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Life & Chemistry

Key Step in Bird Flu Virus Spread Uncovered by Researchers

Now, in a new study a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison report the identification of a key step the virus must take to facilitate…

Life & Chemistry

Discover New Marine Microbes at Oregon’s Hydrothermal Vents

Thousands of new kinds of marine microbes have been discovered at two deep-sea hydrothermal vents off the Oregon coast by scientists at the MBL (Marine…

Life & Chemistry

New Plant Immune Response Trigger Discovered at BTI

Now, researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (BTI) on the Cornell campus have identified the elusive signal in the process: methyl…

Studies and Analyses

Salmonid hatcheries cause 'stunning' loss of reproduction

The research, to be published Friday in the journal Science, demonstrates for the first time that the reproductive success of steelhead trout, an important…

Health & Medicine

Enhancing Malaria R&D Through Stakeholder Collaboration

However, this unprecedented level of malaria R&D activity is not necessarily all good news. The report’s authors found that the high number of malaria vaccine…

Physics & Astronomy

New Sky Mapping Reveals 10 Billion Years of Galactic Evolution

PITTSBURGH-Color images documenting the past 10 billion years of galactic evolution were distributed online this week as part of the first public release of…

Earth Sciences

Tel Aviv Experts Use History to Tackle Earthquake Challenges

Damage in Jerusalem’s Old City following a July 11, 1927, earthquake. One of the first earthquakes on the Dead Sea Fault to be recorded by modern seismographic…

Studies and Analyses

New York City's infant mortality rate declined in 2006

New York City’s infant mortality rate – widely regarded as a barometer of a population’s general health – fell slightly in 2006, the Health Department reported…

Physics & Astronomy

UC San Diego Physicists Explore Knot Formation in New Study

The study, published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, investigated the likelihood of knot formation and the types of…

Social Sciences

Bridging Research: EAGLES Connects Europe and Developing Nations

A group of influential life scientists, about half of whom are from developing countries, have set up European Action on Global Life Sciences (EAGLES). They…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Innovative Sensor Technology Enhances Multiphase Flow Monitoring

In the industry multiphase flows occur, for instance, in chemical reactors, power plants and turbo machinery. At the Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf a new…

Life & Chemistry

Oxygen’s Role in Plant-Based Bioprocess Innovations

Wilhelmson used gene technology to study the role of oxygen in the growth and hyoscyamine production of Egyptian henbane hairy root cultivations and in the…

Studies and Analyses

Radiotherapy Decline: Shift to Chemotherapy in Cancer Treatment

The study, carried out by Doctor Patricia Cabrera Roldán, and directed by Professor José Expósito Hernández, revealed that the application of radiotherapy…

Physics & Astronomy

Catch a Star 2008: Join the International Astronomy Contest

ESO and the European Association for Astronomy Education have just launched the 2008 edition of 'Catch a Star', their international astronomy competition for…

Transportation and Logistics

ALMA Antenna Transporter Unveiled at Naming Ceremony

Today, the first of the two ALMA antenna transporters was given its name at a ceremony on the compounds of the manufacturer, the heavy-vehicle specialist…

Earth Sciences

Unlocking Antarctica’s secrets

Glaciologist Dr John Woodward, together with experts from the British Antarctic Survey and Edinburgh University, will spend five months working in sub zero…

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