A 14-year study by the Wildlife Conservation Society in an atoll reef lagoon in Glover’s Reef, Belize has found that fishing closures there produce encouraging…
Prof. Irit Sagi of the Biological Regulation Department and her research group have spent years looking for ways to home in on and block members of the matrix…
From pre-packed Camembert to shrink-wrapped meat loaf – choosing the right packaging is a key issue in the food industry. Companies need to protect food…
The scientists, led by Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Eric Mamajek of Rochester and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, used data from…
For years, astronomers have been developing a picture of galaxy evolution in which mergers between spiral galaxies could explain why nearby large elliptical…
The search for more effective methods of decontamination of radioactive substances discharged from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant following the…
A team led by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has isolated a natural hormone from muscle cells that triggers some of the key health benefits of…
Earlier studies had shown that breast cancer cells treated with TDF lost their cancerous characteristics and began acting like normal mammary cells, suggesting…
Her high school tutor had actually advised her against studying chemistry, saying that it was not a subject for a woman, but if she really must study it then…
Supercomputers, like the ones made available to scientists within PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), which provide computing power in the…
An international team of scientists has found one of the rarest and least known primates in Borneo, Miller’s Grizzled Langur, a species which was believed to…
The research groups headed by Prof. Christoph Dehio and Prof. Tilman Schirmer could demonstrate that through the alteration of one single amino acid this…
Storage and containment of the “nuclear legacy”, the highly radiotoxic residues from spent nuclear reactors is a pressing problem for the nuclear power…
The research, published recently in the Journal of Molecular Biology, provides an extremely reliable system with which to model and quantify the effect of…
A study published in Nature Climate Change today finds that tropical vegetation contains 21 percent more carbon than previous studies had suggested. Using a…
Industrial robots have been a familiar sight in the workplace for many years. In automotive and household appliance manufacture, for example, they have proved…
Conservationists working in Central Africa to save the world’s rarest gorilla have good news: the Cross River gorilla has more suitable habitat than previously…
U.S. defense agencies, which have funded this research, are supporting the development of bug-size flyers to carry out reconnaissance, search-and-rescue and…
Researchers say the concentration of two molecules called non-coding RNAs in blood were associated with mild cartilage damage in 30 patients who were one year…
Researchers found that older male white-crowned sparrows don’t put much of a fight when they hear a young male singing in their territory – probably because…
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