Our life expectancy has increased considerably in recent centuries. However, which factors play a role in giving us longer mental and physical health?…
Scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Potsdam University have now provided a novel view on human evolution during the past…
The most important sales period for stores has started, and in different stores we encounter apparently good deals involving the purchase of two or more items…
Conventional processes for generating biogas require solid or liquid biomass input. This novel process uses gaseous substrates and thereby enhances versatile…
The invention is a novel process for manufacturing highly optically transparent glass foams with an absorption edge in the UV range. The foams are manufactured…
With a national debate taking shape about the possibility of a national tax on foods with high sweetener content, ISU economists have examined how such a tax…
Discoveries of new planets just keep coming and coming. Take, for instance, the 18 recently found by a team of astronomers led by scientists at the California…
“Climate-smart agriculture has the potential to increase sustainable productivity, increase the resilience of farming systems to climate impacts and mitigate…
Sulfomucins, one of two primary types of acidomucins secreted by intestinal goblet cells, provide crucial protection to the intestinal mucosa. Therefore, it is…
A single stem cell has the potential to generate offspring that differentiates into a variety of specialised cell types. This has now been shown by a team of…
“Wasps and humans have independently evolved similar and very specialized face-learning mechanisms, despite the fact that everything about the way we see and…
RELEVANCE: Like embryonic stem cells, iPS cells can become any cell type in the body, a characteristic that could make them well-suited for therapeutic cell…
A growing area of geosciences research focuses on the interactions between different liquids and minerals present on Earth. The presence of water, for example,…
Hydrogen gas is an almost infinitely inexhaustible fuel source that emits only clean water during combustion. Switching from hydrocarbon-based transportation…
After every meal, the hormone insulin is released into the bloodstream, issuing instructions to target cells to begin taking up excess sugar. In some…
The “Sustainable Rice Platform” will elevate rice production to a new level by helping farmers – whether subsistence or market-focused – boost their rice…
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