“You have all these things that are analogous to Earth. At the same time, it's foreign and unfamiliar,” said Ray Pierrehumbert, the Louis Block Professor in…
Scientists at the University of Missouri-St. Louis used DNA sequences from feather lice to study how island populations of their host, the Galápagos Hawk might…
The phenomenon was caused by a coronal mass ejection, a large cloud of magnetized gas cast into space by the sun. The collision resulted in the complete…
The knowledge could lead to a range of benefits, including better understanding of the cancer-fighting properties of plant pigments and new, natural food…
At the American College of Radiology Imaging Network meeting on September 28, researchers presented results from the National CT Colonography Trial. This…
But a new computer program and method of analysis by University of Michigan researchers makes it easy to see that a series of smaller waves—a situation much…
Previous in vitro studies suggested that leptin receptors, which are found in tissues throughout the body including the pancreas as well as the brain, mediate…
Clean Cities coalitions around the nation displaced the equivalent of 375 million gallons of gasoline in 2006, according to a recent report from the U.S….
Arctic sea ice during the 2007 melt season plummeted to the lowest levels since satellite measurements began in 1979, according to researchers at the…
The carpetlike growth of nanotubes has been shown to outperform conventional “thermal interface materials.” Like those materials, the nanotube layer does not…
The discovery is noteworthy because experimental improvements of this magnitude rarely occur more often than once in a decade.To see the infinitely small bits…
Since then we have launched hundreds of satellites, space probes, telescopes, moon missions, and planetary landers. Now, political scientist Rasmus Karlsson…
Professor Bob Elwood, from the School of Biological Sciences studied crabs’ reaction to declawing. Crabs felt increased stress and had a lower survival rate…
Called Enabling Grids for E-sciencE, the computing grid connects ordinary PCs to form a super-sized supercomputer that is being used during this challenge to…
Diarrhoea and otitis media during the first year of life are especially noteworthy. No increased risks were found for atopic diseases during the first six…
Published in the journal Human Molecular Genetics, the findings could provide a basis for developing methods for halting the progression of some forms of the…
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