It is the first time scientists have shown that inhibiting an enzyme involved in programmed cell death can protect a brain region in a living animal from…
Hidden away in museums for more that 100 years, some recently rediscovered flatfish fossils have filled a puzzling gap in the story of evolution and answered a…
Imagine having three clocks in your house, each chiming at a different time.Astronomers have found the equivalent of three out-of-sync “clocks” in the ancient…
A well-nursed prejudice in scholarly communication is that researchers avoid journalists and are disappointed with the coverage when they do have contact with…
The invention is a model of human expectations and judgments respectively. When you show some humans the probabilities of some constituent facts and you ask…
The aim is to protect smallholders from wild animals and the forest and its animals from poachers. The Rhino Charge involves one day's careful off-road driving…
Tiny electronically active chemicals can be made to form ordered layers on a surface, thanks to research supported by the European Science Foundation (ESF)…
Scientists can diagnose genetic disorders such as Down’s syndrome by using gene markers, or “probes”, which bind to only highly similar chains of DNA. Once…
Complex structuresWind turbine blades are highly sophisticated products, composed of a variety of materials and composites. They are safety relevant components…
The same researchers already broke the first part of the codes last autumn, and have now put together a comprehensive picture of how the immune system checks…
Briscoe receives the award in recognition of his discovery that cells integrate time of exposure and concentration of a morphogen to subsequently mount a…
In the FDA-monitored study, Dr. Norman D. Radtke of University of Louisville, Ky., lead author of the study and colleagues performed the experimental…
Genetic recombination, the process by which sexually reproducing organisms shuffle their genetic material when producing germ cells, leads to offspring with a…
Most of the meteorites that we collect on Earth come from the main belt of asteroids located between Mars and Jupiter [1]. They were ejected from their…
Miniaturisation plays a crucial economic role to-day and contributes significantly to the key technologies of the 21st century; however, the smaller the…
Scientists have been working for decades so that the interaction between people and computers be more natural and intuitive. In fact, a great part of the…
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