Debate over the origin of large-scale polygons (hundreds of meters to kilometers in diameter) on Mars remains active even after several decades of detailed…
The vomeronasal organ (VNO) is one of evolution's most direct enforcers. From its niche within the nose in most land-based vertebrates, it detects pheromones…
Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have now discovered that mutations in one gene cause the disease in the majority of patients with a diagnosis of…
Smith and McLaurin Ltd, is a leading manufacturer and global supplier of self-adhesive label, ticket and tag materials. Based in Johnstone, the company sells…
The results of this research project are surprising: Although shark teeth contain 100% of a fluoride (i.e. the mineral which is also present in low…
LCA is an inherited retinal degenerative disease characterized by reduced vision in infancy. Within the first few months of life, parents usually notice a lack…
Reporting this week in the journal Nature Geoscience, scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and Australia's national research agency, the Commonwealth…
Such “methane seeps” are fascinating environments because of their extraordinary chemical features and often bizarre marine life. The area of interest, roughly…
Unfortunately, in time, these treatments also can fall prey to the same microbial ability to become drug resistant. Now, a research team at the University of…
A Japanese research team has been investigating how deep-sea bacteria adapt to such high-pressure conditions. They have identified a structural change that…
The new data analysis and visualization tool offers improved ease of use compared to similar tools, the researchers say, and could be readily adapted for use…
The study represents a major contribution to the new field of connectomics – the effort to map the myriad neural connections in a brain, brain region or…
Pellenc Selective Technologies (or Pellenc ST) designs, manufactures and markets optical-sorting machines for the sorting and re-use of household and…
A research team led by Xian Chang Li, MD, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) Transplantation Research Center, has shed light on how a population of…
Writing in Nature Materials, the scientists show that a new side-view imaging technique can be used to visualize the individual atomic layers of graphene…
The reason, says William McKinnon, PhD, professor of earth and planetary sciences, is Iapetus' spectacular topography. “Not only is the moon out-of-round, but…
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