, demonstrate a high prevalence of NSAID…