The research, published in the July edition of the journal Geology, reveals that the dark coating known as desert varnish creates a record of life around it,…
The technique, called metabolic stress disinfection (MSDD), was developed by Manuel Lagunas-Solar and his team at University of California, Davis (Journal of…
Scientists from NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., have developed a…
Gene amplification is the increase in copy number of a particular piece of DNA and is a hallmark of tumor cells. Amplified genomic segments are frequently…
The body's 24-hour clock controls a multitude of internal functions such as periods of sleep and wakefulness, body temperature, and metabolism. Although…
Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered a new and deadly player in the most common form of kidney cancer. They've shown that the molecule B7-H4 helps renal…
What the researchers, scientists at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, a member of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, found is surprising for its…
For the first time, scientists have documented the importance of oil and gas platforms as critical nursery habitat for some species of rockfishes on the…
Their work, reported June 29 in Science Express, the advance electronic publication of Science, implies a protective dimension for the biological clock in…
People surveyed about their own happiness and that of others with varying incomes tended to overstate the impact of income on well-being, according to a new…
In the June 30 issue of the journal Cell, the research team found that a natural “brake” exists in a cell to prevent it from undergoing apoptosis, or…
But the oil price hike has also fueled a race to find new sources for chemical intermediates – compounds that are the raw material for many modern plastics,…
The new findings are based on on-going open-air research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and results gleaned from five other…
Three years after the preliminary results first were presented at a scientific meeting and drew wide attention, University of Utah psychologists have published…
A team led by Dr. Geoffrey Blewitt of the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology and Seismological Laboratory, University of Nevada, Reno, demonstrated that a…
The ASX-listed company commercialises a novel anti-bacterial technology identified by UNSW researchers at the Centre for Marine Biofouling and Bioinnovation.The trial beginning on June 29 will compare the safety performance of an antibacterial contact lens to that of a standard contact lens. …
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