How well do we understand the relation between incorrect chromosome number & cancer?
Credit: CSHL Public Affairs Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Over a century ago, a German-born scientist experimenting with impregnated sea urchin eggs had an insight...
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New Caltech instrument poised to image the cosmic web
Credit: Caltech An instrument designed to image the vast web of gas that connects galaxies in the universe has been shipped from Los Angeles to...
Researchers quantify in high speed a viper’s strike in nature for the first time
Credit: Higham lab, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Feeding is paramount to the survival of almost every animal, and just about every living organism is...
CO2, the philosopher’s stone to obtain valuable pharmaceuticals
Credit: ICIQ Researchers at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) in Tarragona have developed a method that transforms cyclic carbonates -that can be...
Kazan University research may help speed up express testing
This new method detects nitrated derivatives up to 8 times faster. New sorption materials may soon facilitate the establishment of a new express test production...
Building London’s Houses of Parliament helped create clean-air laws
Britain's dazzling Houses of Parliament building, constructed from 1840 until 1870, is an international icon. But the building's greatest legacy may be something politicians and...
3-D printing could transform future membrane technology
Credit: University of Bath Researchers at the University of Bath suggest developments in 3D printing techniques could open the door to the advancement of membrane...
Iowa State engineer helps journal highlight how pyrolysis can advance the bioeconomy
Credit: Photo by Robert Mills/Iowa State University Bioeconomy Institute. AMES, Iowa - A special issue of the journal Energy Technology details the latest advances in...
Survival artists in the Antarctic
In order to improve our understanding of the impact climate change has on plant life in the Antarctic, the Rector of the University of Freiburg/Germany,...
Fighting viruses to improve agriculture
Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A University of California, Riverside researcher is leading a team that will receive $300,000 over two years to study...
Now entering ‘the valley of death’
Credit: Joe Angeles/WUSTL Photos From reading and hearing news accounts, the general public has a vague impression that some things are amiss with the pharmaceutical...
Crybaby: The vitamins in your tears
Credit: Sarah Bird, Michigan Tech Babies cry easily, but those tears may help shed light on the role and potential uses of vitamins in tears....
Vader Systems creates liquid metal 3-D printer for manufacturing
Loading video... Credit: Douglas Levere. BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A father and son team in the START-UP NY program have invented a liquid metal printing machine...
What makes erionite carcinogenic?
Credit: Photo: Kilian Pollok/FSU Jena (Jena/Germany) The mineral erionite is considered to be highly carcinogenic and is on the World Health Organisation's list of substances...
Sensory stimuli control dopamine in the brain
Credit: Photo: Research group Driever Regardless of whether we are sitting in a loud aeroplane or walking through a quiet forest clearing, how humans perceive...
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