But University of Florida scientists have found the opposite is true. In a study with wide implications for a longstanding debate over whether agricultural…
However, detecting them isn't so easy.Enter Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists, who discovered a new physical phenomenon that enables them to…
Diversity among the ancestors of such marine creatures as clams, sand dollars and lobsters showed only a modest rise beginning 144 million years ago with no…
But University of Florida geologists say they have found strong evidence that a half-dozen major basins in India were formed a billion or more years ago,…
Shear and Kaehr fabricated a variety of detailed three-dimensional microstructures, known as hydrogels, and have shown that they can expand and bend the…
Multi drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes TB, sparked concern but the recent emergence of extensively…
Now, scientists have discovered a way to protect against death following infection with plague bacteria, by using molecules that can mimic the pathogens….
The drug combines sumatriptan, a migraine-specific drug that affects the constriction of blood vessels, with naproxen sodium, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory…
The study, from researchers at the University of Illinois and the Illinois Natural History Survey, appears this month in Integrative and Comparative Biology….
MESSENGER data has also identified and mapped surface rock units that correspond to lava flows, volcanos, and other geological features. At the same time, the…
Recent studies have shown that humans who hunt wild primates, including chimpanzees, can acquire SFV infections. Since the long-term consequences of these…
“We now know more about what Mercury's made of than ever before,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, a professor in the departments of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space…
Taking advantage of a unique cosmic coincidence, astronomers have measured an effect predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity in the…
The ecological and economic consequences are difficult to predict but possibly calamitous, warn a team of chemical oceanographers in the July 4 issue of…
“Some of the time periods in the past are analogies for what is happening today from global warming,” says Jocelyn Sessa, doctoral candidate in geosciences,…
Researchers at McGill University's Department of Physics – along with colleagues from several countries – have confirmed a long-held prediction of Albert…