He takes the perspective of alien explorers arriving on earth – their geologists study the layers of rock, using the many clues to piece together its history…
For more than two decades, astronomers have intensively studied supernova 1987A, an exploding star that had behaved like no other. Instead of growing dimmer…
According to Rongjia Tao, Chair of Temple’s Physics Department, the small device consists of an electrically charged tube that can be attached to the fuel line…
“There’s a big hole in current therapies, in that all of them prevent new infection, but none attack the cells that are already infected and hidden from the…
The Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt is an expanse of bedrock exposed on the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in northern Quebec and was first recognized in 2001 as a…
“This kind of information provides a target for the production of drugs against cancer,” said Dr. Bert O'Malley, chair of molecular and cellular biology at…
CF is a common hereditary disease that affects multiple organ systems, including the intestines, pancreas, and lung. Mice with CF-causing mutations have helped…
For years, physicists have been heralding the revolutionary potential of using quantum mechanics to build a new generation of supercomputers, unbreakable…
This study, is described in a research published on 21 June 2008, in the World Journal of Gastroenterology. Performed by a team led by Dr. HY Wang.P120-catenin…
A new article published in Current Protocols in Microbiology provides detailed instructions for constructing and using low-cost biological sand (biosand)…
The advance – described by the researchers as 'very significant' – could lead to new drugs being developed to target a protein that plays a critical role in…
The latest estimates of annual CO2 emissions indicate also that the pattern of emissions has changed markedly since the drafting of the United Nations…
A detailed analysis of the incidence of these four different kinds of cancer, carried out on more than 300,000 English cancer patients and published today in…
Images taken by the AMIE camera carried by ESA’s SMART-1 mission have been used to create digital elevation model of the peak, which is almost continuously…
The Global Carbon Project posted the most recent figures for the worlds’ carbon budget, a key to understanding the balance of carbon added to the atmosphere,…
The cellular oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes are analogous to the accelerator and brake pedals in a car. If an oncogene is permanently active, similar to…
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