Nature Genetics and the New England Journal of Medicine are publishing two separate but related studies today that report the most significant MS genetic…
“The majority of DNA in our bodies is packaged, or tightly structured,” said Gregory Crawford, Ph.D., a researcher in the IGSP and one of the senior…
“We are looking for Earth-like planets in the habitable zone of their star, a band not too hot nor too cold for life to exist,” says Darren M. Williams,…
The same NIST group also has shown that this type of laser, when used as a frequency comb—an ultraprecise technique for measuring different colors of…
The study could help in the development of new treatments for serious heart conditions such as infective endocarditis. The researchers studied the way a…
Speaking at the British Ecological Society’s Annual Meeting at Imperial College, London, Dr Helen Roy from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology will explain how…
Investigation of the fireball that lit up the skies of Alberta and Saskatchewan on November 20 has determined that an asteroid fragment weighing approximately…
The Meta-Mole, created by the Centre for Design in the Digital Economy (D-LAB) based within the University’s Institute of Digital Innovation, will ultimately…
The national research project is the first of its kind in Australia and one of the first of its kind in the world.”This collaborative research project has the…
“Making a three-dimensional map is essential to understanding why the universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating rate,” said UA astronomy professor Daniel…
In a paper published in the latest issue of the journal BioScience, David Flaspohler, Joseph Fargione and colleagues analyze the impacts on wildlife of the…
A part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III), BOSS achieved “first light” on the night of September 14-15, when it acquired data with an upgraded…
In all the world, there are about 200 types of zeolite, a compound of silicon, aluminum and oxygen that gives civilization such things as laundry detergent,…
Some Saharan dust falls back to Earth before it leaves Africa. Some of it streams out over the Atlantic Ocean or Mediterranean Sea, carried on the wind as far…
Sung-Won Lee, an assistant professor of physics at Texas Tech and a member of the university’s High Energy Physics Group, said researchers have not given up…
Finding life on Mars could get easier with a creative adaption to a common analytical tool that can be installed directly on the robotic arm of a space rover.In a recent paper published online in the journal Planetary and Space Science, a team of researchers propose adding a laser and an ion funnel to a widely used scientific instrument, the mass spectrometer, to analyze the surfaces of rocks and other samples directly on Mars’ surface. The researchers demonstrated that the combined system could work on the spot, without the sample handling that mass spectrometry usually requires….
These gamma rays, called MEGa-rays (for mono-energetic gamma rays), are made by using a beam of fast-moving electrons to convert laser photons (light at a…
Professor Khalil Najafi, the chair of electrical and computer engineering, and doctoral student Erkan Aktakka are finding ways to harvest energy from insects,…
The Kavli Foundation spoke with three prominent researchers about this and other exciting findings that are moving scientists closer to understanding how the…
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