Models of carbon dioxide in the world's oceans need to be revised, according to new work by UC Irvine and other scientists published online Sunday in Nature…
There's little doubt — among scientists at any rate — that the climate has warmed since people began to release massive amounts greenhouse gases to the…
This is the largest program to successfully replicate the results achieved by the Diabetes Prevention Project (DPP), a research study led by the National…
A rising percentage of parents say they won't have their teen daughters vaccinated to protect against the human papilloma virus, even though physicians are…
Sediments of the deepest trench on Earth, Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, shows surprisingly high microbial activity. An international research team led…
The transportation authorities are now planning to operate two lines exclusively with eBuses by the middle of 2013. During the Skiing World Championships in…
Today, the SeaGen power plant in a northern Irish narrows has an installed capacity of 1.2 megawatts (MW). The SeaGen-S will deliver two MW. The Welsh…
Most current radio transmission techniques use locally generated signals for the demodulation of the received signals. The electronic devices like synthesizers…
Directionally solidified (DS) and single crystal (SC) components have been used in aircraft turbines for many years. They are also used in smaller turbines for…
Liquid water remains a mystery even after decades of dedicated scientific investigations and researchers still struggle to fully describe its unusual structure…
Defense mechanisms used by the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans enable it to lead to fatal meningitis, which is one of the opportunistic infections often…
Rice University researchers have found a way to divide and modify enzymes to create what amounts to a genetic logic gate.Biochemist Matthew Bennett and…
The Solar Wind Electron Analyzer (SWEA) was the last of the six instruments to be delivered, and was integrated late last week at Lockheed Martin in Littleton,…
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image of Tropical Cyclone Tim in the Coral…
On March 13, it was announced the most vigorous bursts of star birth in the cosmos took place much earlier than previously thought – results now published in a…
“Using surveillance of influenza cases in humans and birds, we've come up with a technique to predict sites where these viruses could mix and generate a future…