Using this new database, the researchers show that clear sky visibility over land has decreased globally over the past 30 years, indicative of increases in…
Engineers at the University of Leicester have invented a new technique in the manufacture of ceramics that has the potential to save the industry time and…
Natural releases of carbon dioxide from the Southern Ocean due to shifting wind patterns could have amplified global warming at the end of the last ice…
In a Canadian study, the presence of nearby parks was strongly associated with girls walking to school and boys engaging in leisure walking. For every…
Their discovery, detailed in the March 13 issue of Science, solves a longstanding puzzle about the underlying biochemical mechanisms that control plant clocks…
The new therapy may offer a way to protect the lungs from the “runaway inflammation” that can accompany bacterial or viral pneumonia, said Jacek Hawiger, M.D.,…
Researchers at the University of Miami and at the Universities of Tokyo and Tohoku, Japan, have been able to prove the existence of a “spin battery,” a battery…
The W boson is a carrier of the weak nuclear force and a key element of the Standard Model of elementary particles and forces. The particle, which is about 85…
Environmental organizations have raised concerns for decades about the environmental impact of the burning of fossil fuels – particularly coal – for energy….
In the paper, “Contagion of Wishful Thinking in Markets,” researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and Cornell University demonstrate how wishful…
The research is available online and featured on cover of the March issue of Molecular Ecology.Some large organisms like aspen trees and sea anemones are…
A gas used for fumigation has the potential to contribute significantly to future greenhouse warming, but because its production has not yet reached high…
“Injecting particles into the stratosphere could have unintended consequences for one alternative energy source expected to play a role in the transition away…
Presumably effective April 1, 2009, Siemens Medical Solutions GSD GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens Healthcare Sector, will take over all use and…
Many bacteria are able to “swim” through liquids by means of a flagellum. When doing this, some bacteria follow attractants, some flee from harmful substances,…
Although scientists have known for more than a century that small populations of closely related plants or animals are likely to suffer from low reproductive…
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