Using Venus Express, it is possible to compare what the planet looks like in different wavelengths, giving scientists a powerful tool to study the physical…
By using a Galactic cloud as interstellar “mirror” an international team led by Oliver Krause of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany has now…
A team of researchers co-ordinated by Dr. Stephen Hiscox, from the Welsh School of Pharmacy at Cardiff University, investigated the selective oestrogen…
Research in the theory of evolution includes a number of accepted theories about how men and women choose their partners. Among the more established ones is…
Alzheimer’s disease is the primary cause of age-related dementia. About 15 million people are affected by this neurodegenerative disease worldwide. It has so…
The Open Modbus/TCP software solution developed by Siemens enables easy integration of the entire Simatic automation family in heterogeneous or third-party…
The findings, presented in Nature, gives a first glimpse into the molecular architecture of animal egg coats, with important implications for the future of…
“This shows how easy it is to change the brain's perception of the physical self,” says Henrik Ehrsson, who led the project. “By manipulating sensory…
But Lena Örnberg, an economic historian at Lund University in Sweden, shows in her dissertation on contract farming and modernization that farmers do not have…
Morici predicts the trend to continue with this Friday’s release of November employment figures, forecasting the loss of nearly 300,000 more jobs.Based on U.S….
Politicians have an incentive to act in ways that benefit their re-election possibilities, and this means they may support policies and regulatory practices…
Having an imperfect body may come with some substantial benefits, according to a new article in the December issue of Current Anthropology.The hormones that…
The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will develop an action plan for building energy code enforcement that can be deployed in small…
In the commentary “Sustaining costal urban ecosystems” published in the latest issue of the London-based journal Nature Geoscience, Torbjörn E. Törnqvist,…
The new technique provides a detailed look into processes that until now were proven but never visualized. The more detailed view of DNA being made into RNA in…
The study, released today in Nature Cell Biology, is the first to specifically pinpoint a protein responsible for promoting cell repair. Led by Jianjie Ma,…