Both males and females sing in order to define territory and find a mate, and couples also sing duets to strengthen their pair bonding. New research published…
Electronic components based on graphene could render our current silicon-based electronics obsolete. Graphene, a more recently discovered form of carbon,…
Inflammation is part of the immune system and is responsible for defending humans against infection as well as fascilitating the healing of injuries, and is…
“This is the first successful reprogramming of blood cells obtained from a patient with leukemia,” says University of Wisconsin-Madison stem cell researcher…
The new find, in a limestone fossil bed in northeastern Brazil, corrects the mistaken classification of another fossil of this type and reveals that the genus…
A first-line treatment for relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS) was approved in September 2010 by the US Food and Drug Administration: FTY720…
In our not-so-distant evolutionary past, stress often meant imminent danger, and the risk of blood loss, so part of our body’s stress response is to stock-pile…
A difficult task: The immune system needs to differentiate between the body's own components and foreign agents. It has to fight pathogens and tumor cells,…
Researchers have discovered — in a classic case of scientific serendipity — that the bright light from sports stadiums and urban street lights may boost…
Photosynthesis, the natural process carried out by plants, algae and some bacterial species, converts sunlight energy into chemical energy and sustains much of…
A new, wide-ranging survey that compares the past and present condition of oyster reefs around the globe finds that more than 90 percent of former reefs have…
A detailed analysis of data from 185 human genomes sequenced in the course of the 1000 Genomes Project, by scientists at the European Molecular Biology…
For the last ten years, biodiesel in the form of fatty acid methyl ester has been promoted as a replacement for fossil-fuel-based diesel fuel. It was soon…
The brain—awake and sleeping—is awash in electrical activity, and not just from the individual pings of single neurons communicating with each other. In fact,…
One particular characteristic, the tendency for nanoparticles to clump together in solution, is of great interest because the size of these clusters may be key…
Lead author Yazheng Liu and co-author Prof. David Kitts found that the prevailing antioxidants present in dark roasted coffee brew extracts result from the…
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