Antimatter is made up of elementary particles, each of which has the same mass as their corresponding matter counterparts –protons, neutrons and electrons –…
The discovery, which was made by comparing the impact of inactivating a gene that occurs in both corn and in the much-studied laboratory plant Arabidopsis,…
DNA, it has turned out, isn't all it was cracked up to be. In recent years we learned that the molecule of life, the discovery of the 20th century, did not –…
In a new analysis, researchers at the University of Illinois found that measuring the quality of romantic relationships is more complex than these earlier…
A huge market is developing for small disposable electronic devices, ranging from security tags to point-of-care diagnostics. Many of these devices require a…
An animal’s reproductive capabilities are established early in development, when a homogeneous embryonic cell population gives rise to two distinct cell…
Southern New Hampshire University’s Go-Getters Challenge, a two-month campaign to award one contestant a free Global M.B.A., named Jennifer Allen, of Mexico…
On October 31, 2008, the first virtual power plant operated by Siemens Energy and RWE Energy came on line. In a first phase nine hydroelectric facilities…
In a paper published in the journal Science today, scientists Gabriel A. Vecchi of NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Kyle L. Swanson of the…
In this study, published in the magazine Food and Chemical Toxicology, the researchers aimed to prove that since the principal toxicity mechanism of lead…
The Cologne archaeologist Dr. Ralf Vogelsang from the Africa Research Centre of the Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology and a team of international…
The performance of DVB-S2 satellite systems is very close to the theoretical maximum, defined by the Shannon Limit. That efficiency could be pushed even…
A resounding vote of international petroleum geologists from around the globe concluded that the mud volcano was triggered by drilling of a nearby gas…
As demand for data-intensive services, such as video-on-demand and online gaming increases, telecommunications providers are expanding the high-speed fibre…
Power stations, oil refineries, factories and other types of industrial plant will, when some more development work has been done, be much better able to work…
This important step in plant modification can be highly beneficial for improving crop yields and efficiency in the agricultural sector. This research was…
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