An international group of researchers led by Arnaud Belloche (MPIfR, Bonn, Germany) reports the first identification iso-propanol in interstellar space, a substance which is used as a sanitizer on Ea… [+7021 chars]
Bright and steadfast, quasars help astronomers in many ways. They are the glowing rubbish that supermassive black holes collect and cast off into space from the center of galaxies. Researchers use … [+3078 chars]
Introduction Recently growing bacterial resistance to antimicrobial drugs is a real danger to human health and has become one of the most serious matters in the medical sector. The antibiotics which… [+65589 chars]
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A geomagnetic storm hit our planet over the weekend, surprising scientists as it did not appear to originate from a solar flare. The storm came amid a rare alignment of five planets, offering photog… [+2356 chars]
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IN A GLOBAL period of belt-tightening, popular anger will spill over. Our correspondent visits places where powderkegs seem closest to being lit; our predictive model suggests where might be next. Ch… [+375 chars]
A diver explores the coral reef at the Bunaken Island marine protected national park in Manado, Indonesia on May 13, 2009 as the capital city of northern Sulawesi hosts the World Ocean Conference. Ph… [+5474 chars]
Researchers are using pulsar timing arrays, or PTAs to investigate ultra-low-frequency gravitational waves, that form the gravitational wave background, produced by the mergers of supermassive blackh… [+3527 chars]
Oral cancers are amongst the most common types of cancer worldwide. Their incidence amongst younger individuals has increased notably in recent decades with little change in mortality compared with o… [+7192 chars]
Optimization process of tandem structure NIR OLEDs were simply fabricated using a red emitter, Ir(piq)3 which has a broad photoluminescence (PL) peak from 550 to 800 nm, as shown in Fig. S1. NIR OLE… [+14287 chars]
An analysis of microbial genomes collected from more than 1,000 seawater samples from around the world has revealed a new family of bacteria rich in biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs). This new family… [+2620 chars]