To date they had been merely regarded as stars which were below normal size. However, they may well be stellar ‘miscarriages’. The astronomers are publishing…
The gene was localized using cutting edge technologies for examining the whole human genome at the Helmholtz Zentrum München.The newly discovered FCER1A gene…
ETH Zurich biologists, led by Professors Martin Ackermann and Wolf-Dietrich Hardt, in collaboration with Michael Doebeli of the University of British Colombia…
The team, partly funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), made the discovery after developing computer simulations of giant clouds of…
Cancer affects one in three people at some point in their lives, with most cancer deaths being caused by the development of secondary tumours in other parts of…
The non-randomised phase II trial, published in the online journal ecancermedicalscience, investigated the combination of thalidomide and temozolomide. It is…
The results achieved at the Centre of Excellence in Learning and Motivation Research were presented at the Academy of Finland’s science breakfast on 21 August.
The new observational study describes how air rises and falls in the atmosphere above the Earth’s surface, creating the world’s weather. This process of…
The study, conducted in conjunction with Prof. Jon Driver at University College London, revealed that the perceived direction of motion from a given visual…
In many forms of cancer, the growth of tumors and their ability to spread are stimulated by a mutated gene that codes for a so-called RAS protein. This has led…
Karl A Franklin from University Hospital Umeå, Sweden, and a team of Nordic researchers questioned more than sixteen thousand randomly selected people from…
The results of the WISDOM study will be published on BMJ.com on Friday 22 August 2008 (note: this BMJ article is embargoed until 00.01 UK time, Friday 22nd…
“Our goal is to bring awareness of the technology to the public,” said team leader Trey Riddle, a graduate student in Cornell's Department of Mechanical and…
The new report, published this week by Developmental Cell and selected as the featured publication of the open-access online edition, describes how three…
“This is what would happen during a major earthquake along the Mississippi River,” says Luna, an associate professor of civil, architectural and environmental…
The research is producing new experimental methods, data acquisition, and theoretical understanding. Recently, scientists from the U.S. Salinity Laboratory,…
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