The award has been granted in response to PANGAEA's implementation and successful operation of a unique information system for archiving, publishing and…
Each year, the global high-performance computing community announces the TOP500, a list of the world’s most powerful computers. At this year’s International…
Bloodsucking pests like bat fleas and bat flies may not sound very appealing to the rest of us, but to University at Buffalo biologist Katharina Dittmar de la…
And yes, said several Iowa State University students who have joined Tim Samaras, a Colorado-based researcher who was named a National Geographic Society…
Forget delays, lines and ticket costs — for many people, flying isn’t just an aggravation, it’s an outright phobia.Thanks to research conducted by an…
More than 15 years ago scientists discovered a way to stop a particular gene in its tracks. The Nobel Prize-winning finding holds tantalizing promise for…
The method, detailed in the current issue of Nature Nanotechnology, uses scanning near-field ultrasonic holography to clearly see nanoparticles residing within…
Prior to the federal Clean Air Act, unhindered industrial emissions were released into the air throughout the Midwestern and Eastern United States for decades….
The new “lab-on-a-chip” can automatically position, image, determine the phenotype of and sort small animals, such as the worm Caenorhabditis elegans that is…
Among countless other debates about Homer's Odyssey — not the least of which is whether the entire poem can be attributed to Homer himself — is whether…
On 22 June, Universiti Sains Malaysia launched their Science and Arts Innovation Space in a bid to stem the brain drain, boost local innovation and attract…
“Urbanization” and “Demographic Change” are two of the big challenges that we face in the 21st century. A United Nations study estimates that two-thirds of the…
The compact and user-friendly switches measure reliably even if the conditions change, for example variations in the dielectric permittivity of a medium or the…
The researchers' proposed instrumentation could operate on any Mars lander or rover, they say, such as the current Phoenix mission or NASA's Mars Science…
In studies to determine how plasmids enter the nuclei of non-dividing cells, the group previously identified a region of a smooth muscle cell-specific promoter…
The WMG University of Warwick researchers based their model on data provided by the Institute of Animal Health at Pirbright, and from Oxford University. The…
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