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Life & Chemistry

Marine Scientists Track Humpback Whales’ 5,100-Mile Journey

Marine scientists recently published a research paper in the science journal, biology letters, that found humpback whales migrate over 5,100 miles from Central…

Studies and Analyses

Eating With Our Eyes: The Impact of Clean Tables on Appetite

The difference between the two groups — those eating at a table where leftover bones accumulated compared with those whose leftovers were removed — was…

Materials Sciences

Nanotextured Implant Materials: Seamless Body Integration

Biomedical engineers are constantly coming up with ways to repair the human body, replacing defective and worn out parts with plastic, titanium, and ceramic…

Environmental Conservation

Long-Term Effects of Logging After Wildfire Revealed

A new study on the effects of timber harvest following wildfire shows that the potential for a recently burned forest to reburn can be high with or without…

Physics & Astronomy

VELO Delivers Final Modules to CERN: Antimatter Insights

The final modules of the VErtex LOcator (VELO), a precision silicon detector, have been delivered to CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva….

Physics & Astronomy

A new study of living cells could revolutionise the way we test drugs

To stay alive, individual biological cells must transfer electrically charged particles, called ions across their cell membranes. This flow produces an…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Venus: A Year of Insights from Ongoing Missions

Intensively visited by several Russian and American probes from the 60s to the early 90s, Venus has always represented a puzzling target for scientists…

Business and Finance

New Research Reveals Competition’s Impact on UK Electricity Prices

The new research is in a paper entitled “Pricing behaviour under competition in the UK electricity supply industry” to be delivered at the Royal Economic…

Physics & Astronomy

Low-Cost Submicron Fabrication for Human Spare Parts

The new process is based on the use of visible light, ultra short pulse laser. When focused inside photopolymerizable material the radiation causes a reaction,…

Studies and Analyses

Transforming Workplace Communication: The Evolution of Email

Email in the workplace: it is not very many years since email first appeared and became a major method of communication in our working lives.We are now so…

Studies and Analyses

New Study Links Prostate Cancer Rates to Key Factors

Research conducted by the group of Marikki Laiho, M.D., Ph.D., a Professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland, in collaboration with Donna Peehl, Ph.D., an…

Studies and Analyses

Spanish Doctors: Exploring Drinking and Driving Trends

“The role of these health professionals in educating the population regarding the health consequences of drinking and of drinking and driving has been long…

Environmental Conservation

Invasive Nepalese Browntop Grass Threatens Forest Regeneration

M. vimineum, commonly called Nepalese browntop or Japangrass, was first identified in 1919 near Knoxville, Tennessee, where it was inadvertently introduced in…

Life & Chemistry

UCSD Researchers Uncover New Variants of Tumor Suppressor

Building on their 2005 discovery of an enzyme that is a natural tumor suppressor, researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Discover Protein Driving Breast Cancer Spread

Kimmel Cancer Center director Richard Pestell, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chair of cancer biology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Earliest Evidence of Maize Farming Found in Mexico

Professor Mary Pohl conducted an analysis of sediments in the Gulf Coast of Tabasco, Mexico, and concluded that people were planting crops in the “New World”…

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