In the current issue of Nature, a team of researchers led by Michigan State University shows that marginal lands represent a huge untapped resource to grow…
On Jan. 16 at 0702 UTC (2:02 a.m. EST) NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite passed over Emang, and captured rainfall rates. TRMM…
The research is published in the advance online edition of Nature Genetics. “We found mutations in a gene called SF3B1,” says senior author Anne Bowcock, PhD,…
EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit organization that focuses on local conservation and global health issues, released new research on Ebola virus in fruit bats in…
The MID is the second-largest individual income tax expenditure, according to the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation. Given the severity of the fiscal…
The study comprises more than 200 students from six different study programs and was carried out by Chato Rasoal, a researcher in psychology, together with two…
Leuphana University’s Digital School has entered into the age of collaborative online learning. Less than one week after the start of registration,…
The International Renewable Energy Agency IRENA and the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to enhance…
A new study at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, confirmes that shoe inserts, podiatry, regular checkups and other simple interventions…
NASA scientists and engineers are working now to lay the groundwork for the Aerosol-Cloud-Ecosystem (ACE) mission, a satellite that “will dramatically change…
The cerebral cortex is a two to four millimetre layer of cells that envelopes the top part of the brain and is involved in cognitive, behavioural, and motor…
MSU scientists have made a number of improvements on the fish, including the ability to glide long distances, which is the most important change to date. The…
Scientists in the past 20 years have recognized that salmon stocks vary not only year to year, but also on decades-long time cycles. One example is the 30-year…
One of the most extraordinary properties of living cells is their ability to precisely reproduce themselves through processes that transfer genetic information…
Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decadeDecember temperatures (preliminary)Global composite temp.: +0.20 C (about 0.36 degrees Fahrenheit)…
With record-breaking warm spring weather in 2010 and 2012 resulting in the earliest known flowering times in 161 years of recorded history in two U.S….