An innovative new NASA-funded study based on a combination of satellite data, computer models and weather balloon readings finds that smoke from Alaskan and…
The study, by climate scientists Xuebin Zhang and Francis Zwiers of Environment Canada, and Peter Stott of the UK Meteorological Office, is published in the…
Liquid crystals are a key component of the displays used in most laptop computers and the increasingly-popular flat panel televisions. Controlled by a network…
Eurex, the world's largest derivatives exchange, and Markit Group Limited (“Markit”), the leading industry source of independent data, portfolio valuations and…
A team led by Associate Professor Jun-Ping Liu, from the Department of Immunology, has identified two proteins that are involved in stopping the gene from…
With several genes already implicated in causing cleft lip and palate, the authors note their addition to the list comes with a unique biological twist. The…
Deciphering patterns in nature is a specialty of UA researchers Martin B. Short, James C. Baygents and Raymond E. Goldstein. In 2005, the team figured out that…
“The area of seabed covered by the colonies has doubled at 75 percent of the sites we observed in both 2005 and 2006,” said Dr. Page Valentine of the U.S….
Larock, a University Professor of chemistry at Iowa State University, found the thin, square piece he was looking for and smacked it against his hand. This one…
Behmer, an entomologist with the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, and several other researchers conducted a series of experiments to find out whether…
A group of scientists affiliated with the SuperNova Legacy Survey (SNLS) have found startling evidence that there is more than one kind of Type Ia supernova, a…
Their studies link the evolution of the adaptive immune system in mammals, where B cells produce antibodies to fight infection, to the more primitive innate…
University of Florida researchers have discovered the appetite-controlling hormone leptin could also combat type 2 diabetes, a disease that has become a…
Two recent expeditions led by Conservation International (CI) to the heart of Asia's “Coral Triangle” discovered dozens of new species of marine life including…
These visual maps consist of millions of nerve cell contacts that need to be wired correctly during development in order for the adult animal to see normally….
Enzymes are complex proteins capable of catalyzing specific biochemical reactions in cells. While it has long been recognized that dynamic fluctuations in…
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