The new study is important because it gives scientists a peek inside the black box of ecological change in response to a warming world. In addition, the work…
The enormous complexity of biological processes requires the use of highperformance technologies —also known as ‘omics’—, that are capable of carrying out…
Johns Hopkins researchers have identified a rare gene mutation in a single family with a high rate of schizophrenia, adding to evidence that abnormal genes…
In research published in the Jan. 21 issue of The Journal of Cell Biology, a team led by Susana Gonzalo, Ph.D., assistant professor of biochemistry and…
An estimated one in three whites who died of cocaine exposure is a carrier of variants that make cocaine abuse particularly deadly.The variants are found in…
Now, new observations by an international team, including University of Vermont astrophysicist Joanna Rankin, make these bizarre stars even more puzzling.The…
Sea life studies aid researchers in several ways, including the development of new medications and biofuels. Because many of these ocean animal species have…
Networks of narrow ridges found in impact craters on Mars appear to be the fossilized remnants of underground cracks through which water once flowed, according…
The disk surrounding the young star TW Hydrae is regarded as a prototypical example of planetary nurseries. Due to its comparatively close proximity of 176…
It would be a terrible thing if laboratories striving to grow graphene from carbon atoms kept winding up with big pesky diamonds.“That would be trouble,…
Now a team of astronomers including Robert Gutermuth, a University of Massachusetts Amherst expert in imaging data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, reports…
In the new study, described in an online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of February 4, 2013, the researchers…
The fossilised bones come from the Late Cretaceous rocks of Sebeþ-Glod in the Transylvanian Basin, Romania, which are approximately 68 million years old. The…
The new approach is called model-based iterative reconstruction, or MBIR.”It’s more-or-less how humans solve problems by trial and error, assessing probability…
Though several models predict this behavior and evidence from supernovae points in this direction, actually observations of such pre-explosion outbursts have…
Led by Lane Martin, a professor of materials science and engineering, the group published its results in the journal Advanced Materials.Ferroelectric…
Researchers employed an extensive analysis of genomic information to identify a new, high-risk cohort of ovarian cancer patients, characterize their tumors,…
They can already stand, walk, wriggle under obstacles, and change colors. Now researchers are adding a new skill to the soft robot arsenal: jumping.Using small…
One University of Alberta researcher has discovered that language used on billboards can provoke an emotional response that affects our driving abilities. And…
In the search for renewable alternatives to gasoline, heavy alcohols such as isobutanol are promising candidates. Not only do they contain more energy than…
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