On April 1 at 01:35 UTC (March 31 at 9:35 p.m. EDT), the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument aboard NASA’s Terra satellite…
Low-frequency alternating magnetic fields such as those generated by overhead power lines are considered a potential health risk because epidemiological…
The richness of species in an ecosystem is not only a source of joy for nature lovers; it also defines an ecosystem’s functional characteristics and…
An international collaboration led by the research group of superheavy elements at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Tokai, Japan has achieved the…
Tuning the para position of benzene moieties is significant for creating biologically active compounds and optoelectronic materials. Yet, attaching a…
Uncovering the mystery on the evolution of fertilization in Arabidopsis by live cell imaging
If someone has sustained a life-threatening brain injury, for example, they often need to be transferred to a specialist hospital. This hospital receives the…
Whether it’s water treatment or virus and protein separation, porous membranes are utilised in many different separation functions. What is particularly…
Scientists from BASF Crop Protection and the University of Göttingen in Germany have found a new insecticide target protein. The discovery marks the first…
The test results are in. All in all, they are positive, along with a couple of suggestions for improvement: StreetPong, the world’s first traffic-light game,…
A new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change shows that, when looking at the production site alone, growing biofuel crops can have a significant…
The Second Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin (BACC II), a recently published report, serves as a revision and expansion of the 2008 edition…
Mainz-based researchers have made significant advances with regard to the development of individualized immunotherapy strategies for treating cancer. They have…
For years scientists were unable to determine whether it is warming air temperatures or warmer ocean currents that is causing the Antarctic Peninsula’s…
Scientists took the opportunity to observe Ana’s wind dynamics with the International Space Station-Rapid Scatterometer (ISS-RapidScat). The instrument, which…
Carbon dioxide (CO2) exists naturally in the atmosphere, but it is also the greenhouse gas that is most altered by human activities, most notably fossil fuel…
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have just taken a big step toward the goal of engineering dynamic nanomaterials…
In a new twist on the use of DNA in nanoscale construction, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and…
Charles Darwin had a very clear opinion of Galápagos marine iguanas – “a hideous-looking creature, of a dirty black colour, stupid and sluggish in its…
After a two-year operational pause and two months after its restart in April 2015, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN research center is now again…
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