A recent Oak Ridge National Laboratory study, featured in the current issue of the ORNL Review examined how an expected increase in ownership of hybrid…
Collaborators from the Woods Hole Research Center, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Duke University, Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia, Harvard…
They can be found in plants, animals and even in humans – inactive remains of jumping genes, transposons. Researchers are striving to develop active…
“With all the advancements over the last 20 years, we can now get a better picture of Earth by looking at it from micro- to macro-perspectives, such as…
A new study by an international team of researchers from Cardiff University and University of Maryland has revealed how the humble cup of tea could well be an…
“Nitrogen removal in streams is important because it reduces the potential for eutrophication – the excessive growth of algae and aquatic plants in downstream…
MBL, WOODS HOLE, MA—Increasing nitrogen runoff from urban and agriculture land-use is interfering with our streams’ and rivers’ natural processes for reducing…
With innovative measurement techniques and new ways to position the molecules, NIST researchers reported at the March Meeting of the American Physical Society…
NIST scientists Pradeep Namboodiri and Doo-In Kim and colleagues first demonstrated* the latest incongruity between the macro and micro worlds this past fall…
While nearly all organisms experience aging, the underlying mechanisms have eluded geneticists and evolutionary biologists. Many different theories have been…
5-6 JUNE 2008Holiday Inn, Kuching, Sarawak.The 2008 Malaysian Finance Association Conference is jointly organized by the Malaysian Finance Association and the…
Martin AnyiFaculty of EngineeringSupplying electricity to the remote and scattered rural communities in Malaysia is almost impossible due to their remoteness…
Osteochondrosis affects both people and a range of domestic animals including horses, cows, pigs and dogs. The disease is especially common among Norwegian…
In a new study on mice, which is presented in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics, the research group has shown that the accumulation of the plaque that…
West Yorkshire-based Briton Engineering Developments Ltd, who produce the ‘Snowflex’ artificial ski slope system, have been working with the University of…
Professor Nichol is the only cosmologist and one of just two British scientists to receive the award, which has a prize of 50,000 euros. He said: “This is a…