Flooding in August 2005 in Kappl-Nederle (Paznaun Valley, Tyrol).
Credit: TU Wien/ASI/Land Tirol/BH Landeck
A study conducted by TU Wien and 30 European partners shows that the timing of the floods has shifted across much of Europe, dramatically in some areas....
Pigs.
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Scientists have edited the pig genome to deactivate a family of retroviruses. The results hold important implications for transplant medicine in humans. The shortage of human organs and tissues for transplantation represents one of the...
The Apollo 15 moon rock sample, which was analyzed by MIT and Rutgers University researchers, consists of basalt fragments welded together by a dark glassy matrix that was produced by melting from a meteorite impact. The black scale cube...
Pasture with young second-growth forest in the background in Chiapas, Mexico.
Credit: Robin Chazdon
Climate scientists have long recognized the importance of forest conservation and forest regrowth in climate mitigation and carbon sequestration -- capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere....
The microbattery created by Jie Xiao and Daniel Deng and colleagues, amid grains of rice.
Credit: Image courtesy of DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Scientists have created a microbattery that packs twice the energy compared to current microbatteries used to monitor the...
Overexpressing a single gene called Arc rejuvenates the visual cortex of middle-age mice, making them as plastic as younger mice.
Credit: Elissa Pastuzyn
Like much of the rest of the body, the brain loses flexibility with age, impacting the ability to...
Side view of the brain summarizing blood flow results from tens of thousands of study subjects shows increased blood flow in women compared to men, highlighted in the red colored areas of the brain: the...
Zebra.
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In the last 20 years, the field of animal coloration research has experienced explosive growth thanks to numerous technological advances, and it now stands on the threshold of a new era.
That's the conclusion of 27...
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that a particular gut microbe can prevent severe flu infections in mice, likely by breaking down naturally occurring compounds -- called flavonoids -- commonly found in foods...
Researchers Bjorn Scholz (left) and Grayson Rich (right) with the world's smallest neutrino detector as it's being installed along 'neutrino alley' at the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
Credit: Juan Collar/University of Chicago
In 1974, a...
Associate Professor Li Daiqin (right) and Ms Chang Chia-chen (left) from the Department of Biological Sciences at NUS found that the personality of spiders determine their decision-making and hunting styles.
Credit: Image courtesy of National University of Singapore
Spiders, like humans...
