“Earlier stage breast cancers are more likely to be curable,” said lead researcher Ellen Warner, M.D., M.Sc., medical oncologist in the Department of Medicine,…
In ancient times, people with exceptional vision discovered that one of the brightest stars in the Big Dipper was, in fact, two stars so close together that…
Scripps Institution of Oceanography / University of California, San DiegoThe sound level of songs blue whales sing across the vast expanses of the ocean to…
Even small errors made by cells during protein production can have profound disease effects, and nature has developed ways to uncover these mistakes and…
The burst occurred January 2, 2009. NASA’s Swift satellite observed its position and immediately notified telescopes all over the world via the Internet. When…
Even international companies are embedded in their regional context; this is one of the main messages of the CURE project. They depend on regional workforces,…
The campaign aims to raise awareness about the importance of lung health, generate social and political support for preventing and treating lung disease, and…
Modern techniques based on intense laser pulses may in the future replace expensive conventional particle accelerators. A team of physicists of the Cluster of…
The MSU researchers for the first time were able to produce in the laboratory proteins that help channel sodium ions through cell membranes of parasites known…
Siemens has confirmed its objective to become one of the world’s top providers of wind turbines. Siemens entered the wind power market five years ago with its…
Astronomers identify the object as 3C 454.3, an active galaxy located 7.2 billion light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. But even among active…
On December 10 at 09:00 UTC (4 a.m. ET) Tropical Storm Cleo) was located approximately 380 nm south-southwest of the island of Diego Garcia, near 13.5 degrees…
Now, researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, Purdue University and IBM have successfully grown silicon-germanium…
A team of scientists from The University of Alabama used worms to reel in information that they hope will lead to a greater understanding of cellular…
This structuring process aims at improving the function of these inner ear implants and thereby increase the hearing ability of people who are deaf or hearing…
Why this is so is still largely unknown, but now the DNA of the spruce is going to be mapped by Swedish researchers from Umeå Plant Science Center (a…