The cryosphere is both influenced by and has a major influence on climate. Because any increase in the melt rate of ice sheets and glaciers has the potential…
Much panic today about childhood in urban areas is based on a very partial picture, argue the authors, Dr Susie Weller and Professor Irene Brugel, of the…
Alcohol is responsible for up to 25% of all hospital admissions and up to 70% of attendances at A&E. Nearly six million adults in the UK engage in binge…
The research group, currently consisting of Svante Björck, Karl Ljung and Dan Hammarlund, has retrieved cores of lake sediments and peat along a north-south…
In this new filter, which has been developed in a German university, the nanoparticles are evenly deposited. This is possible by using a finer basic material,…
According to this innovation SiO2-enriched additives are given to the binder containing compound. The carbon is then being oxidised inside of the sample, no…
In this process the clearance between the layers is being stabilised by a net of fine bridges, the pores of foamed ceramics. The layers can now be very thin…
Kourou Space Center, French Guyana. A Soyuz rocket awaits take-off. The men and women at the mission control center in Kourou are all hard at work; the air is…
Degussa yesterday in Frankfurt signed a letter of intent with the Russian space-sector organizations TsSKB Progress (manufacturer of the Soyuz rocket) and…
The findings were reported in this week’s edition of Science.The study is important, experts say, because it documents the Earth’s response to the release of…
A major study has shed new light on the dim layer of the ocean called the “twilight zone”—where mysterious processes affect the ocean's ability to absorb and…
The Western scrub-jay is native to the western United States, and, like squirrels and other food-caching animals, these birds readily store food for the future…
Because of its high dielectric properties, barium titanate has long been of interest for use in capacitors, but until recently materials scientists had been…
A new study of nearly 600 people with hay fever symptoms, including sneezing, watery eyes and runny and itchy noses, found that workers missed an hour of work…
The remarkable new core was extracted during the recent Antarctic summer from record-setting drilling depths 4,214 feet below the sea floor beneath…
In the May 1 issue of Genes & Development, UVa researchers Drs. Yong Sun Lee and Anindya Dutta have shown that microRNAs can suppress the overexpression of a…
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