Michael Lehmann, an associate professor of biological sciences, uses fruit fly genetics to study the receptor — N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor, known as the…
The “dual resistant” insect and virus varieties may reduce or even eliminate the need for pesticides in several regions.Thrips are tiny insects that pierce and…
Dr. Blackmon, a principal research engineer at the university’s Propulsion Research Center, figures that to travel to places like Mars and beyond we’ll first…
Understanding the natural mechanisms turtles use to protect the heart and brain from oxygen deprivation may one day improve treatments for heart attacks or…
Modern astronomers are also interested in studying the SMC (and its cousin, the Large Magellanic Cloud), but for very different reasons. Because the SMC is so…
Histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACi) are promising anticancer agents and are currently being evaluated in clinical trials. However, due to their unselective…
During the cold and dark of Arctic winter, sea ice refreezes and achieves its maximum extent, usually in late February or early March. According to a NASA…
The Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH) has filed a patent application for a SLOT process, which was originally developed as a 3-D fluorescence process for…
GE's Power Conversion business (NYSE: GE) has taken an important step in testing a viable way of producing large amounts of electricity from renewable…
The team, led by Yifeng Cui, a computational scientist at SDSC, developed the scalable GPU (graphical processing units) accelerated code for use in earthquake…
Global composite temp.: +0.18 C (about 0.32 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for March.Northern Hemisphere: +0.33 C (about 0.59 degrees Fahrenheit)…
Three million cubic kilometers of ice won’t wash into the ocean overnight, but researchers have been tracking increasing melt rates since at least 1979. Last…
Reionization occurred a few hundred million years after the Big Bang as the first stars were turning on and forming the first galaxies. During this period, the…
The ORNL research team documented the atoms' unique behavior by first trapping groups of silicon atoms, known as clusters, in a single-atom-thick sheet of…
The extensive area of elevated topography that dominates the Western reaches of North America is exceptionally broad, encompassing the coastal ranges, the…
Washington–A new study from The Pew Charitable Trusts, “Making Hard Choices: Navigating the Economic Shock of Unemployment,” examines how American families…
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