A few million years before the catastrophic event that led to the extinction of dinosaurs (with the exception of birds), several species of hadrosaurs…
Prevalence of lactose intolerance may be far lower than previously estimated, according to a study in the latest issue of Nutrition Today. The study, which…
Researchers from McMaster University in Hamilton, ON, Canada, studied 17 women with asthma during their menstrual cycles. Results showed that individuals not…
The German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris VI (UPMC), Paris, France are now establishing the first international,…
Around three per cent of all children born in Sweden are test-tube babies resulting from IVF (in vitro fertilisation). “There are considerable discrepancies…
Two articles in the European Respiratory Journal's November issue are dedicated to this dangerous and versatile microorganism.For many years, MRSA infections…
Examining nitrogen deposition in alpine and subalpine lakes in Colorado, Sweden and Norway, James Elser, a limnologist in the School of Life Sciences at…
Findings from the genome sequence have important implications for improved breeding of horses, which constitute a $39 billion industry in the United States…
“The Kenyan Rift volcanoes are part of a larger Great Rift Valley complex that extends all the way from Mozambique to Djibouti; their presence in East Africa…
The so-called letter to shareholders is particularly important, since it allows the CEO to come forth and describe the company's operations in a rather…
“Men and women with asthma differ biologically, socially, culturally and psychologically, which affects their quality of life,” says Rosita Sundberg, a…
The thesis is based on the Prospective Population Study of Women in Gothenburg, which was started at the end of the 1960s when almost 1,500 women between the…
Harvard materials scientists have come up with what they believe is a new way to model the formation of glasses, a type of amorphous solid that includes common…
Physicists at Harvard University have created a quantum gas microscope that can be used to observe single atoms at temperatures so low the particles follow the…
Air quality in homes, offices, and other indoor spaces is becoming a major health concern, particularly in developed countries where people often spend more…
The structure that has been developed in the university's Organic Chemistry laboratory is fascinatingly complex: thousands of similar molecules are packed…