The workers had been contaminated as they took organ samples from green monkeys imported from Uganda. Up to the end of the 20th Century, rare cases of violent…
“Today’s release of genetic and phenotypic data on autism marks a significant achievement for the autism research community,” said Thomas Insel, Ph.D.,…
W3C provides new means for people to create and find mobile friendly content. W3C invites Web authors to run the alpha release of the W3C mobileOK checker and…
At yesterday’s International Solid State Circuit Conference, IMEC presents three ultra-low-power analog to digital converters (ADC) with record figures of…
Sound like an episode from the “Twilight Zone”” Almost, but not quite; according to John Simonetti, associate professor of physics in the College of Science…
Finding symmetries is a way to highlight shortcuts to answers that, for example, verify the safety of train schedules, identify bugs in software and hardware…
Canada is building the world’s first space telescope designed to detect and track asteroids as well as satellites. Called NEOSSat (Near Earth Object…
Frozen water, safe soil, images of treadmarks in red, granular soil: almost every day brings new test results or stunning photographs from the Phoenix…
Their findings narrow the search for the elusive ancestral clues known as single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs, that cause disease and account for the…
The small helicopters would be remotely controlled and would be able to send back pictures and data to a central command post. They would also be able to…
Flexibilityle with real-world, customer-driven features – This is what defines the latest release of the EPLAN Platform, version 1.9, being introduced at the…
Dark matter is believed to account for 85 per cent of the Universe’s mass but has remained invisible to telescopes since scientists inferred its existence from…
“Innovate or die” has become the mantra of today’s fast-moving business world. However, the potential for innovation is underexploited in central and eastern…
This exercise was sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate to develop performance standards for robots for use in…
Using the InChI – an IUPAC standard identifier for compounds – scientists can share and contribute their own molecular data and search millions of others from…
David Kipping, whose work is funded by the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), has found that such moons can be revealed by looking at…
New research, published in the journal PLoS One (on Wednesday 25 February 2009), explains how this curious behaviour can be predicted by adapting models more…
This is the very first time that an asteroid that hit the Earth has been studied before entering our atmosphere, allowing the scientists to predict whether it…
An expanded version of INFOTHERM®, the database with thermophysical experimental data, will be presented at ACHEMA. Its new form saves chemical engineers and…
Predation is one of the most fundamental and fascinating interactions in nature, and sharks are some of the fiercest predators on Earth. However, their hunting…