Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have answered a central question in cancer biology: whether normal stem cells can give rise to tumors. Stem…
Sanders, who is also the iCORE Chair of Quantum Information Science, has produced a four-minute animated movie with a team of animators and scientists. The…
Researchers used NASA's TOPEX/Poseidon satellite and the European Space Agency's ENVISAT satellite to measure the height and extent of flooding in North…
Here's another argument against intelligent design. An evolutionary geneticist from the Université de Montréal, together with researchers from the French…
An international research team has compiled the first catalogue of tissue-specific pathologies underlying hundreds of inherited diseases. These results provide…
By using simultaneous monitoring, the scientists have identified biological and demographic features of the plants that could help to optimise conservation…
Physicians could use their system to provide patients with a personal risk factor and so advise on lifestyle changes or medication to lower their risk.It is…
It concludes that TB is the most important infectious disease in China. Millions of people from Asia, South America and Africa are carriers of latent TB…
Whilst gender and mental health problems are the most important risk factors for contemplating suicide, it is increasingly acknowledged that traumatic…
Clicking and scrolling interrupt our attentional focus. Turning and touching the pages instead of clicking on the screen influence our ability for experience…
It turns out that humans, primates, some birds, and possibly other higher animals have mirror neurons that fire in the same pattern whether performing or just…
However, this strong approval for in vitro fertilization dissipates in other scenarios such as using the technique to choose a baby’s sex (with scores below 3…
Two new high-resolution transmission electron microscopes, co-financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), are set to…
The spacecraft's magnetometer instrument (MAG) detected the unmistakable signature of hydrogen gas being stripped from the day-side. “This is a process that…
Research published in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology has shown that parasitoid wasps are likely to attack the empty shells, resulting in a…
The SIMDAT project has created a portfolio of tools and services that can finally bring the power of grid computing to industrial applications. Grids capture…
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