The solar year was often determined as the interval between consecutive spring equinoxes when the sun is directly over the equator. The earliest definitions of time and time-interval...
In the past, ancestors of many modern human populations interbred with other hominin species that have since become extinct, such as the Neandertals and Denisovans. Mapping the gene ...
They investigated the impacts of levels of biodiversity on the severity of a fungal disease. Our experiments, on the other hand, used natural communities and species with similar abu...
In a major breakthrough, researchers at Columbia Engineering have harnessed the molecular machinery of living systems to power an integrated circuit. They achieved this by integratin...
Janani, Chennai Body fluids like sweat and tears are salty to taste and this has physiological, immunological and evolutionary significance. These tears are classified into basal, r...
For their study, Burkart and her colleagues developed the new paradigm of group service, which examines spontaneous helping behavior in a standardized way. The scientists applied thi...
After decades of search for these ripples in space-time, which Albert Einstein predicted exactly 100 years ago, scientists working with the gigantic optical instruments in the U.S. c...
The Integrated Tissue and Organ Printing System (ITOP), developed over a 10-year period by scientists at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine, overcomes these challenges. Two mont...
Olga Deacon, who has dementia, speaks with her granddaughter, Chris Boyce, in a replica 1940s kitchen, Friday, Nov. 6, 2015, at The Easton Home in Easton, Pa. Nursing homes and assis...
Scientists in Chile have created a chicken embryo that developed dinosaur-like feet after genetic manipulation, highlighting the evolutionary link between theropod dinosaurs and bird...
Marshall’s group also showed that the ocean’s response to the ozone hole can help explain the lack of warming to date around Antarctica. They found that this intensification of winds...
Gather your patience and put the old a watched pot never boils saying to the test. The experience might rival watching paint dry, but of course the water will eventually begin to boi...
Solace for solar physicists: Borexino results back theory Physicists working on the Borexino experiment in Italy have successfully detected neutrinos from the main nuclear reaction ...
Ageing of insulin-secreting cells is coupled to a progressive decline in signal transduction and insulin release, according to a recent study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet ...
Postdoc Peter Kindgren from Copenhagen Plant Science Centre at University of Copenhagen has received an EU Marie Curie grant to examine whether non-coding RNA play an important role ...
Death is more commonly the result of infections that can occur several months after being hospitalized. The researchers focused on the formidable bacterium called Pseudomonas aerugin...
The fact that these fusions are common to the majority of surveyed flowering plants is an important discovery in combatting plant disease. Dr Ksenia Krasileva, Lead author of the stu...
The resulting conversion of matter to energy could keeping the sun shining for many billions of years. Following Eddington’s insight it took years for a theory to be developed as to ...
The findings show a surprisingly high level of genetic diversity in honeybees, and indicate that the species most probably originates from Asia, and not from Africa as previously tho...
Electrical signals transmitted at high frequencies lose none of their energy when passed through the ‘wonder material’ graphene, a study led by Plymouth University has shown. Discove...
Just as waves spread out when a boat moves in water or a stone is thrown in a pond, gravitational waves are distortions in the curvature of space-time caused by motions of matter tha...
‘Germline’ editing can have an impact on future generations. DNA double helix. The sequence of the base groups (adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymine) along the DNA helix is known as t...
Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have analysed the natural climate variations over the last 12,000 years, during which we have had a warm interglacial period and they have l...
Genetic strategies to control dengue fever based on the release of sterile, transgenic mosquitoes are currently underway and have been successful where attempted. This discovery sets...
Applications Burning like the Sun 16/03/2016 16001 views 163 likes Engineers building parts of a new type of power plant for generating green energy with nuclear fusion are using th...