Credit:Birgit Luef, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
It's the stuff of science fiction, though there's nothing fiction about it: Researchers have discovered a multitude of previously unidentified microorganisms possess a genetic element that enables them to self-mutate.
What's more, these...
Credit:Jeff Foster
Droplets and exhaled breath caught from the blowholes of killer whales along the Pacific coast are providing scientists with insights into whale health and revealing bacteria and fungi that may be a threat to the mammals.
"We wanted to...
The Latin translation next to the Arabic text helps represent the grammar and contents structure of the original better than a direct German translation would have done.
Credit: © RUB, Damian Gorczany
Bochum-based philologist Prof Dr Reinhold Glei has figured out...
On Wednesday, 12 October, Executive Board President Tim van der Hagen, Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Rob Fastenau, Head of the Department of Electrical Sustainable Energy Miro Zeman, and Pavol Bauer, who leads...
This artist's impression shows a possible seed for the formation of a supermassive black hole. Two of these possible seeds were discovered by an Italian team, using three space telescopes: the NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space...
Variations in a gene with multiple functions in neurons are present in approximately 3 percent of all cases of ALS in North American and European populations, both sporadic and familial, making it one of the most common genetic causes...
Deciding when and how to train infants to sleep through the night is one of the hardest issues for new parents, but a small study suggests the process needn’t always be stressful for mothers, fathers or babies.
Researchers followed 43...
This is Dendrilla membranosa, near Palmer Station, Antarctica. Credit: Bill Baker
A serious and sometimes fatal bacterial infection, known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), may soon be beatable thanks to the efforts of University of South Florida scientists who have...
The around 6000-year-old rock engravings can hardly be seen today. They were pecked into the rock with a hard point.
Credit: © Photo: David Sabel
Egyptologists at the University of Bonn discovered rock art from the 4th millennium BC during an...
With obesity rates on the rise worldwide and excess sugar consumption considered a direct contributor, the search has been on for treatments to reverse the trend. Now a world-first study led by QUT may have the answer.
Neuroscientist Professor Selena...
Image illustrating the concept of the sleep homeostat.Credit: Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour/ University of Oxford
Team unpeel one layer of the mystery of sleep as they develop understanding of the sleep homeostat
Oxford University researchers have discovered what causes...
