For most of us, gold is only valuable if we possess it in large-sized pieces. However, the “bigger is better” rule isn’t the case for those interested in…
Comparing anti-fungals produced by tobacco and henbane, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies discovered that only a few mutations in a key…
* The Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism – Features recognizes excellence in reporting, generally produced with deadlines of longer…
Bernd Winter and colleagues, from BESSY, Max-Born-Institut, Uppsala University, and MPI für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation, report in the current issue of…
Once considered rare and exotic objects, black holes are now known to exist throughout the Universe, with the largest and most massive found at the centres of…
Gone are the good old days when farmers knew all their cows by name. There is little time left for the animals in today’s dairy industry. And it is easy to…
Prime Argentine steak accompanied by a good French wine, with strawberries from Spain as dessert. And mood music playing on a stereo system made in Japan. Most…
The lighter an aircraft is, the less fuel it consumes. Given the need to cut carbon dioxide emissions, this is a key aspect of materials research. Aircraft…
What effects do new drugs have on the human body – particularly at cellular level? Can doctors administer them without risk, or do they have toxic side…
Planets could be home to other forms of life, so the study of exoplanets ranks very high in contemporary astronomy. More than 300 planets are already known to…
The “LaserCoat” research project in a collaborative research effort consisting of eight academic, research and commercial organisations and part-financed by…
Issac Asimov, widely regarded as the spiritual father of science fiction, outlined three rules that all robots in his future worlds must obey. The most…
Geophysicists at Liverpool have produced a mathematical technique to process satellite data that can map the thickness of the Earth’s crust under the oceans in…
The funding will particularly assist in their efforts at the leading European facilities FAIR/GSI at Darmstadt in Germany and SPIRAL2 at Caen in France. The…
The correction of the problem will require the replacement of this unit. In order to perform this operation, it will be necessary to de-mate the launcher's…
This has been established by Ingemar Jönsson, a researcher at Kristianstad University in Sweden.It has been nearly a year since the ecologist Ingemar Jönsson…
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