For the first time the methodological possibilities are available to map the entire spectrum of lipids in cells, tissues and whole organisms. Europe has so far…
In the framework of Holst Centre, IMEC – Europe’s leading independent nanoelectronics research institute – has broadened the functionality and scope of its…
By means of the mirror and mark test that is often used with human children and apes the authors show that Magpies take their mirror image for a reflection of…
The social and cultural background of the Iceman, dubbed Oetzi, has been the subject of much debate since his mummified remains were discovered in an Alpine…
According to Dolores Malaspina from NYU School of Medicine and lead author of the study, “The stresses in question are those that would be experienced in a…
Jia-Hai Lu, from the School of Public Health at Sun Yat-Sen University, China, led a team of researchers who studied the rabies trend in China between 1990 and…
German research vessel Polarstern, operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association, transits the Northwest…
Heather Munroe-Blum, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University, and Dr. Arthur T. Porter, Director General and Chief Executive Officer of the McGill…
An international team of engineers is to develop mission-critical control software for future European robotic space missions, it has been announced.Dr. Declan…
Though skin cancer is deadly to male fish, it also has one perk: The black melanoma splotches arise from attractive natural markings that lure female mates. A…
Different keys are not supposed to fit the same lock, but in biological systems multiple versions of a catalyst all make a reaction go, according to a new…
A new algorithm developed by computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego helps answer that question, at least for computer networks, and it…
Platelets – those tiny, unassuming cells that cause blood to clot and scabs to form when you cut yourself – play an important early role in promoting cerebral…
UC researchers have found that more than 30 percent of American public schools are within 400 meters, or a quarter mile, of major highways that consistently…
In the first study to look at the relationship between not getting enough sleep and blood pressure in healthy adolescents, researchers found that healthy teens…
A team of scientists from Aston’s Ophthalmic Research Group (ORG) are looking for healthy 20-65 year olds to take part in a free health check – results of…