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Life & Chemistry

QUT Researcher Uncovers Mica in Ancient Maya Mask Shards

Studying tiny shards of paint from the Mayan city of Copan, QUT physical and chemical sciences PhD researcher Rosemary Goodall found evidence of mica that…

Social Sciences

IKEA Innovation: The Key Role of Employee Knowledge Sharing

On Friday business analyst Anna Jonsson at Lund University will submit a dissertation with new findings: A good system for transmitting knowledge among various…

Studies and Analyses

How Immune System Regulators Impact Type 1 Diabetes Risk

The gradual reduction in their regulating capacity seems to play a critical role in the onset of type 1 diabetes, as demonstrated in the latest study by Dr….

Environmental Conservation

Researcher's work on gender, temperature link in reptiles published in Nature

Nature is an international, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal of science, and is the most-cited weekly science journal in the world.Dan Warner, a…

Social Sciences

Healthy Marriages: The Benefits of Constructive Conflict

Couples in which both the husband and wife suppress their anger when one attacks the other die earlier than members of couples where one or both partners…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Global Crop Diversity Enters Arctic Seed Vault For Preservation

The cornucopia of rice, wheat, beans, sorghum, sweet potatoes, lentils, chick peas and a host of other food, forage and agroforestry plants is to be…

Health & Medicine

Meat Consumption and Metabolic Syndrome: What You Need to Know

Otherwise-healthy adults who eat two or more servings of meat a day — the equivalent of two burger patties — increase their risk of developing metabolic…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Late Fall Colors: Surprising Benefits for Forest Ecosystems

Writing in the current issue of the journal Global Change Biology, Michigan Technological University Professor David F. Karnosky and colleagues from two…

Earth Sciences

New Fault Discovered Creating Dalmatian Islands Off Croatia

Geologists had previously believed that the Dalmatian Islands and the Dinaride Mountains had stopped growing 20 to 30 million years ago.From a region northwest…

Materials Sciences

CCNY, Rice University researchers develop low-cost, 'green' way to make antimicrobial paints

Researchers at The City College of New York (CCNY) and Rice University have developed a low-cost, environmentally friendly technique for embedding…

Physics & Astronomy

Debut of TEAM 0.5, the World's Best Microscope

“We have beam down the column,” announced Uli Dahmen of Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division, who is head of NCEM and director of DOE's collaborative…

Health & Medicine

Promising Malaria Vaccine Trial Shows Early Success in Mali

The trial was the first to test this vaccine candidate, which is designed to block the malaria parasite from entering human blood cells, in a malaria-endemic…

Life & Chemistry

Immunologists Discover New Method to Enhance Immune Response

Published in the current edition of Viral Immunology, these findings may point the way toward developing new and more effective vaccines against diseases like…

Life & Chemistry

Food Peptides Activate Bitter Taste Receptors: New Insights

Researchers from the Monell Center and Tokyo University of Agriculture have used a novel molecular method to identify chemical compounds from common foods that…

Health & Medicine

Aspirin Use Linked to Reduced Colorectal Cancer Risk

The use of regular, long-term aspirin and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) reduces the risk associated with colorectal cancer, according to a…

Earth Sciences

Hot Springs Microbes Could Transform Rock Dating Methods

Their discovery could affect how certain sequences of sedimentary rock are dated, and how scientists might search for evidence of life on other planets. “We…

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