Michael Banks, Physics World’s News Editor, quantifies this surge in scientific output from China and asks whether quality matches quantity in August’s Physics…
Their discovery suggests a novel kind of molecular learning mechanism. The study, published in the journal “Current Biology”, may help understanding the…
It's not just bomb-sniffing dogs; animals everywhere rely on their sense of smell. Now, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Rockefeller University researchers…
PRACE aims to consolidate the bases of a European supercomputing infrastructure, and the BSC is one the main partners.The work done with this prototype, called…
A recent international study has shown that high levels of alcohol and drug consumption among Europe’s young people could affect their decision making and…
In a study published tomorrow (1 August) in the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, researchers show that warfarin reduces the scarring on the liver caused…
Earth and computer scientists from 79 nations are working together on a global project called OneGeology to produce the first digital geological map of the…
Many of us have been fascinated by the concept of absolute zero, the temperature at which everything comes to a complete stop. But physics tells us otherwise:…
The signal will be relayed by the Shelios expedition, which is on its way to Novosibirsk. The expedition will satellite broadcast the video and audio to the…
Phobos is what scientists call a ‘small irregular body’. Measuring 27 km × 22 km × 19 km, it is one of the least reflective objects in the Solar System,…
For many years now, scientists have understood the molecular mechanisms that enable animals to sense dangerous temperatures; such as extremely high…
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine might have an answer, at least in fruit flies. In a recent study of fruit flies, they…
“What we suspected turned out to be true,” Nasreen confirmed. “The extracts from the microbes in the water proved to be potential sources of antibiotics or…
The new findings, from researchers at the University of Illinois, appear this month in the journal Global Change Biology.Using corn or switchgrass to produce…
A collaboration of Chinese and American physicists has discovered a way to make a new carbon structure that could lead to fabrics 30 times stronger than Kevlar…
Research scientists found changes in the structure of the genes in patients with schizophrenia when they studied what are known as copy number variants.Genetic…
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