The beads, known to geologists as carbon cenospheres, cannot be formed through the combustion of plant matter, contradicting a hypothesis that the cenospheres…
A team led by University of Washington scientists has found that while temperature changes will be much more extreme at high latitudes, tropical species have a…
Ground crystalline molybdenum sulfide (MoS2) has reliably proven itself as a universal and inert solid lubricant. Its lubricity could lately be outperformed by…
Gliomas, especially secondary glioblastomas, are affected
with hypermethylation of the promoter region of the
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A spidery fungus with a voracious appetite for military uniforms and canvas tents could hold the key to improvements in the production of biofuels, a team of…
“The plague bacterium Yersinia pestis needs calcium in order to grow at body temperature. When there is no calcium available, it produces a large amount of an…
Without a protein called Nix, the cells would not effectively rid themselves of organelles called mitochondria and consequently become short-lived, leading to…
Principal Investigator : Kohei ITOHFaculty of Science and Technology, Keio UniversityKeywords : Quantum computer, nanotechnology, unprecedented technology,…
The existence of the tenuous hot gas, which is believed to be located within the connecting threads of the enormous cosmic web, was predicted by theoreticians…
This was the topic of the recent EuroQUAM inauguration conference, held in Barcelona from the 7 – 9 April 2008, which was the first major scientific event of…
The published research has helped to advance medical understanding of how the body defends against disease and heals itself.The study also reveals that the…
This is one of the messages to be conveyed by Prof. Anke van Hal of TU Delft in her inaugural address on Wednesday 7 May. “I see it as a personal challenge to…
Stem cells are extremely versatile: They can develop in 220 different ways, transforming themselves into a correspondingly diverse range of specialized body…
Medicines sometimes have to be administered in extremely small quantities. Just a few tenths of a milliliter may be sufficient to give the patient the ideal…
Modern cars are full of sensors. The optimum quantity of air in the intake tract of a combustion engine is regulated by thermoelectric flow sensors, for…
Now researchers in the University of Warwick’s Department of Chemistry have found a way of producing carbon nanotubes in which they instantly form a highly…
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