The center's extensive imaging capabilities were critical to this evolutionary language finding.Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center,…
Black carbon, a form of particulate air pollution most often produced from biomass burning, cooking with solid fuels and diesel exhaust, has a warming effect…
For the first time, researchers showed that therapeutic cloning or SCNT has been successfully used to treat disease in the same subjects from whom the initial…
As growing demand for clean water stretches even the resources of the world's largest industrialized nations, scientists and engineers are turning to new…
Despite the distinctive contributions these genes likely make to our species, little is known about the roles they play. Now scientists at Washington…
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Gemini Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton Observatory, two teams of international researchers, including…
HCV is a significant human pathogen, infecting more than three percent of the world’s population. The incidence of infection in the United States has been…
Researchers at the U. S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Microsoft Station Q have made significant…
By injecting a customized “genetic patch” into early stage fish embryos, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis were able to…
The researchers verified that resistance in soybeans to one nematode parasite doesn't predict how well the plant will fight off another nematode species, said…
So states a team of researchers from seven universities in a paper published in this week's issue of the journal Science: “Nanominerals, Mineral Nanoparticles,…
In a study of New Zealand’s “living dinosaur” the tuatara, evolutionary biologist, and ancient DNA expert, Professor David Lambert and his team from the Allan…
A team of scientists from the University of Washington, Seattle, and the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, has succeeded in creating a new type of enzyme…
Final results from the University of Utah’s High-Resolution Fly’s Eye cosmic ray observatory show that the most energetic particles in the universe rarely…
SON, WI, March 17, 2008 — To meet the needs of a growing population and to provide it with a higher quality of life, increasing pressures are being placed on…
Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA's XMM-Newton Observatory, and the Gemini Observatory, two teams of researchers studied the supernova…