The experiments in which Ansari will participate are in the area of human physiology: from the search of the effects of space radiation on the crew, to the…
To this extent, the properties of the plant “Atlas cedar” have been studied as a resource for the creation of chemical products applicable to other areas such…
Solar System Update brings together the work of 19 physicists, astronomers, and climatologists from Europe and the USA in 12 chapters on the sun, the main…
A collaborative study by researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the University Hospital of Maastricht, The Netherlands, has identified a new…
The study, to be published by the journal Nature in its Sept. 21 issue, involved giving tans to specially engineered mice, not by exposing them to ultraviolet…
While some of these UAVs can be easily carried in a backpack and launched by hand, they typically require a team of trained operators on the ground, and they…
Scientists of the CDF collaboration at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced today (September 25, 2006) that they have met…
In a paper published this week in Angewandte Chemie, Professor Steve Homans from Leeds’ Faculty of Biological Sciences explains his method for getting exactly…
This has been a vexed question for more than 30 years. Most psychologists tended to support the retrieval-deficit explanation, while neuroscientists interested…
They are to pursue outstanding basic research and have an expressed ambition to develop their collaboration with the business community and the public sector…
Researchers from the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (MIND) have identified a possible mechanism underlying how the gene mutation that…
The findings, reported in the October 6 issue of the journal Cell, may have implications for human studies seeking to understand innate differences in people’s…
Leading UK astronomers based at Durham University, Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Edinburgh have now joined a select group of US and German…
More than 200 years ago, the philosopher Emmanuel Kant first proposed that planets are born from disks of dust and gas that swirl around their home stars….
A demanding youngster means that parents are more likely to stay together to help rear their young, yet those with more hardy offspring are likely to battle it…
They are being developed and tested by specialists of two Moscow academic institutes – Institute of Thermal Physics of Extreme Conditions (United Institute of…
Although a number of new antibiotics have been discovered in recent decades, our armory against infection is continually being depleted, as our microscopically…
Guided by families with an unusual number of cases, scientists at Johns Hopkins have discovered the genetic origins of at least one form of Fuchs corneal…
The roll out to the launch pad and erection of the Soyuz rocket at the launch tower took place on Saturday 14 October. Carried by train, the launcher left the…
Many studies have shown the nutritional benefits of eating fish (finfish or shellfish). Fish is high in protein and omega-3 fatty acids. But concerns have been…