“We not only do not know what the stuff is, but we do not know where it is made or how it gets into space,” said Donald York, the Horace B. Horton Professor in…
A net with large holes won’t catch small fish. Likewise, the microscopic fibers in the protective mucus coatings of the eyes, lungs, stomach or reproductive…
When galaxies are born, do their stars form everywhere at once, or only within a small core region? Recent measurements of an international team led by…
“There is widespread concern that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet may be prone to collapse, resulting in a rise in global sea levels,” says geophysicist Jerry X….
With limited funding and an inadequate number of scientists, governments in countries containing “hotspots” of threatened biodiversity are wrestling with how…
The catastrophic increase in sea level, already projected to average between 16 and 17 feet around the world, would be almost 21 feet in such places as…
1 in 200 of our human genes can be inactivated with no detectable effect on our health. A study by Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute scientists raises new…
In the past, researchers needed either supercomputers or large computer clusters to run simulations. Or they had to be content to run only a tiny fraction of…
The study, which is published in the prestigious scientific journal Science, was conducted with the help of PET scanning and provides deeper insight into the…
Scientists at the RUB publish the results of their study in the Journal of Biological ChemistryPeroxisomes, multifaceted functional units within cells, fulfil…
The new therapy, called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), is a development of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. In Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, the…
The answer to what’s killing the world’s coral reefs may be found in a tiny chip that fits in the palm of your hand.Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National…
A Brown University research team has discovered something in the brain that could serve as a target for future autism and mental retardation treatments.Discovery of the novel Fragile X granule is detailed in the Feb. 4, 2009, issue of the Journal of Neuroscience. This finding opens a new line of research about potential treatments for autism, a neurological disorder that strikes young children and can impair development of social interaction and communication….
University of California at San Diego grad student Han Suk Kim is trying to narrow that performance gap so that VEs can one day be used for high-resolution…
The results are described online this week in the journal Circulation.The majority of people with diabetes have some form of neuropathy–damage to the…
Scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and an international team of collaborators have returned from a month-long deep-sea voyage to…
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