But new research at the Weizmann Institute of Science shows that odors can be rated on a scale of pleasantness, and this turns out to be an organizing…
Searching for extra-solar planets – which are planets outside of our solar system – is very popular these days. About 700 planets are known at the moment, a…
This makes it all the more important for rescue teams to get a quick overview of the situation at hand. In SENEKA, a Markets Beyond Tomorrow project,…
The principal goal of LAGUNA (Large Apparatus for Grand Unification and Neutrino Astrophysics) is to assess the feasibility of a new pan-European research…
Hiroshi MasuyaUnit LeaderTechnology and Development Unit for Knowledge Base of Mouse PhenotypeRIKEN BioResource CenterResearchers at the RIKEN BioResource…
While typical lasers operate at only a single or handful of frequencies, laser frequency combs operate simultaneously at many frequencies, approaching a…
“Solar radiation that falls on a certain point in the city varies depending on the time of day, the weather conditions, the pollution level and other…
Framing MS as a metabolic disorder helps to explain many puzzling aspects of the disease, particularly why it strikes women more than men and why cases are on…
In a random sky survey made in near-infrared light, Hubble found five tiny galaxies clustered together 13.1 billion light-years away. They are among the…
There is on average at least one planet orbiting every star in the Milky Way. This remarkable conclusion comes from an international team of astronomers,…
According to University of Delaware assistant professor Ioannis Poulakakis, a large fraction of the Earth’s surface remains inaccessible to conventional…
Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association cooperating in a joint study with biologists and…
The reason that internal tumours are not treated with the method is that the technology does not exist to check that the precise amount of light is…
The Hercules galaxy cluster (also known as Abell 2151) lies about 500 million light-years away in the constellation of Hercules. It is unlike other nearby…
Cancer is usually attributed to faulty genes, but growing evidence from the field of cancer epigenetics indicates a key role for the gene “silencing” proteins…
By following the brain activity of mice as they navigated a virtual reality maze, the researchers found that populations of neurons fire in distinctive…
At this scale, new phenomena could arise. However, the Planck-scale is so remote from current experimental capabilities that tests of quantum gravity are…
A paper by neuroscientists at the University at Buffalo and Buffalo State College suggests that ingestion of components of afterbirth or placenta –…
However, research published today in Nature shows that this is not the case. The study shows that iron-rich cells in the pigeon beak are in fact specialised…
The immune cells, called dendritic cells, are harnessed by cancer vaccines and other therapeutics used to amplify the immune system. The finding, published…
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