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Life & Chemistry

New Immune Discovery Offers Hope Against TB Disease

The cause of TB is a slow-growing bacterium known as Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Scientists have known for some time that when host cells are invaded by this…

Information Technology

New Computer System Helps Tourists Navigate with Ease

For this type of tourists, researchers of the University of Granada, in collaboration with other Spanish universities, are developing a computer system to make…

Physics & Astronomy

Cosmic Rays and Clouds: New Experiment Explores Connection

The goal of the experiment is to investigate the possible influence of galactic cosmic rays on Earth's clouds. This represents the first time a high energy…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

A UGR group studies the uses of "alpechín" (seepage from olives pressings) in the drug and food industries

The interest of the research of the group directed by Alberto Ramos Cormenzana is due, to a great extent, to “jamilano”, a substance produced by this…

Health & Medicine

New Initiative Launched to Address Alcohol Issues in the UK

A major new research programme to tackle alcohol problems is launched today at a national conference hosted by St George’s, University of London. A new £3.2…

Physics & Astronomy

One-Atom-Thick Carbon Sheet: A Breakthrough in Computing

A University of Manchester researcher, who led a team that discovered an amazing new type of ultra-thin material, has been given a prestigious prize for his…

Life & Chemistry

Study Reveals Benefits of Female Mating Behavior in Species

Dr David Hodgson and Dr David Hosken from the University of Exeter’s School of Biosciences studied female mating with multiple males, especially species who…

Physics & Astronomy

Decoding Mars’s Cryptic Region

In the 1970s, orbiter missions around Mars revealed that during southern spring, large areas near Mars's south pole became much darker than the rest of the…

Health & Medicine

Folate Supplement May Affect Malaria Treatment in Pregnant Women

However until now it has not been clear whether folate supplementation might interact with certain antimalarial drugs which are commonly used to treat and / or…

Physics & Astronomy

Researchers Capture Unique Molecule Poses in Photos

The rapid tumbling motions of gas phase molecules, such as those in the air around us, means that at any instant in time, the molecules are pointing in many…

Life & Chemistry

‘Drunk’ fruit flies could shed light on genetic basis of human alcohol abuse

The researchers show that, in the fruit fly, the expression of many genes is modified by exposure to alcohol, and that mutations in some of these genes affect…

Life & Chemistry

MIT's anti-microbial 'grammar' may mean new medicines

In most languages, sentences only make sense if the words are placed in the right order. Now, MIT researchers and an IBM colleague have used grammatical…

Health & Medicine

Killing Brain Tumors From Within: a ‘Trojan Horse’ Approach

A new method for targeting malignant brain tumors through inducing the cancerous cells to “commit suicide” has been developed by a team of researchers headed…

Environmental Conservation

Valuable Bacterium Discovered in Vanishing Lake Ecosystem

In three scientific papers currently being written, Brent Peyton, a Montana State University chemical engineering professor, his students, and collaborators…

Health & Medicine

Virtual Colonoscopy: A Game Changer for Colorectal Cancer Prevention

“Our positive experience with virtual colonoscopy screening covered by health insurance demonstrates its enormous potential for increasing compliance for…

Studies and Analyses

Neural Signature of Bilingualism Discovered by Researchers

Dartmouth researchers have found areas in the brain that indicate bilingualism. The finding sheds new light on decades of debate about how the human brain's…

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