Understanding climate and rainfall through geologic time is crucial because they relate to plant and animal evolution, ecosystem function and the hydrological…
Guichard says marine life can communicate over thousands of kilometres, calling into question current fishery management and marine preservation practices. “If…
Researchers in British Columbia, Canada, have used a technique known as ecological niche modeling to identify likely areas where a potentially lethal fungus…
The team demonstrated that natural selection acting on the species of algae living within corals may determine which partnerships will survive when confronted…
The fins of the heating head of a stirling-engine will be strongly contaminated by the combustion with biomass with dust and smoke particles so that the heat…
We offer a lidocaine/prilocaine combination for the treatment or prevention of solar urticaria. Up to now the lidocaine/prilocaine combination is used for…
Purple bacteria were among the first life forms on Earth. They are single celled microscopic organisms that play a vital role in sustaining the tree of life….
A simple salad spinner will save lives this summer, if everything goes as planned by two Rice University undergraduates. The spinner has been turned, so to…
Dr. Geoff Andersen, senior researcher at the Laser and Optics Research Center at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, is leading a team of…
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers have isolated a microalgal strain which produces large amounts of a polyunsaturated fatty acid that could…
Cary Mitchell, professor of horticulture, and Gioia Massa, a horticulture research scientist, tested several cultivars of strawberries and found one variety,…
A widely and safely used plant extract acts as a novel anti-inflammatory agent that may one day be used for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary…
The mouse model, which expresses the same mutant proteins as human Parkinson’s patients, also displays early signs of constipation and other gastrointestinal…
Dr. Ed Breitschwerdt, professor of internal medicine in the Department of Clinical Sciences, is among the world’s leading experts on Bartonella, a bacteria…
In the largest Canadian study of non-melanoma skin cancer, Andrei Metelitsa, Gordon Jung and their research group have found skin cancer rates in Alberta are…
According to a new study by researchers at the Carnegie Institution for Science, in some regions more than a quarter of the warming from increased carbon…