The investigators report that invasive species of macroalgae spread at 50 Km per decade, a distance far larger than that covered by invasive terrestrial…
The findings of a study funded by the National Environment Research Council and led by Dr Louise Allcock at Queen’s School of Biological Sciences and…
This completely unexpected discovery will deepen our understanding of these lost marine species as well as providing precious data about the coastal…
There may be less than 20,000 rhinoceros in the world, with one species perhaps already extinct and another with possibly only four animals remaining in the…
The University of Nottingham has received £15,000 from the charity Breast Cancer Campaign to fill in one of the research gaps identified by the country’s top…
The research report appears in the journals Veterinary Dermatology and Journal of Heredity. The report details the genetic alteration in this breed which…
Proteins play a decisive role in both the tolerability of contact lenses and the adherence of mussels to the hulls of ships. They develop a biofilm during…
Due to the increasing demands of industrial, municipal and agricultural consumption on dwindling water supplies, botanists are increasingly engaged in efforts…
They turned out to be steelworkers, running their steel mill in the nanoworld – the chemists around Prof. Dr. Roland A. Fischer (faculty of chemistry of RUB)….
Researchers at Cornell University recently made a major breakthrough when they invented a method to test and demonstrate a long-held hypothesis that some very,…
For example, cells have developed complex systems for recycling, reusing and disposing of damaged, nonfunctional waste proteins. When such systems malfunction…
The researchers have found that the unique properties of a new material can be used to create new devices that can be implanted into the human body – including…
Mark Twain, a skeptic of the idea of free will, argues in his essay “What Is Man?” that humans do not command their minds or the opinions they form.”You did…
Research published in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology shows that several species of these skinks have rapidly evolved an elongate, limbless…
Petroleum is the feedstock for many products in the chemical industry. However, this fossil fuel is becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. Renewable raw…
Prof David Parker from Durham University’s Chemistry Department was working with experts from Glasgow University, and a team of international researchers, when…