Scientists have found that flies and moths are most closely related to beetles and more distantly related to bees and wasps, contrary to previous theory. The…
COROT will also delve into the centres of hundreds or even thousands of stars. COROT will lead a bold new search for planets around other stars. In the decade…
STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) comprises two nearly identical observatories that will orbit the Sun to monitor its violent outbursts known as…
The term bicuspid aortal valve means that the valve between the left cardiac ventricle and the aorta has two flaps (cusps) instead of the normal three. This…
Subjects in a group of 115 overweight and obese, sedentary, postmenopausal women were randomly assigned to either a moderate exercise program (45 minutes per…
The recent TROPHY study seems to lead to that conclusion. However, two editorials published in the November issue of the American Journal of Hypertension…
The physiological functions of proteins depend on their folding into a particular spatial structure (tertiary structure): enzymes and their substrates must fit…
MIT researchers are developing a half-sized gasoline engine that performs like its full-sized cousin but offers fuel efficiency approaching that of today's…
Whether you favor meteor impacts, volcanic eruptions, cosmic rays, epidemics, or some other cause for the worst mass extinction events in Earth's history, no…
The once westward roll of what is now the world's largest river was caused by a long-gone highland near what today is the river's mouth. That highland was…
Perhaps as many as 400 million of these stoves, fueled by wood or crop residue, are used daily for cooking and heating by more than 2 billion people worldwide,…
A deceptively simple experiment, recently published in the journal Science, has moved physics one step closer to explaining the odd behavior of supersolid…
“We provide a complete picture of how the ferroelectric transition temperature changes when the electrical and mechanical conditions change within nanoscale…
Human and animal skeletal remains indicate possible royal cemetery, ritual sacrificeAn ancient, untouched Syrian tomb that wowed the archaeological world on…
A popular volcano demonstration in grade school science class rivets students' attention as it spews bubbly liquid over a tabletop, but it comes up short in…
“Some patients require specialized scans that not all of our technologists are familiar with, so we implemented a software program that enables us to run the…
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