The study, published in the October 28 Early Online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), is the first to demonstrate the…
It seems like the world has been made smaller by the modern internet and smartphone technologies. Yet, for the blind or visually impaired people, those…
They have set up the experiment to identify the nature of dark matter, an invisible substance that physicists believe is all around us, making up most of the…
The scientists have actively stabilized the wavelength of the photons emitted by a semiconductor thereby neutralizing the charge noise in the semiconductor….
Technology’s workhorse for determining protein structures is X-ray protein crystallography, in which a beam of x-rays sent through a crystallized protein is…
A theoretical, three-dimensional (3D) form of carbon that is metallic under ambient temperature and pressure has been discovered by an international research…
Starting with a severely affected family, a research research team led by Jeanette Erdmann, Christian Hengstenberg and Heribert Schunkert (Institut für…
A study by the Institute of Nursing Sciences at the University of Basel shows that all European countries are affected, but variability in these and other…
Researchers have identified some of the underlying physics that may explain how insects can so quickly recover from a stall in midflight — unlike conventional…
Earth’s oldest sedimentary rocks are not only rare, but also almost always altered by hydrothermal and tectonic activity. A new study from a team including…
Researchers have identified some of the underlying physics that may explain how insects can so quickly recover from a stall in midflight — unlike conventional…
The new study in PLoS Genetics, which may have broad implications across species, identifies the fly version the mammalian protein activin as the central…
Organized by Angers Expo Congrès for the past 25 years, SIVAL takes place in Angers (North-Western France), at the heart of the leading crop-production region….
A drug that acts like a growth-promoting protein in the brain reduces degeneration and motor deficits associated with Huntington’s disease in two mouse models…
For the first time, scientists have succeeded in transforming human stem cells into functional lung and airway cells. The advance, reported by Columbia…
Results of the National Research Programme “Sustainable Water Management” (NRP 61) suggest that the irregular decrease might be related to various degrees of…
“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future,” the Danish physicist Niels Bohr said – probably; because this quote has been attributed to at…
Now scientists report that they have found a way to penetrate the mystery. They have worked out every step in the molecular dance that enables one such…
A research team from the University of Bonn and the biomedical enterprise LIFE & BRAIN GmbH has been able to show that results of established test methods with…
Researchers have identified a gene that drives the development of tumours in over one per cent of all cancer patients. This is the first time that the gene…