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Environmental Conservation

Peru’s Innovative Approach to Rainforest Protection

The scientists found that the government’s program of designating specific regions for legal logging, combined with protection of other forests, and the…

Earth Sciences

Lessons from the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event

Payne, a paleobiologist who joined the Stanford faculty in 2005, studies the Permian-Triassic extinction and the following 4 million years of instability in…

Life & Chemistry

Penn Researchers Discover Novel Pathway for Increasing “Good” Cholesterol

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered that a group of liver enzymes called proprotein convertases (PCs) may be the…

Environmental Conservation

Satellite Tracking Uncovers Risks to Borneo Pygmy Elephants

Borneo pygmy elephants depend for their survival on forests situated on flat, low lands and in river valleys, the study found. Unfortunately, it is also the…

Physics & Astronomy

Researchers rely on Newton's interference for new experiment

But for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory physicist Henry Chapman and his colleagues, Newton's “dusty mirror” experiment served as a launching pad for…

Studies and Analyses

Where's the beef? Not enough of it is on elders' plates, muscle-metabolism

A new study published today suggests that a diet containing a moderate amount of protein-rich food such as beef, fish, pork, chicken, dairy or nuts may help…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Conventional plowing is 'skinning our agricultural fields'

In fact, long-established practices appear to increase soil erosion to the point that it is not offset by soil creation, said David Montgomery, a University of…

Environmental Conservation

New Metal Alloy Enhances High-Temperature Heat Treatment for Jet Engines

Aircraft engines are more efficient at higher temperatures, but this requires thermal treatment of engine components at very specific high temperatures in…

Health & Medicine

Coxibs and NSAIDs: New Insights for Osteoarthritis Treatment

The Editorial summarizes the outcomes of an international workshop organized by the Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) and the International…

Life & Chemistry

Aluminium Levels in Sunscreens: What Recent Research Reveals

The researchers, Scott Nicholson, BSc, and Dr Christopher Exley, PhD, Birchall Centre for Inorganic Chemistry and Materials Science at Keele, measured the…

Earth Sciences

Unveiling Mars’ Magnetic Secrets Beneath the Crust

Scientists think that the secret lies beneath the crust, in the slippery asthenosphere. In order for the mantle to convect and the plates to slide they require…

Health & Medicine

UK Firm Launches Phase 1 Acne Treatment Trial with 18 Volunteers

A UK company is about to start a Phase 1 trial with the drug involving 18 healthy human volunteers and the results are expected to be announced later this…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Earlier Harvests: How Rising Temperatures Impact Agriculture

The scientists, from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and the Technical University of Munich, examined phenology records of 78 agricultural and…

Life & Chemistry

Advancing Imaging: From Microscopy to Nanoscopy Innovations

Layer-by-layer light microscopic nanoscale images of cells and without having to prepare thin sections? A team led by Stefan Hell and Mariano Bossi at the Max…

Earth Sciences

Swift Detection: GITEWS Tracks M 7.6 Java Quake in Under 5 Minutes

Yesterday's M 7.6 West Java earthquake was detected, located and sized after only 4 minutes and 38 seconds by the German Tsunami Early Warning System (GITEWS)…

Information Technology

Galileo Enhances Global Search and Rescue Efforts

In connection with this, representatives of the Galileo project attended the recent 21st annual Joint Committee Meeting of COSPAS-SARSAT, the international…

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