The award recognises both the speed with which the mission was put together and the unprecedented study it is making of Earth’s nearest planetary neighbour….
COROT is expected to greatly enlarge the number of known exoplanets during its two-year mission and provide the first detection of rocky planets, perhaps just…
Scientists Martijn van Raaij, Ine Segers-Nolten and Vinod Subramaniam of the University of Twente show these clear differences in their publication in…
An MIT researcher’s mathematical model explains for the first time the distinctive structure of collagen, a material key to healthy human bone, muscles and…
This fall, Maher presented the results of two years of research into gunshots at the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Signal Processing…
A University of Utah physicist took a step toward developing a superfast computer based on the weird reality of quantum physics by showing it is feasible to…
The scientists recently discovered a piece of the Appalachian Mountains in southern Mexico, a location geologists long had assumed was part of the North…
Researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cardiovascular Research Center have discovered what appears to be a master cardiac stem cell, capable…
Recreating growth conditions in flea carriers and mammal hosts, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientists have uncovered 176 proteins and likely…
Estrogen and the estrogen receptor (ER)”Estrogen works by locking into the ER, causing a change to the shape of the receptor,” explains Dr Meegan. “This…
Constructing this gigantic scientific machine is a technological and logistical challenge for CERN and its industrial partners. The LHC accelerator was…
“A 135-degree body-thigh sitting posture was demonstrated to be the best biomechanical sitting position, as opposed to a 90-degree posture, which most people…
The largest-scale search for genes that underlie sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the most common form of the disease, has crossed its first…
Now, Kornberg and his colleagues report in the December 1, 2006 issue of the journal Cell, published by Cell Press, new structures that reveal another critical…
South Korean researchers have designed and built an inexpensive optical lens that collects light from a large area and produces a virtually distortion-free…
The magnetic field generated inside the Earth protects the planet from the electrically charged particles given out by the Sun. However, it is only a partially…
How does an organism know when it must produce a protein and in what amount? Clever control mechanisms are responsible for the regulation of protein…
Salmonella food poisoning costs the UK economy around £1 billion every year and severe cases can become life threatening for the young and the elderly. The…
This three year study, with a budget of 57 million euro, will prepare the way for construction of the world’s largest optical/infrared telescope that will…
Researchers hope to make amylase the first of a panel of biomarkers that will aid diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders and may one day help assess the…
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