Researchers develop a new categorisation of food scares which will aid more efficient development of strategies to tackle the problem. Existing categorisations were found to...
Credit: Linda Morris/U.S. Ice Drilling Program The global climate is a complex machine in which some pieces are separate, yet others are connected. Scientists try...
A UC San Francisco-led study has identified signatures of ethnicity in the genome that appear to reflect an ethnic group's shared culture and environment, rather...
Credit: Asoka A, 2017 Changing rainfall is the key factor driving changes in groundwater storage in India, according to a new study led by the...
Even a mild rise in temperature damages insect's ability to reproduce Insect populations in high latitude countries are worst affected Identifying genes linked to increased...
Hoboken, NJ - January 10, 2017 - John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa and JWb) George Mason University have entered into a 10-year agreement...
The graphics cards found in powerful gaming computers are now capable of solving computationally intensive mathematical problems common in science and engineering applications, thanks to...
As part of the study, people had to guess what a group of three white or black actors had in common. When the common feature...
Theoretical physicists from the University of Plymouth have been awarded funding to enhance our understanding of the world and the universe that surrounds us. The...
Credit: Polytechnique Montréal Carbon nanotubes have made headlines in scientific journals for a long time, as has 3D printing. But when both combine with the...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Fewer veterans received prescriptions for risky dosages of opioid painkillers after a national initiative took aim at reducing high doses and...
Credit: James K. Liebherr While new species are most commonly described based on recent field collections, undertaken at poorly explored places, some are identified in...
Credit: Alexandre Bonnefoy In 2014 reports of an Antarctic fur seal coercing king penguins into sexual relations made headlines worldwide, as it was the first...
Plants with a particular breeding system change their sex depending on how much light they receive, new scientific research has revealed. The ability of plants...
Credit: Osaka University The formation and refinement of neural networks is known to be often an activity-dependent process, but mechanisms and nature of activity are...
