Swiss researchers examining exposure pathways for a common chemical used in plastic containers and linings of cans find infants have the highest estimated…
Hermetic packaging poses particular challenges for the production technology, which can no longer be met by conventional methods such as gluing and soldering….
The researchers, led by Durham University's Department of Physics, observed the massive galaxy as it would have appeared just three billion years after the Big…
At the end of the Pleistocene (10,000 years ago), the increase in temperatures brought an end to the alpine marmot (Marmota marmota) in the Pyrenees, but…
Scientists have long known that mosquitoes can detect octenol, but this most recent finding by ARS entomologists Joseph Dickens and Jonathan Bohbot explains in…
Joseph Garner, a Purdue assistant professor of animal sciences, said the finding challenges the assumption in drug discovery and related fields that animal…
A recent Kansas State University study found that the availability of supermarkets — rather than the lack of them –increased the risk of obesity for…
A Princeton University-led research team has discovered that protein competition over an important enzyme provides a mechanism to integrate different signals…
“The outfit is made of material with integrated sensors that react when someone comes close or touches it,” says Dan Riley, who was responsible for the…
Clouds play a double role in the Earth's climate. On the one hand, they reflect back to space sunlight shining on the Planet; on the other hand clouds reduce…
“Public money should in the future only be spent on public goods, especially for environmental protection and nature conservation. Subsidising agriculture with…
The prevalence of multicore technologies has brought ubiquitous parallelism and a huge theoretical potential for compute-intensive tasks. In theory,…
What began as research into how diabetics could possibly preserve their eyesight has led to findings that could prolong the vision of children afflicted with…
During embryonic development, proteins attach to cell receptors and start a cascade of reactions. Understanding those reactions is difficult, however, because…
For more than half a century, products containing ion exchange resins have been used in patients with dangerously high levels of potassium. However, there is…
In the future, getting a broadband connection might be as simple as flipping on a light switch. In fact, according to a group of researchers from Germany, the…
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