The ALICE experiment, which is optimised for the study of heavy ions, published two papers just a few days after the start of lead-ion running. Now, the first…
A study recently published in the Journal of Environmental Quality by a team from Cornell University and the University of Illinois-Urbana found that tile…
Working in collaboration with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN, German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation), and…
A team of researchers from the United Kingdom, Sweden, Austria and Germany, with Professor Dr Martin Hildebrandt, Integrated Research and Treatment Center…
Certain actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions and thus reduce climate change can also directly improve human health, according to a statement from the…
“While more research is needed with larger numbers of women and their babies, these results are reassuring to women who want to give their babies all the…
Equipment built by German scientists can be used to study processes at interfaces with great accuracy. In an article published recently in ChemPhysChem, Hans…
In an article in the Oct. 25, 2010, issue of the journal Zootaxa, researchers for the first time described the immature stages of the insect species…
Differences in height, skin and eye color of humans, for example, are very noticeable, but are actually the consequences of very small variations in genetic…
Understanding the amount of pollutants in soil and snow is critical to maintaining the quality of alpine water sources, and is the subject of a study published…
Instead of buying petroleum by the barrel, chemical manufacturers will now be able to use relatively cheaper, widely available pyrolysis oils made from waste…
Peering through an electron microscope down to a level where a human hair would seem as wide as a washer and dryer set, they were able to quantify deviations…
Researchers demonstrate that the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago made way for mammals to get bigger – about a thousand times bigger than they had…
And the effects of these psychological factors can be largely overcome with a brief writing exercise focusing on important values, such as friends and family,…
Astronomers have found the first evidence of a magnetic field in a jet of material ejected from a young star, a discovery that points toward future…
A team of University of Massachusetts Amherst chemical engineers report in today's issue of Science that they have developed a way to produce high-volume…