Their refinements to our understanding of how cement and concrete actually work, reported this week in Nature Materials,* ultimately may make possible…
Because most proteins are very large, complex molecules made up of hundreds or thousands of amino acids, they usually must be cut up into more manageable…
The findings, which were discovered by researchers in Professor Claude Desplan’s and Steve Small’s laboratories in NYU’s Center for Developmental Genetics,…
Sandia National Laboratories researchers Mark Ivey and Bernie Zak are members of a research team from around the world whose work on the cold tundra in…
The research is a collaboration between molecular biologists and physicists. ”The molecular biologists have knowledge of how the cell functions and of the…
Thousands of people with liver and kidney disease die every year from too much ammonia in their blood, and scientists from the United States and Japan have…
Significant correlations were found between the amount of copper and lead found in washed wool from sheep and in local streams. Median copper concentration in…
Dr Jean-Hervé Lignot (Louis Pasteur University) and Dr Robert K. Pope (Indiana University South Bend) will talk about the implications this has on the way…
In a paper to be published in the April 2007 issue of the journal Icarus, a team of University of California, Berkeley, and Paris Observatory astronomers…
The chips inside an electronic device give off heat as a byproduct of power consumption when the object is on or being used. To reduce high temperatures, heat…
A team of Canadian and American ecologists, led by world-renowned fisheries biologist Ransom Myers of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has found…
They discovered that 12 of the 8,100 people studied developed major complications after receiving epidural pain relief following an operation. Six developed…
The Conference had the theme “Planetarium through ages: Vision 2027”. It was attended by directors and professionals of all the major planetariums in the…
The aim is to avoid scaring off fish and thus biasing results from stock abundance surveys. However, comparative studies carried out by IMR show that the…
New Horizons made its closest approach to Jupiter on 28 February 2007. Its principal objective was to use the gravity of the giant planet to slingshot it…
On the evening of 25 March 2007, the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator (MAD) achieved First Light at the Visitor Focus of Melipal, the third Unit…