The work, co-led by geneticists at the UCSD Institute for Genomic Medicine, together with colleagues from institutes and universities in Paris, Rome and…
The striking iridescent colours displayed on beetles, butterflies and other insects have long fascinated both physicists and biologists, but mimicking nature's…
Previous studies have shown that education offers some degree of protection against the symptoms of disorders of the brain.“This mechanism has previously been…
With funding from the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning and the Swedish International Development…
A study of undergraduates in a five-year Brazilian forestry program finds that what students perceive as important change as they progress through program….
“There is a misconception that the overall increase of cesarean births is the result of maternal request,” says lead author Gillian Hanley, a PhD student in…
A team of planetary scientists has used radar and a high-resolution camera to reveal the subsurface geology of Mars' northern ice cap.The findings – based on…
Oxides of transition metals such as titanium are of interest for applications, such as hydrogen gas sensors or as catalysts, and have intriguing fundamental…
In human babies, a defective maternal Ube3a gene causes a developmental condition known as Angelman syndrome that leads to mental retardation, speech…
Although satellites and aircraft can help show the extent of the spill at the surface, MBARI's autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) will help researchers…
One such application enables queries answered by a digital text to be generated when it is opened, and then used to search for specific information in the text.
“There could be major consequences for the Baltic’s sensitive ecosystem,” says researcher Daniel Hansson.The Baltic is a young, brackish sea with a unique and…
However, there is no further deterioration in memory, and some patients may even recover some of their memory capacity, reveals a thesis from the University of…
The hail sensor developed by Prof. Dr. Löffler-Mang at University of Applied Sciences in Saarbrücken is suitable for the automatic registration of hail and for…
The mysteries of the Universe and how we came to be are set to be unlocked by a technique for modelling fluids, similar to one which is becoming increasingly…
A group of “color-coded” laboratory mice are providing researchers with a novel way of tracking T-cells, enabling them to visualize and monitor the cellular…