The findings appear in the January 9th issue of the journal Current Biology, published by Cell Press, and are reported by Ransom Myers of Dalhousie University…
Physicists at Boston College have beamed visible light through a cable hundreds of times smaller than a human hair, an achievement they anticipate will lead to…
Energy for everybody? The ever increasing world energy demand cannot be satisfied much longer with fossil fuels; alternatives are required to limit the chance…
The disease, which affects more than five million people in the UK, is caused by the wear and tear of the smooth, hard cartilage tissue that covers the ends of…
Proteins determine the shape and structure of cells and drive nearly all of a cell’s vital processes. All proteins carry out their functions according to the…
A member of several British Olympic groups and sport lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, Sheila Wigmore claims 'the demise of home economics, combined…
Dr Fiona Brooks and Josefine Magnusson at the University of Hertfordshire’s Centre for Research in Primary & Community Care (CRIPACC) explored the experiences…
An ancient Chinese proverb says: “Better to be deprived of food for three days, than tea for one”. A cup of green tea contains up to 200 mg of catechins, whose…
The research provides the first evidence for what scientists describe as the ‘cognitive buffer’ hypothesis – the idea that having a large brain enables animals…
Addressing this threat, world governments agreed through the UN Convention on Biological Diversity to reduce significantly the current rate of biodiversity…
The Centre for Atmospheric and Instrumentation Research (CAIR) which is based at the University’s College Lane campus was formed by bringing together three…
With the challenges to agriculture posed by climate change and an increasing need to grow and farm in sustainable ways the Biotechnology and Biological…
The research team, led by Dr David Simpson, will use a genetic approach to study resistance to strawberry wilt disease, a serious disease, caused by a fungal…
The new W-mass value leads to an estimate for the mass of the yet-undiscovered Higgs boson that is lighter than previously predicted, in principle making…
The importance of the discovery is that it reveals how a species has developed different responses to different climates in a short period of time.Researchers…
This finding could show why obese people are at increased risk of colon cancer. It could also point to new modes of treating this type of cancer, finds…
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