Imagine you are a rice breeder and one day within a large field you discover a plant that has just the characteristics you have been looking for. You happily…
The US saw nearly 20,000 cases of Lyme disease in 2006 and there are up to 2,000 cases a year in the UK, a figure that is increasing steadily. Now scientists…
“Really, we cannot talk about the European driver,” explains Matthias Schulze, coordinator of the PReVENT project and Senior Manager for ITS & Services Daimler…
The project, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, will involve growing two different species of cyanobacteria – photosynthetic algae that are…
Under the right circumstances methane can play a key role in prebiotic chemistry – the chemical reactions considered necessary to form life as we know it….
Researchers have found an association between a vitamin found in leafy green vegetables, fruit and pulses [1] and levels of chromosomal abnormalities in men’s…
As well as highlighting areas where research effort should be focused, the exercise shows how “horizon scanning” could help us foresee issues that have taken…
These new additives, which are ideal for use with polyolefins and other polymers, ensure permanent, anti-static dissipation and provide superb aesthetics,…
By their very nature networks are highly interdependent and each machine’s overall susceptibility to attack depends on the vulnerabilities of the other…
A team of six scientists, including Jon M. Erlandson of the University of Oregon, pronounced their verdict in the Proceedings of the National Academy of…
A paper describing their findings appears this month in Angewandte Chemie.The TAT protein transduction domain of the HIV virus has some remarkable properties….
According to researchers at the Monell Center, fruit flies are more like humans in their responses to many sweet tastes than are almost any other species. The…
Details of how the ancient trading system worked more than 1,000 years ago were reconstructed largely through the efforts of former MIT undergraduate student…
Besides displaying the most spectacular volcanic activity in the solar system, Io causes auroras on its mother planet that are similar to the Northern Lights…
Viruses and bacterial viruses (known as phages) are among the most abundant life forms on the planet. Two papers published recently in Nature, March 2 and 12,…
In a recent paper in Physical Review E 77:016104 (2008), Weixiong Zhang, Ph.D., Washington University associate professor of computer science and engineering…
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