What do a car engine, a power plant, a factory and a solar panel have in common? They all generate heat – a lot of which is wasted. University of Arizona…
The NMDA receptor, an ion channel consisting of four
protein subunits, is involved in the pathophysiology of
…
Sigma receptors have been in the focus of drug discovery
for several years, being classified into two subtypes,
…
In a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Cary Institute aquatic ecologist Dr. Emma Rosi-Marshall and colleagues…
Pedram Mohseni, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Case Western Reserve University, and Randolph J. Nudo, a professor of molecular…
In particular, the Best Practice Document, prepared by the European Coexistence Bureau (ECoB) and published by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre…
The report, Surviving Crime and Violence: Street Youth and Victimization in Toronto, highlights the degree to which it is street youth themselves − often…
“Previous research has laid out best practices that are conducive to brainstorming, or group decision making, and we wanted to see whether using those…
In the meantime three species are facing extinction. In 2004 scientists in the United States identified the cause: the drug Diclofenac. The use of this…
Quarks are found in each proton and are bound together by forces which cause all other known forces of nature to fade. To understand the effects of these…
“This is the first study to investigate the temporal relationship between cough and reflux events using a validated sound recording device to register the…
It is to become the largest X-ray telescope ever: The International X-Ray Observatory (IXO), which has been planned in a cooperation between NASA, ESA and…
Our bodies daily eliminate in a controlled manner more than 100 million defective cells, by means of a procedure known as ‘cell suicide’ or apoptosis. This is…
About ten years ago, the discovery of microRNAs — tiny cellular molecules that regulate our genetic code — unlocked a world of scientific possibilities,…
“This USGS report provides the most comprehensive national-scale assessment to date of nitrogen and phosphorus in our streams and groundwater,” said Marcia…
But a recent study shows that the most heavily tile-drained areas of North America are also the largest contributing source of nitrate to the Gulf of Mexico,…