Evidence that the toxic element arsenic can replace the essential nutrient phosphorus in biomolecules of a naturally occurring bacterium expands the scope of…

NASA-funded research has uncovered a new life form on Earth, a microorganism that can not only survive but can thrive and reproduce by metabolizing arsenic, a…

A peculiar gas-giant planet orbiting a sun-like star 1200 light-years away is the first carbon-rich world ever observed.The implications are big for planetary…

Using a new gene sequencing method, a team of researchers led by scientists from Johns Hopkins and the National Institutes of Health has discovered a gene that…

For thousands of years people have wondered, “Are we alone?” Out of the 500 planets so far known to orbit nearby stars, about 100 transit their host stars,…

Red dwarfs are the most abundant stars in our universe and are presumably hosts to numerous planets. However, their erratic behavior could make life…

Spectroscopy, the study of how atoms absorb and emit electromagnetic radiation, is like listening, too. The technique is central to a range of physics…

Will we soon be plugging our mobile phone into our t-shirt instead of putting in a battery? This vision is not totally out of reach: the first steps in this…

When these sub-atomic particles collide at the heart of the CMS detector, the resultant energies and densities are similar to those that were present in the…

Geologists drilling an exploratory geothermal well in 2009 in the Krafla volcano in Iceland encountered a problem they were simply unprepared for: magma…

This is the first time that disk structures comparable in size to our own solar system have been resolved this clearly, revealing features such as rings and…

Researchers have described how the most common gene mutation found in acute myeloid leukaemia starts the process of cancer development and how it can cooperate…

As fiber optic technology continues to advance, it faces challenges from both its physical properties and its use of infrastructure. One emerging high-speed…

In a study appearing in the March 30, online edition of Nature, the dye, also known as Thioflavin T, (ThT) extended lifespan in healthy nematode worms by more…

Hear where the action is – this is the vision under which Fraunhofer IDMT’s directional sound mixer has created impressive acoustic effects on the festival…

Tiny particles only billionths of a meter in diameter—about two thousand would fit across the width of a human hair—could offer big hope in a small package to…

The discovery by two Penn State University researchers is a new type of symmetry in the structure of materials, which the researchers say greatly expands the…

The French Pavilion (Stand E1090 at Earl’s Court 2) will offer a unique environment in which company representatives can discover new products and find…

Many transportation companies in Germany have a serious problem: their trucks are only carrying part loads or returning to base empty. In the German road…

An Ohio State biophysicist used a supercomputer to search thousands of molecular combinations for the best configuration to block a protein that can cause…