The study appeared online last week in advance of print publication in Nature. It is the first published study to search the entire genome looking for genes…
White-nose syndrome (WNS) is a poorly understood condition that, in the two years since its discovery, has spread to at least seven northeastern states and…
”The introduction of this particular system is critical as we continue to search for the balance between innovation and access. The likelihood that universal…
Data centers, central to the nation’s cyberinfrastructure, house computing, networking and storage equipment. Each time you make an ATM withdrawal, search the…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a strong new line of evidence that galaxies are embedded in halos of dark matter.Peering into the tumultuous heart…
The ADNI data will be used by researchers to search for genes that contribute to the development of Alzheimer’s disease, which currently affects up to 5…
Joseph Irudayaraj, a Purdue University associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering, developed the nanoscale, multifunctional probes, which…
Groundwater and soil quality are at risk, diseases are spreading unchecked and the ecological consequences are destroying the livelihood of the local…
The team have produced a material from a football-shaped molecule, called carbon60, to demonstrate how a superconductor – an element, compound or alloy that…
In the first observation if its kind, scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science and San Diego State University were able to watch what happens when a…
They have developed the first hollow gold nanospheres — smaller than the finest flecks of dust — that search out and “cook” cancer cells. The cancer-destroying…
NASA’s Kepler spacecraft just launched to find such worlds. Once the search succeeds, the next questions driving research will be: Is that planet habitable?…
“We developed an approach to find the location of trapped miners inside a collapsed mine, regardless of noise from the environment around the mine,” says…
Reports by scientists of meteorites striking Earth in the past have resembled police reports of so many muggings — the offenders came out of nowhere and then…
With pemphigus, the immune system attacks the organism: It attacks a group of proteins that is necessary for the cohesion of skin cells with antibodies. The…
Weizmann Institute scientists have devised a unique new mechanism for the formation of hydrogen and oxygen from water, without the need for sacrificial…
Cells are crisscrossed by microtubules, protein cables that provide infrastructure, which facilitate cellular migration and assist in transport of molecular…
Their findings, published in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE, conclude that biofuel crops proposed for use in the Hawaiian Islands are two to…
In the ongoing search for better ways to perform refractive surgery, the advent of femtosecond lasers capable of operating within the cornea has led to several…
The planet, “e”, in the famous system Gliese 581, is only about twice the mass of our Earth. The team also refined the orbit of the planet Gliese 581 d, first…