This infographic shows the countries in which the study took place and the protected area sites. Credit: The University of Sussex
The world's protected areas do benefit a broad range of species - scientists from a collaborative research project led...
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...
Garden grass could become a source of cheap and clean renewable energy, scientists have claimed.
A team of UK researchers, including experts from Cardiff University's Cardiff Catalysis Institute, have shown that significant amounts of hydrogen can be unlocked from fescue...
Collection of wild Arabidopsis thaliana from around the world that has adapted to local environments. This collection of plants was used to understand the patterns of population genetic and epigenomic diversity within a species. Credit: Patrick Gooden, Kathleen Donohue...
Dutch telecoms group KPN said Thursday that The Netherlands had become the first country in the world to implement a nationwide long range (LoRa) network for the so-called Internet of Things.
Connecting everyday objects to networks, allowing them to send...
This scene shows NASA's Curiosity Mars rover at a location called "Windjana," where the rover found rocks containing manganese-oxide minerals, which require abundant water and strongly oxidizing conditions to form.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Chemicals found in Martian rocks by NASA's Curiosity Mars...
KM3NeT - a European collaboration pioneering the deployment of kilometre cubed arrays of neutrino detectors off the Mediterranean coast - has reported in detail on the scientific aims, technology and costs of its proposal in the Journal of Physics...
Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) have been pursued for decades as potential molecular targets to treat cognitive dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease (AD) due to their demonstrated role in processes underlying cognition such as synaptic facilitation, and theta and gamma wave...
Steven Austad is pictured. Credit: UAB
This simple statement holds a tantalizing riddle that Steven Austad, Ph.D., and Kathleen Fischer, Ph.D., of the University of Alabama at Birmingham explore in a perspective piece published in Cell Metabolism on June 14.
"Humans...
According to a new study, child adversities, which are known to play an important role in mental and physical health, are also associated with poor sleep.
Child abuse, parental divorce and parental death, where shown to be associated with higher...
PNNL researchers saw for the first time a phenomenon that was theorized more than 20 years ago. Shown here is a PNNL illustration of the phenomenon, "solvent cavitation under solvo-phobic confinement," which PNNL researchers saw occur with carbon-rich nanorods...
