The finding provides important clues in the ongoing search for an effective HIV/AIDS vaccine, said researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham…
Their analysis represents the most detailed look to-date at the intergalactic medium within about four billion light-years of Earth. The astronomers say they…
The EU wants biofuels to make up 10 percent of transport fuels by 2020, and whether or not this has caused the recent food crisis, it has already begun to…
An ordinary observation with NASA’s Swift research satellite recently led to the first real-time sighting of a star in the process of exploding. Astronomers…
A group of researchers of the University of Málaga (UMA) have decided to improve one of such tools to apply it, for example, to the influence of the different…
Tracing biological collections, or biobanks, is crucial for genetic studies of all diseases, since using larger and larger collections is becoming the gold…
These results were presented this week at the IAU symposium 253 in Massachusetts, USA. COROT has now been operating for 510 days, and the mission started…
This year, the big hit with falcon-watchers has been the webcam at San Jose City Hall and a pair of falcons named Carlos and Clara, who are now raising three…
The future of fundamental physics research lies in observing the early universe and developing models that explain the new data obtained. The availability of…
On the pilot plant developed at the experimental station of Las Palmerillas, which depends on Spanish bank Cajamar, Almeria-based researchers try to prove the…
Is the smell of almonds closer to that of roses or bananas? Weizmann Institute scientists have now answered that question (roses) by showing for the first time…
Building faultless objects from faulty components may seem like alchemy. Yet scientists from the Weizmann Institute’s Computer Science and Applied Mathematics,…
The future of fundamental physics research lies in observing the early universe and developing models that explain the new data obtained. The availability of…
For the first time, a research team led by Hongjie Dai, the J. G. Jackson and C. J. Wood Professor of Chemistry, has made transistors called “field-effect…
The excitement centers around a new class of high-temperature superconductors — initially discovered in February and March by Japanese and Chinese researchers…
But now, an international scientific team has performed an impressive work of celestial archaeology: they have used the interstellar dust as a look-back mirror…
Scientists at the Bremen Institute for Production and Logistics GmbH (BIBA) at the University of Bremen already know from the results of their market study…
These sounds — and the scientific advances related to them — will only be found at the Acoustics’08 Paris meeting, to be held Monday June 30 through Friday…
“Being a consumer sometimes means fantasising and dreaming about objects, and this is boosted when we come face to face with things that arouse various…
A seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University and Newcastle University in the United Kingdom have found…