One in five European workers are involved in some form of shift work. Health problems associated with shift work include sleep disturbances, fatigue, digestive…
DAB Surround® will lend a whole new quality to digital radio thanks to developments by the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in Erlangen….
A quick stop at the supermarket: Balancing bananas, peppers and tomatoes in your arms, you rush from the vegetable counter to the self-service scales in order…
The competition for the Olympic Games is becoming increasingly tougher. Cities and countries are fighting for the right to organise both the Winter and Summer…
The particle — shown at higher magnification than anything ever seen from another world — is a rounded particle about one micrometer, or one millionth of a…
Physicists from Rice and Rutgers universities have published a new theory that explains some of the complex electronic and magnetic properties of iron…
U.S. and Swiss scientists have made a breakthrough in understanding how a type of white blood cell called the eosinophil may help the body to fight bacterial…
When bumblebees return to the nest from a successful foraging mission, they produce a pheromone which encourages their nest mates to also go out and find food….
The first scientific mission with Sentry, a newly developed robot capable of diving as deep as 5,000 meters (3.1 miles) into the ocean, has been successfully…
The findings shed light on the processes that lead to the development of autoimmunity and could also have implications for the development of drugs to increase…
But preventing white blood cells' circulation by trapping them in the lymph nodes can help mice get rid of a chronic viral infection, researchers at Yerkes…
According to an article published in the August 26, 2008, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), air pollution has both short- and…
The finding, which could aid in development of new treatments for serious infections in human patients, will be reported in the August 14 issue of the journal…
It's the unusual chemistry facilitated by this molecule, however, that will attract the most attention from scientists.Marsha Lester, the University of…
Chronic hepatitis B infects 400 million people worldwide, many of them children. Even with three effective vaccines available, hepatitis B remains a stubborn,…
Carcasses of Southern Yellow-legged Frogs in Sixty Lake Basin in Sierra Nevada, California. The frogs died of chytridiomycosis, an amphibian disease caused by…
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