Researchers at the University of Southern California have identified two molecules that may be more effective cancer killers than are currently available on…
A new device that combines two microimaging technologies can reveal both the detailed anatomy of arterial linings and biological activities that, in coronary…
Hyderabad, India and Shenzhen, China, 06 November 2011 – Once referred to as an “orphan crop” mainly grown by poor farmers, pigeonpea is now set to join the…
The embryonic enzyme pyruvate kinase M2 (PKM2) has a well-established role in metabolism and is highly expressed in human cancers. Now, a team led by…
The dual spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at Mars in October 2012. After insertion into orbit the two spacecraft will separate. Yinghuo-1 will stay on a…
This is the central question field-researchers, operators of long term observatories and modellers from 18 partner institutions in the EU intend to answer with…
Now the organisation has acknowledged the outstanding research work of three scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB): Esben Lorentzen and…
Red algae, in contrast, use a slightly different mechanism and are thus more productive. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB) in…
FacebookBetween 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., consumers use Facebook more than television, according to Wood. Thirty percent of teen millennials (ages 15 to 17) surveyed…
Research published in Science today reveals that the first individuals settling on new land are more successful at passing on their genes than those who did…
That was the discovery made by University of Cincinnati Educator Associate Professor Denis Conover, of the Department of Biological Sciences in UC's McMicken…
In the first test of the nanocomposite probe inspired by the dynamic skin of the sea cucumber, the immune response differed compared to that of a metal probe,…
A group of researchers from the Southern Polytechnic State University (SPSU) in Marietta, Georgia, and the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in…
Now researchers from the University of Arizona and the University of Utah are taking a second look at this underappreciated range. Their research reveals that…
Almost nine hundred years ago, in the mid-12th century, the southwestern U.S. was in the middle of a multi-decade megadrought. It was the most recent extended…
Around the turn of the century, scientists began to understand that atoms have discrete energy levels. Within the field of quantum physics, this sparked the…