Researchers found that the amount of nicotine contained in just one puff of a cigarette can occupy about 30 percent of the brain's most common type of nicotine…
While Europe has a remarkably high reputation in ICT research, fragmentation of effort, limited cooperation between key players, and lack of information…
It is generally known among seafarers that in normal waves you can suddenly stand eye to eye with 25- to 30-meter waves, so-called monster waves. Unlike a…
The planktonic eggs and larvae are small and are best viewed through a microscope and therefore unknown to most people. Many of the species or close relatives…
Writing in the journal Nature, Dr Phil Donoghue and colleagues reveal the various developmental stages of fossilised embryos, from the first splitting of cells…
The CALIBRE project’s aim is to galvanise the European open source software industry, both to strengthen Europe's global position in open source development…
Psychologists at the University of Leicester are to investigate texting language to provide new tools for criminal investigation. The forensic linguistic study…
“This cratered terrain is similar in topography to near-side highlands,” says SMART-1 Project scientist Bernard Foing, “while the far-side equator bulge can…
“Such trends are predicted by models that take into account the diffusion of elements in a star”, said Andreas Korn, lead-author of the paper reporting the…
Stretched to its full length, a single molecule of human DNA extends more than three feet, but, when wound up inside the nucleus of a cell, that same molecule…
“The ORV program in Virginia is part of a larger project that spans 14 other states,” explained Jim Parkhurst, Virginia's wildlife extension specialist based…
Organisms, including humans, all inherit DNA from generation to generation, what biologists call hard inheritance, because the nucleotide sequence of DNA is…
In the midst of the worldwide energy crisis, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have been continuing their work on a microbial fuel cell that…
Mark Thomas, MD, an assistant professor and transplant surgeon at UC, performed the operation in a 2-year-old boy with liver cancer on May 24 at La Raza…
How life takes shape is a mystery. Butterfly or baby, cells organize themselves into tissues, tissues form organs, organs become organisms. Over and over,…
The teeth hold evidence of the type of vegetation that grew in a particular location at a particular time, and that in turn provides information about climate…
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