AZTI to coordinate scientific advisory services to the EC on fishing outside the EU waters
Credit: AZTI The aim of the framework contract is to provide the European Commission the scientific advice they need in order to ensure the sustainable...
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Scientists crack genetic code determining leaf shape in cotton
Credit: Vasu Kuraparthy Researchers know that the variation in leaf shapes can mean big differences in a farmer's bottom line. Now, a new discovery gives...
Innovative proposal in the wind energy sector won the APREN Award
Credit: APREN Renewable energy was responsible for producing this year around 59% of the total amount of electricity in Portugal and it is expected that...
Rejuvenating the brain’s disposal system
Heidelberg, 21 December 2016 - A characteristic feature of Alzheimer's disease is the presence of so called amyloid plaques in the patient's brain - aggregates...
Artificial leaf as mini-factory for drugs
Credit: Bart van Overbeeke To produce drugs sustainably and cheaply, anywhere you want. Whether in the middle of the jungle or even on Mars. A...
The dirt on packaged rhino beetles
Credit: Aubrey Moore Bags of potting soil have become love hotels and nurseries for the highly invasive coconut rhinoceros beetle on the island of Guam....
133 new species described by the California Academy of Sciences in 2016
Credit: © Luiz Rocha SAN FRANCISCO (December 21, 2016) -- In 2016, researchers at the California Academy of Sciences added 133 new plant and animal...
New instrumentation for research
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) is funding new instrumentation for various fields of knowledge-driven research through two calls. The Joint Committee of the...
Chemistry research breakthrough that could improve nuclear waste recycling technologies
Researchers from The University of Manchester have taken a major step forward by describing the quantitative modelling of the electronic structure of a family of...
New ultrasound technique is first to image inside live cells
Credit: University of Nottingham Researchers at The University of Nottingham have developed a break-through technique that uses sound rather than light to see inside live...
Magnetic force pulls baby reef fish back home
Baby reef fish have an internal magnetic 'compass' that directs them home at night, world-first research has revealed. Professor Mike Kingsford from the ARC Centre...
Researchers reveal the secret code language of bacteria
Credit: Associate Professor Ditlev E. Brodersen Antibiotic resistance in pathogenic bacteria is a growing global challenge. Danish researchers have now discovered that bacteria use a...
Hawaii’s newest species named in honor of President Obama
Credit: Brian Skerry / National Geographic Today, scientists from the Bishop Museum, NOAA, and the Association for Marine Exploration published the description of a new...
Biomarker for oxidative stress plays a major role in hepatic inflammation
Credit: CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Diet-related diseases like non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are known to have...
The luxury of causality: Parallel Intelligence, a proposed move toward the intelligent future
Artificial intelligence (AI) is learning - from the real world. Nine months ago, a computer beat one of the world's best players at one of...