The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder or AIRS instrument aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite captured an infrared image of the temperatures in Tropical Storm Andrea’s…
Laptops could work longer and electric cars could drive farther if it were possible to further increase the capacity of their lithium-ion batteries. The…
Every 6.6 years, the comet Giacobini-Zinner circulates through the inner solar system and passes through the perihelion, the closest point to the Sun of its…
This strategic document provides a set of key recommendations for the European Commission and the EU Member States to create a favourable ecosystem for the…
The findings are published in the June 6, 2013 issue of Nature Communications.HSV-1 is a persistent and problematic pathogen. Typically, it infects victims…
The research, published in the June 6 issue of JAMA Ophthalmology, suggests that vision may play an important role in calibrating the vestibular system, which…
“It is surprising to have large, potentially complex fossils that far back,” said Christopher H. House, professor of geosciences, Penn State, and lead author.However, the researchers not only showed that these inclusions in the rocks were biological in origin, but also that they were likely planktonic autotrophs — free-floating, tiny ocean organisms that produce energy from their environment. …
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have uncovered a mechanism that guides the exquisite wiring of neural circuits in a developing brain — gaining…
The shrinking lake and prolonged drought were initially blamed on overgrazing and bad agricultural practices. More recently, Lake Chad became an example of…
A group of researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research is flying to South Africa today. However this trip…
The findings, published today in the journal Molecular Therapy and highlighted in the most recent issue of Nature, represent the first time researchers been…
On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 undersea earthquake occurred 43 miles off the shore of Japan. The earthquake generated an unexpectedly massive tsunami that…
The research appears in the Journal of Experimental Biology.Pleurobranchaea californica is a deep-water species of sea slug found off the west coast of the…
If one looks only for the shiniest pennies in the fountain, chances are one misses most of the coins because they shimmer less brightly. This, in a nutshell,…
Fuel cell technology has come a long way since the early days in the Apollo space program. Certainly the idea of running a car on pure hydrogen is an exciting…
American researchers have developed a probe for marking biomolecules that begins to fluoresce only when it is “switched on” by binding. As reported in the…
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