Plants convert sunlight to chemical energy in the form of biomass, while releasing oxygen as an environmentally benign byproduct. Devising a similar process by…

Scientists heard their first pops this week in an experiment that searches for signs of dark matter in the form of tiny bubbles.Scientists will need further…

Studying neuropathic pain in humans has major ethical and experimental limitations. The use of alternate mammalian animal models has been the solution for many…

The Vanderbilt scientists and others analyzed in an animal model a new method developed at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) in La Jolla, Calif., for…

The study, which was published in the journal Neuron, identified more than 750 genes involved in long-term memory, including many that had not been found…

“The idea behind our research is that, if an entire galaxy had been colonized by an advanced spacefaring civilization, the energy produced by that…

Meanwhile scientists identified many more secondary metabolites like Erythromycin, an antibacterial drug. The enormous relevance of these natural products in…

The probability of finding water or other volatiles is highest in the polar regions, as they are frozen within the polar ice. To detect them, the LZH is…

For several years now, the team of the Macromolecular Crystallography Department (MX) at HZB headed by Dr. Manfred Weiss together with the Drug Design Group…

Physicists have spent 20 years trying to more precisely measure the so-called “magnetic moment” of subatomic particles called muons. Findings published this week call into question long-standing assumptions of particle physics. Since the 1970s, the Standard Model of Physics has served as the basis from which particle physics are investigated. Both experimentalists and theoretical physicists have tested the Standard Model’s accuracy, and it has remained the law of the land when it comes to understanding how the subatomic world behaves….

New nuclear magnetic resonance technique is five orders of magnitude more sensitive. An international team of researchers with participation of the PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM) has successfully advanced a laboratory method to search for extremely light axion-like particles (ALPs), which are possible candidates for being the elusive dark matter. The researchers use nuclear magnetic resonance techniques in their experiments: by using a new setup, they have now been…

We are in the process of organizing a series of press conferences to bring some of the most important new discoveries to reporters who cover the meeting. These…

These are a few of the many questions that will be addressed at the 156th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) next month in Miami, FL. Convening…

A new regulation governing the control of invasive alien species became effective in all EU states on 1 January 2015. The European Union hopes that it will…

However, electronic processing also facilitates data abuse. For this reason, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the FZI Research Center for…

This is the conclusion reached by an international team of researchers that calculated the water flows around the Dead Sea. The natural replenishment rate of…

Unlike other chemicals, agricultural pesticides are intentionally applied to the environment to help farmers control insects, weeds and other potentially…

For instance, imagine typing in “Who starred in the film Casablanca?” The search engine would respond with “Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.”Not impressed?Try asking a more nuanced question, such as “What do Americans think of universal health care?” A search engine will create a report indicating trends in opinion based on what has been posted to the Web….

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is employed in a wide range of applications. In chemistry, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy is in standard use for the…

“Common underlying search mechanisms may exist that drive our behavior in many different domains,” said IU cognitive scientist Peter Todd. “If how people…