They have established that the majority of ozone-depleting iodine oxide observed over the remote ocean comes from a previously unknown marine source. The…
On average, there are now five times as many record-breaking hot months worldwide than could be expected without long-term global warming, shows a study now…
January 13, 2013, Fujian and Shenzhen, China- An international research consortium, led by Fujian Agriculture, Forestry University (FAFU) and BGI, has…
The breakthrough could allow for rapid and more accurate drug testing for professional athletes as it could detect the presence of even trace amounts of a…
Jointly issued with STFC and the Royal Veterinary College London.Scientists have been able to reconstruct, for the first time, the intricate three-dimensional…
Researchers at McGill University and the Research Center for Molecular Medicine (CeMM) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences have discovered the molecular…
The paper, available in and featured on the front cover of the Jan. 16, 2013, issue of FEBS Letters, a journal of the Federation of European Biochemical…
Scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) have analysed for the first time all the proteins inside natural killer (NK) cells of healthy…
In a 4-year University of Illinois study that compared miscanthus, switchgrass, and mixed prairie species to typical corn-corn-soybean rotations, each of the…
To infect a cell, a virus must be able to first find a suitable cell and then eject its genetic material into its host. This robot-like process has been…
Near the crowded galactic center, where billowing clouds of gas and dust cloak a supermassive black hole three million times as massive as the sun—a black hole…
However, to function properly, the cells must often grow in a specific pattern or alignment. An innovative method for creating a stretched polymer scaffold…
Watches and Warnings are posted for the western coast of Western Australia over the next several days as Narelle continues to move on a southerly track, where…
Now, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have found that blocking the interaction of a critical enzyme may counteract…
During five days of operations, controllers from NASA and the Canadian Space Agency will use the space station's remotely operated Special Purpose Dexterous…
Scientists at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute have for the first time demonstrated that baboon embryonic stem cells can be programmed to completely…