The researchers, led by Dr Julie Turner-Cobb at the University of Bath, were studying the effect of children’s temperament and behaviour on how stressful they…
Sister chromatid cohesion (the binding together of the two identical copies of each chromosome that are formed during replication) helps to ensure that…
The research, which examined a population of workers at a chemical plant that produced diacetyl (a key component of butter flavoring), was reported in the…
Other than visually inspecting the disease, doctors have no genetic blueprint to classify melanomas, a lethal form of skin cancer. Tumors generally are ranked…
Worldwide it is estimated that one person in every eight is overweight and more than 300 millions are obese. For a definition of overweight and obesity see…
With a special emphasis on politics, speakers from across the world will discuss how prominent women in, or attempting to gain, power (for example Ségolène…
CUBED GOES GREEN…Climate change looks likely to make the weather more difficult to predict but, with the rising interest in the environmental impact of human…
Author of this work is Olga García Martínez, and her analysis takes as a starting point several clinical processes in which accelerating bone growth is…
Stars do not like to be alone. Indeed, most stars are members of a binary system, in which two stars circle around each other in an apparently never-ending…
”The ice-dammed lakes in Russia were larger than the largest lakes we know today,” Eiliv Larsen, a geologist at the Geological Survey of Norway (NGU), tells…
Heart attacks and strokes as a result of atherosclerosis have been ranked for years among the most common causes of deaths in Europe. Another previously…
The guidelines consider successively general comments on the evaluation of the patients with the management of native valve disease and that of the important…
The research by an international team led by archaeologists at Durham University, which is published today in the academic journal Proceedings of the National…
Wood plastic composite (WPC), which are subject to a strongly rising demand, might be pushed ahead: innovative pre-treated wood reduces water absorption in WPC…
The Chinese media reported that a local businessman in Tongling City in east China’s Anhui Province filmed “a big white animal” with his digital camera on…
A study of forest cover in El Salvador in the September issue of BioScience presents novel findings on how economic globalization, land policy changes, and…