“If Europe really wants to become the world's leading knowledge economy by 2010, the patent network urgently needs to be developed,” Prof Pompidou told more…
Since 1987, CIRAD has been working with the Nigerian administration (in the form of several successive partnerships*), on development-oriented research…
The CASCA project was set up in this context. It’s aim was to reduce the vulnerability of farmers to price fluctuations. The project was run by CIRAD and four…
And it seems that money can even buy you love. Although 15 per cent of winners classed themselves as single in their previous lives, this dropped to 12 per…
The simulation was created as part of research with NASA to develop “a robust, scalable transportation system concept” that would be more resilient and better…
The findings, reported in the October 6 issue of the journal Cell, may have implications for human studies seeking to understand innate differences in people's…
Chapin, a professor at the Institute of Arctic Biology and member of the National Academy of Sciences, is the lead author in an interdisciplinary team of…
The anti-viral molecule, called TBK-1, was found to be essential for cancer cells to live, so blocking it might point to a treatment for fighting cancer, the…
Scientists have identified a misfolded, or incorrectly formed, protein common to two devastating neurological diseases, frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and…
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera detailed the entire 800-meter (roughly half-mile) Victoria crater and the rover — down to its…
Researchers from the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (MIND) have identified a possible mechanism underlying how the gene mutation that…
The study lends further confirmation to what scientists have long suspected — that quasars are made up of super-massive black holes and the super-heated disks…
A team of scientists has completed a study that explains why the tropics are so much richer in biodiversity than higher latitudes. And they say that their work…
The discovery has important implications both in the laboratory, where the scientists hope to better predict the life span of various composite materials, and…
A research team led by University of Michigan evolutionary biologist Yin-Long Qiu has new findings that help resolve long-debated questions about the origin…
Poring over three decades of agricultural records, Christopher Kucharik, an associate scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discovered that farmers…
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