Alopecia areata starts with bald patches on the scalp, and sometimes elsewhere on the body. The disease occurs in males and females of all ages, and experts…
The fossils include complete fish (only the second place on earth where whole fish of this age have been found), various shrimp and worm like creatures,…
As late as in the early 1990s, there were distinct differences in how a film or TV programme was translated in Sweden and Denmark. These differences have now…
For her doctoral dissertation, Research Scientist Nina Schulman from MTT Agrifood Research Finland has identified quantitative trait loci (QTL) affecting milk…
Scientists of the Pierre Auger Observatory have demonstrated that these particles do not arrive uniformly distributed across the sky. Instead their arrival…
Biodiesel – motor fuel derived from vegetable oil – is a renewable alternative to rapidly depleting fossil fuels. It is biodegradable and non-toxic, and…
One in every two hundred cancer patients is a child and although diagnosis and treatment have improved considerably in recent years. Adolescents facing cancer…
The fundamental challenges.Infections have always been among the principal causes of death in the human species. In the developed world, microbes may be…
This laser increases sensitivity in Fluorescence Immunoassays by threefold and makes femtomolare detection possible. Designed towards point-of-care…
Dr Tara Sutherland and her group from CSIRO Entomology are looking at silks produced by other insects and the results of their recent work have been published…
In a paper published in leading international science journal Nature today (15/11/07 UK time) the research team revealed a system that uses individual photons…
“Imagine an eight-foot-long scorpion,” said O. Erik Tetlie, postdoctoral associate in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Yale, and an author of the…
The key is connecting wind farms throughout a given geographic area with transmission lines, thus combining the electric outputs of the farms into one powerful…
When you meet your boss's husband, Harvey, at the office holiday party, then bump into him an hour later over the onion dip, will you remember his name? Yes,…
Early on the morning of Nov. 16, Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh and showed no mercy. The death toll continues to rise even today. Hundreds of thousands of people…
The distance? A minuscule 1.803 Ångstroms, which is on the order of a billionth of the thickness of a human hair.The chemists weren't driven by the Guinness…
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