This differs from the observation raised 10 years ago that humans were “fishing down” the food web. It was assumed that catches of the predators at the top of…
Observer status is the first step in becoming a full partner in TMT and participating in the engineering development and scientific use of what will be the…
In one of many safety-related studies going on worldwide, scientists at the UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center have uncovered that variations in X chromosome…
Galaxy clusters, which are assemblies of hundreds or even thousands of galaxies, are some of the densest structures in the universe. By studying the growth and…
Producing accurate and stable, long-term readings of neuronal activity using a brain–machine interface (BMI) is now possible thanks to work by Naotaka Fujii…
The development of fluorescent tags—small, light-emitting molecules attached to DNA strands—has revolutionized cell biology over the past two decades, allowing…
Physicists from Marburg and the US have succeeded in characterizing the quantum state of a system consisting of millions of particles by bringing experimental…
Some drugs may be more effective the longer they last inside the body. To prevent such drugs from being broken down too rapidly, pharmaceutical manufacturers…
A critical minimum for Arctic sea ice can also be expected for late summer 2010. Scientists from the German “Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine…
When light is absorbed by atoms, the electrons become excited. If the light particles, so-called photons, carry sufficient energy, the electrons can be ejected…
Researchers at Erasmus MC University Medical Centre in The Netherlands found that cyclosporine treatment is a significant risk factor for the development of de…
Thomas Bobik, professor of biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology, invented a process for manufacturing isobutene (isobutylene) by identifying a new,…
Researchers from the University of Grenoble Medical School in France determined that cardio-respiratory aerobic exercise is safe for patients with stable…
In a breeding experiment with Houbara bustards – a North African bird species with a very distinctive courtship behaviour, scientists have concluded that…
Earth-friendly perennial grain crops, which grow with less fertilizer, herbicide, fuel, and erosion than grains planted annually, could be available in two…
Transposons, or “jumping genes,” make up roughly half of the human genome. Geneticists previously estimated that they replicate and insert themselves into new…
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