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Health & Medicine

Best Breakfast Bread for Steady Blood Sugar All Day

This is due to a combination of low GI (glycemic index) and certain type of indigestible carbohydrates that occur in certain grain products. The findings are…

Life & Chemistry

Fast Microchip Test Detects Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

For the first time doctors and veterinarians will be able to test clinical samples from their patients for the presence of the genes for antibiotic resistance…

Life & Chemistry

Prions and Retroviruses: Exploring Their Unlikely Connection

In work originating from the Bavarian Research Cooperation Prions (FORPRION), which ended in 2007, a team led by the scientist Prof. Dr. Christine Leib-Mösch…

Life & Chemistry

How Squid Migration Shaped Whale and Dolphin Sonar Evolution

Behind the sailor’s lore of fearsome battles between sperm whale and giant squid lies a deep question of evolution: How did these leviathans develop the…

Life & Chemistry

Bee Researchers Advance Understanding of Colony Collapse Disorder

“We have not proven a causal relationship between any infectious agent and CCD,” the researchers report in today’s (Sept. 6) issue of Science Express online….

Information Technology

W3C Connects HTML and Semantic Web for Enhanced Data Sharing

Today, the World Wide Web Consortium completed an important link between Semantic Web and microformats communities. With “Gleaning Resource Descriptions from…

Life & Chemistry

New Mechanism Unveiled for DNA Recombination and Repair

The team has recently published two structural biology articles related to RecA family recombinases. One paper is to be published in the online, open-access…

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers Use Neon to Track Planet Formation in Stars

University of Arizona astronomers who collaborated in the observations say that neon could show which stars retain their surrounding dust-and-gas disks needed…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Regulation’s Role in Common Human Diseases Explained

This surprising result comes from a study at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute of the activity of almost 14,000 genes in 270 DNA samples collected for the…

Physics & Astronomy

Galaxy 'Hunting' Made Easy

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have discovered in a single pass about a dozen otherwise invisible galaxies halfway across the Universe. The…

Studies and Analyses

New Universal Rule Explains Plant Equilibrium Dynamics

The research project, whose results will appear in the next issue of the U.S. journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, also concludes that the…

Life & Chemistry

Ancient whale fall from California's Año Nuevo Island one of youngest, most complete known

A fossilized whale skeleton excavated 20 years ago amid the stench and noise of a seabird and elephant seal rookery on California’s Año Nuevo Island turns out…

Studies and Analyses

New Universal Rule Explains Plant Population Equilibrium

The research project, whose results will appear in the next issue of the U.S. journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, also concludes that the…

Physics & Astronomy

University Leads Effort to Map the Universe with SKA Telescope

The £1.1 billion (Euro 1.5bn) Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope will be around 200 times bigger and 100,000 times more powerful than the famous…

Life & Chemistry

Melanin’s Dual Role: Sunburn Protection and Crayfish Defense

The production of melanin is an important protective reaction that gives us a sunburn, for instance. In invertebrate animals it has long been observed that…

Environmental Conservation

Crabs’ Takeaway Strategy in Wadden Sea Revealed by Research

With this takeaway strategy the crabs maximise their food uptake and keep competing crabs at a distance, says Dutch researcher Isabel Smallegange. Food is not…

Physics & Astronomy

Students Select HiRISE Targets on Mars for Astronomy Class

This week, an astronomy and space research class at the Alternative Secondary School of Economics in Budapest, Hungary, chose HiRISE’s “student image of the…

Life & Chemistry

MicroRNA Linked to Tumor Metastasis: New Insights Unveiled

The jury is in: microRNAs can cause tumors to metastasize. These tiny molecules fine-tune protein production and play a powerful role in biological processes…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Endangered Tropical Kelp Forests Discovered by Researchers

A research team led by San Jose State University and the University of California, Santa Barbara has discovered forests of a species of kelp previously thought…

Earth Sciences

New Insights from Siberian Research on Deluge Traces

Researchers of the Irkutsk State University and Institutes of the Earth’s Crust and Geochemistry (Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences) have recently…

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