This finding sheds light on why Bacillus anthracis does not grow in soil, even though in many ways it resembles a soil-growing bacterium. It has the ability to…
Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI) in Sankt Augustin have developed software that is able to recognize…
The first study, led by an international consortium of clinical scientists and genomics experts, incorporates the two largest collections of MS genetic…
Phoenix’s launch is scheduled for 4 August this year and it is expected to land on the Red Planet in the spring of 2008. The mission will investigate the…
The findings, which appear in the Online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) this week, offer a possible new prototype…
Their results, published in the Physical Review Letters,* point to more efficient methods to predict the dynamics of magnetic materials and to improve the…
The new planet was identified by astronomers looking for transiting planets – that is, planets that pass in front of their home star – using a network of small…
There are many consumer decisions that we have to make over and over again, such as selecting a restaurant to eat at in our neighborhood or deciding which…
A prominent problem in AIDS is a form of dementia that robs one’s ability to concentrate and perform normal movements. Scientists at the Burnham Institute for…
In simulations, now being backed up by laboratory tests in the “Mars Yard”at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, the rover first builds up a…
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia is a type of blood cancer in which specific white blood cells, called B lymphocytes or B cells, build up in the blood, bone marrow…
The object, located in the constellation Ursa Minor, is nicknamed Calvera, after the villain in the movie “The Magnificent Seven.” If confirmed, it would be…
The three organisations recently took this step in response to the Government’s large-scale national initiative on bio-prospecting (the search for valuable,…
All organisms consist of a number of different cell types each producing different proteins. The nerve cells produce proteins necessary for the nerve cell…
Europe’s flagship ground-based astronomical facility, the ESO VLT, has been equipped with a new ‘eye’ to study the Universe. Working in the near-infrared, the…
Results of Se-Jin Lee’s new study, appearing on August 29 in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE, show that while mice that lack the gene that makes…
“The rise of oxygen allowed for the evolution of complex oxygen-breathing life forms,” says Lee R. Kump, professor of geoscience, Penn State. Before 2.5…
Astronomers at the University of Rochester have discovered five Earth-oceans’ worth of water that has recently fallen into the planet-forming region around an…
According to Dr. Kasthuri Venkateswaran, who led the study conducted at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, “These findings will advance…
Antarctica is home to the largest body of ice on Earth. Prior to approximately 10 years ago, no one thought that life could exist beneath the Antarctic ice…
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