Now, in an ambitious initiative scientists want to apply this concept to life by using DNA – nature's unique barcode of every species of animal, plant and…
Research published today in the open access journal BMC Microbiology describes the use of a dye, indocyanine green, which produces bacteria-killing chemicals…
Stéphanie Bayol and Neil Stickland at the Royal Veterinary College, London fed female rats a “junk food” diet of crisps, cheese, muffins and other processed…
Researchers: Sabira Khatun and Borhanuddin Mohd. AliThe present invention relates to Internet Protocol version six (IPv6) as a wireless network infrastructure….
Now researchers at the University of Illinois have identified a key step in the cellular recycling of ATP that allows your body to produce enough of it to…
A detailed analysis of data from nearly 50 years of weekly fish-trawl surveys in Narragansett Bay and adjacent Rhode Island Sound has revealed a long-term…
Ground-breaking technology that will enable biologists to identify and monitor large numbers of endangered animals, from butterflies to whales, without being…
The ancestors of maize originally grew wild in Mexico and were radically different from the plant that is now one of the most important crops in the world….
In the late 19th century Gregor Mendel used peas to show that one copy of a gene (allele) is inherited from the mother and one from the father. In the progeny,…
The closest wild relative of maize, teosinte, does not look very promising as food. The ear is tiny compared to the domesticated one, and the grains are…
The transistor is one of the basic building blocks of modern electronics, and the life expectancy or reliability of a transistor is often projected based on…
This finding, announced at a workshop last month,* has attracted considerable interest because of its implications for future manufacturing. If the…
The NIST team also demonstrated that key process variables are linked to relatively quick and inexpensive electrochemical measurements, pointing the way to a…
Now, Cornell researchers have developed a method to self-assemble metals into complex nanostructures. Applications include making more efficient and cheaper…
In a Nature Physics journal paper currently online, the researchers describe how they have created a new, hybrid molecule in which its quantum state can be…
The research supports a theory which suggests that exhausted individuals' cardiovascular systems are forced to work harder when they attempt to complete tasks,…
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