The molecular machinery that switches on a gene known to cause breast cancer to spread and invade other organs has been identified by an international team led…
But put males of each species as far as six car-lengths away from females, and even in the darkness of midnight they easily find their way to mates from their…
Switchgrass can be used in a number of biofuel applications, but moving it – especially feeding it into boilers – can be problematic, said Klein Ileleji, an…
The system works by shining near-infrared laser pulses through the skin to detect hollow nanocages and solid nanoparticles – made of an alloy of gold and…
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have solved the decade-old mystery of why human embryonic stem cells are so difficult to culture in the…
University of Oklahoma researchers are working with Chinese colleagues to better understand intraplate earthquakes—those occurring far from a tectonic plate…
Migraines, often characterized by excruciating headache and nausea, can cause significant distress. They can cause people affected by them to lose an average…
But the alternative mathematical behavioral finance models that have gained currency since the crisis imply that the rational market has not disappeared for…
According to the NSF, Aidala's award supports “the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and…
An animal study supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health, shows that by…
But what if regular people had information about how their Internet connections were performing at their fingertips? What if they could easily give priority to…
The findings, which have implications for computer program design the world over, will be presented at CHI 2010, the Association for Computing Machinery’s…
One such “pioneer species,” Ctenopelta porifera, appears to have traveled over 300 kilometers to settle at the site on the underwater mountain range known as…
Plants produce sugar during photosynthesis. Water is released into the environment in the form of water vapor. This is the responsibility of tiny “valves” on…
At the ARS National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research (NCAUR) in Peoria, Ill., ARS chemist Badal Saha conducted a 5-year study that examined whether…
The scientists' report, online today (April 9), will appear in a future issue of Nano Letters, an American Chemical Society journal.”Our interest stems from…
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