Solid rocket boosters were recently attached to the rocket. A series of nine strap-on solid rocket motors will next be mated with the rocket to help power the…

The detection of these immense stellar fossils confirms the predictions of the cold dark matter model of cosmology, which proposes that present-day grand…

In 1750, Denis Diderot convinced his publisher to support a vast enterprise, the publication of the Encyclopédie gathering all knowledge into one location.Dozens of writers worked on thousands of articles for more than 15 years to produce the first summary of all human knowledge and, despite the labour and pains of its birth, its entire contents would barely fill one volume of a contemporary encyclopaedia….

The reviewers want more regulation of the nutraceuticals industry, but an antioxidant researcher with the U.S. Department of Agriculture said that call for…

A frequency-agile metamaterial that for the first time can be tuned over a range of frequencies in the so-called “terahertz gap” has been engineered by a team…

The blueprint for the human body is encoded in genes. Gene expression is the process by which those blueprints are converted into proteins that make up the…

“The problem is how to build a large-scale data storage system to last 50 to 100 years,” said Ethan Miller, associate professor of computer science in the…

Tesaurvai can extract, annotate and organize specialized terms taken from a collection of digitalized texts. Tesaurvai complies with the ISO thesaurus building…

A team of scientists from Princeton University has found that one of the most intriguing phenomena in condensed-matter physics — known as the quantum Hall…

The iConnect (Impact of COnstructing Non-motorised Networks and Evaluating Changes in Travel) study aims to measure and evaluate the changes in travel,…

The Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology (IRCSET) has taken moves today to ensure that research papers published by its funding…

IGF-1 is a polypeptide hormone that can influence growth, differentiation and survival of cells expressing the type 1 receptor (IGF-1R). Past clinical,…

The two mills are to be equipped with “frozen charge shakers” which allow the controlled removal of charge stuck to the sides of the grinding pipe. The order…

“We have shown that when two proteins – (V600E)B-Raf and Akt3 – communicate with one another in a mole, they cooperate leading to the development of melanoma,”…

Scientists of the HepatoSys consortium, the network for the systems biology study of the liver cell (hepatocyte), have gained new insights into the processes…

International summer schools in Europe are attracting foreign students in ever-increasing numbers. For a number of years now, universities and colleges of…

It also looks at barriers to access, and the possibilities of future take-up among today’s non users. The BBVA Foundation completed a first round of the study…

Chinese researchers have recently made a “golden crown” with a diameter of only a few nanometers. It is a large ring-shaped molecule containing 36 gold atoms. The lords of the ring, a team of researchers from the Universities of Beijing, Hong Kong, and Nanjing report their unusual compound in the journal Angewandte Chemie: the molecular ring structure is held together exclusively by gold–gold bonds and is thus the largest ring system made of gold atoms produced to date. …

Viruses need a point-of-entry to a cell, typically binding to an antigen on the cell surface as a means of gaining access. The team, reporting in the March…

It is hard work to lift and heave a coffee sack, to carry it, to place it on a pallet and then to return for the next one. Overseas containers are packed up to…