The study, which will appear in the April issue of Nature Neuroscience, is the first to provide concrete evidence that playing a musical instrument…
But now, armed with a custom-built machine known as the Ultrachron, University of Massachusetts Amherst scientists are refining a technique that allows them to…
Until recently, most research focused on why people leave jobs rather than why they choose to stay. In a review of the past 15 years of research on employee…
In two species of whip spiders, or amblypygids, mothers caress their young with long feelers and siblings stick together in social groups until they reach…
By mapping the interlocking structures of small molecules and mutated protein “receptors” in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cells, scientists at…
The new black hole panorama was made with data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Spitzer Space Telescope and ground-based optical telescopes. The…
It is known that women with PCOS have a 3-fold increase in their risk of developing type-2 diabetes, where the body does not produce enough insulin or cannot…
The arrival of genetically modified crops has added another level of complexity to farming in the developing world, says a sociocultural anthropologist at…
Scientists have known for years that the energy cost of walking and running is related primarily to the work done by muscles to lift and move the limbs. But…
Tsunamis generally result from shallow-thrust earthquakes, which occur when the seafloor is pushed downward beneath the land in places like Japan, Chile,…
The European Student Moon Orbiter Satellite (ESMO) project is part of ESA’s Student Space Exploration and Technology Initiative which runs a series of…
For the first time, scientists using the BaBar experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) have observed the transition of one type of…
The study which the University has announced during Obesity Awareness Week, and will be conducted over a three-year period, will survey GPs and practice nurses…
Despite recent calls for traditional medicine to be subjected to the same stringent regulations and ethical guidelines as orthodox medicine, traditional…
Images made with ESO's New Technology Telescope at La Silla by a team of German astronomers reveal a rich circular cluster of stars in the inner parts of our…
Professor Julia Slingo, Acting Director of the Walker Institute at the University of Reading and Climate Director of the National Centre for Atmospheric…
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