The new breed blooms longer, produces more flowers and grows under a wider range of temperatures than existing cherry blossom trees, demonstrating the power of…
Shinjiro YamaguchiTeam LeaderCellular Growth and Development Research TeamRIKEN Plant Science CenterHigh-school biology textbooks describe auxin, cytokinin,…
Scientists have sequenced the genome of the soybean plant, Glycine max, an important agricultural crop. As reported in the journal Nature1, the sequencing was…
The supernova remnant known as the Jellyfish Nebula and IC 443 lies 5,000 light years away from Earth in the Gemini constellation. Left after a stellar…
“We have known for more than a decade that in the early universe – three to five billion years after the Big Bang or nine to eleven billion years before today…
Perception of second language speech is easier when it is spoken in the accent of the listener and not in the 'original' accent of that language, shows a new…
The Consumer Debt Stress Index (DSI) dropped by slightly more than 2 percent in January, from 119.8 to 117.4“We’re seeing increased confidence among consumers…
Their findings could lay the groundwork for future researchers seeking to develop a new generation of computer chips and other information-storage devices that…
By applying a commercially available spin-on-glass (SOG) material to graphene and then exposing it to electron-beam radiation, researchers at the Georgia…
Research from the University of Gothenburg estimates climate change to decrease the number of days with temperatures below zero degrees in West Midlands. It…
The research group, which was led by Professor Johan Frostegård, has previously demonstrated that high levels of a certain type of antibody (anti-PC) in the…
Their findings could lay the groundwork for future researchers seeking to develop a new generation of computer chips and other information-storage devices that…
For this purpose Fraunhofer researchers at HHI Berlin developed the cross-layer design SVC over LTE – a coding method that offers HD films in real-time in the…
Doctors have known that bile, found in the intestine, inhibits the expression of the virulence genes in V. cholerae, but until now, the mechanism behind this…
“We want to know: What role is this self-cannibalization playing in the middle of a tumor?” said team member Hilary Coller, an assistant professor of molecular…
A study found that people who used computer simulations to learn about moon phases understood the concepts just as well – and in some cases better – than did…