In a discovery important for agriculture and food safety, scientists report the genetic regulation of a model plant’s immune response.The mechanism of plant defense mediated by the non-expressor of p… [+5015 chars]
Study site and context Ambatovy is a very large nickel, cobalt and ammonium sulphate mine in central-eastern Madagascar owned by a consortium of international mining companies50. It represents the l… [+18936 chars]
Seven astronauts aboard the International Space Station woke to unwelcome news on the morning of November 15, 2021. NASA, the U.S. space agency, was worried. The station was zooming directly into a s… [+13091 chars]
No place have researchers found more Neolithic pile dwellings than around the Alps. It is a mystery, however, how this "building boom" came to be. Researchers at the University of Basel have now unco… [+4186 chars]
Study site and context Ambatovy is a very large nickel, cobalt and ammonium sulphate mine in central-eastern Madagascar owned by a consortium of international mining companies50. It represents the l… [+18936 chars]
Wearable devices could soon be entirely made of recycled waste materials — and powered by human movement, thanks to a new energy-harvesting device developed at the University of Surrey.Scientists hav… [+1640 chars]
A huge amount of mysterious dark energy is necessary to explain cosmological phenomena, such as the accelerated expansion of the Universe, with Einstein’s theory. But what if dark energy was just an … [+3474 chars]
Just as electrons flow through an electrical conductor, magnetic excitations can travel through certain materials. Such excitations, known in physics as "magnons" in analogy to the electron, could tr… [+7721 chars]
BEIJING, March 3 (Xinhua) -- An international team including Chinese, French, and German archeologists has reported a unique pigment-processing and stone-making culture of our immediate ancestors in … [+3465 chars]
A University of Otago study of tooth wear in a group of wild Japanese macaques has important implications for the study of human evolution. A Bizarre Study Dr. Ian Towle and Dr. Carolina Loch of th… [+2971 chars]
Antarctic waters have conditions in which objects and living creatures can freeze even under water. This is a major problem for marine travel in polar regions. So-called supercooled water has a tempe… [+2852 chars]
Seven astronauts aboard the International Space Station woke to unwelcome news on the morning of November 15, 2021. NASA, the U.S. space agency, was worried. The station was zooming directly into a s… [+13091 chars]
