The lamps create a veritable web of light that overlays the display. If a user touches the screen, the motion interferes with the light grid at that particular…
The study shows that West African rainforest deforestation reduces precipitation over neighboring trees by about 50 percent due to increased surface…
Essential for the growth and development of the young pigeon squab, pigeon 'milk' is produced by both parents from fluid-filled cells lining the crop that are…
The study, based on computer simulations of global climate, points to ocean layers deeper than 1,000 feet (300 meters) as the main location of the “missing…
They subjected rainbow trout to titanium oxide nanoparticles which are widely used as a whitening agent in many products including paints, some personal care…
At the heart of many metabolic processes, including DNA replication, are enzymes called helicases. Acting like motors, these proteins travel along one side of…
University of Utah engineers who built wireless networks that see through walls now are aiming the technology at a new goal: noninvasively measuring the…
The surrounding water acts like an “adhesive”, in order to keep the substrate at the right place on an enzyme. For this, the dynamism of the water is retarded….
The technique has now been successfully tested on nine patients diagnosed with ovarian cancer. There are plans to apply this imaging concept also to minimally…
Gamers have solved the structure of a retrovirus enzyme whose configuration had stumped scientists for more than a decade. The gamers achieved their discovery…
The discovery is reported in the latest issue of Nature Materials.Quantum dots are nanoscale semiconductors that capture light and convert it into an energy…
MicroRNAs are a class of 19-24 nucleotide non-coding RNAs that do not code for proteins. MicroRNAs bind to target messenger RNAs to inhibit protein…
The study published today in Epilepsia, a journal of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE), reports that patients with epilepsy were nearly 8 times…
Like DNA, fingerprints are unique to each person or set of identical twins. That makes them a valuable identification tool for everything from crime detection…
Songbirds with upper brain regions that are larger in relation to lower regions have a greater capacity for learning songs. Higher brain areas control the…
Climate change researcher David W. Wolfe says New York can be prepared, but we need to understand the changes to come and start getting ready to face them…