Those suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) often complain that exercise is too exhausting and leaves them breathless. An article in the…
Chemists at New York University and Harvard University have created a bipedal, autonomous DNA “walker” that can mimic a cell's transportation system. The…
As organisms go through the stages of life, hormones coordinate the changes. Nuclear receptors respond to hormones to coordinate stage transitions, but how…
The critical question: How many synapses, or junctures where nerve cells communicate with each other, are modified by sleep? Neurologists believe creation of…
Sigma-receptors have been in the focus of drug discovery
for several years, being classified into two subtypes,
…
The new virus-produced batteries have the same energy capacity and power performance as state-of-the-art rechargeable batteries being considered to power…
Now, a study published in the April 3 edition of the journal Science has molecular and structural evidence of that woolly feeling — proteins that build up in…
The robot, called Adam, is a computer system that fully automates the scientific process. The work will be published today (03 April 2009) in the journal…
But in order to utilize the novel properties of nanowires, their composition must be precisely controlled, and researchers must better understand just exactly…
Dr. Paul DeLaune, environmental soil scientist at the Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Vernon, said tillage operations can increase soil…
Researchers from the UBC Biodiversity Research Centre created mini-ecosystems in large aquatic tanks using different species of three-spine stickleback fish…
The machines will be installed in the Çanakkale-Mahmudiye wind farm in the North Western part of Turkey. The contract covers the delivery, installation,…
Keeping it safe from disease has become, in part, the task of a group of three researchers from Iowa State University and one from Kansas State University.The…
That is 10 times longer than most field botanists had believed.Using the Lab's Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry to measure the amount of carbon 14 in…
Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have proposed a sweeping new theory of autism that suggests that the brains of people…
Economist Maria Persson has studied how trade between the EU and developing countries could be increased. Over the last ten years this issue has been discussed…
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