So how do we make the best decision? Psychologists Rocío García-Retamero and Jörg Rieskamp have analysed the influence that inferences about missing…
The researchers identified fast evolving human genes by comparing our genome with those of other primates. However, surprisingly, the patterns of molecular…
State-of-the-art equipment will be accessible to clinicians, research scientists and industryA new Science Foundation Ireland-funded Flow Cytometry Facility in…
For their experiment at the Ecological-Botanical Garden of the University of Bayreuth the researchers installed underground heating on their plots, thereby…
Mother nature is a smart builder. The cell structure of bones and honeycombs, for example, is particularly resilient and gets by with extremely little…
Americans who use illegal diet pills from South America are taking amphetamines without knowing it and seriously risking both their health and their jobs….
Hip prostheses do not hold forever. If an implant comes loose, the doctors have to replace it. Most patients need this second operation after about 15 years….
Be they ball bearings in bicycles, slide bearings in the crankshafts of ships, or high-performance bearings in motor sports – bearings fulfill a wide range of…
Much of the diversity remains hidden ‘under the surface’ in buffered form. This has been revealed by research conducted by the University of Groningen,…
Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology describe the creation of the flies that, when released into a wild population, could out-compete the…
Evolutionary biologists use two ways to study the evolution of prehistoric plants and animals: firstly they use radioactive dating techniques to put fossils in…
In the final phase of the competition there were 16 research teams from different European universities who presented their projects at the ESA European…
However the UK research team also found that frequent sexual activity in a man’s forties appears to have little effect and even small levels of activity in a…
Jon Chamberlain, from Essex's School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, explains: ‘Human language is not an unconnected series of words, phrases…
HRH Abdulrahman Bandar Al-Saud, 34, a nephew of the King, is studying for a PhD in the United Kingdom at Queen’s University Belfast’s School of Chemistry and…
At a meeting held today, two years after the building was opened, the architects, planners and clients concluded that the results, in terms of energy use and…
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