A simple process pioneered by an ANU plant chemist could help to remove harmful levels of cyanide from the diets of millions of people in the developing world.

Chemistry -

Feb 07, 2007 4.8 / 5 (4) 0

Human DNA patents are unlikely to be the barrier to medical and scientific innovation that they were first feared to be, according to new findings published this week.

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Feb 07, 2007 2.8 / 5 (4) 0

Today the joint ESA-NASA Ulysses mission has marked another high point in its mission. For the third time in a long and highly successful career, Ulysses has reached its maximum south solar latitude of 80 degrees ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Feb 07, 2007 2.8 / 5 (6) 0

Physicists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology have taken the first ever two-dimensional pictures of a "frequency comb," providing extra information that enhances the ...

Physics - General Physics

Feb 07, 2007 4.1 / 5 (17) 0

Physicists have for the first time stopped and extinguished a light pulse in one part of space and then revived it in a completely separate location. They accomplished this feat by completely converting the ...

Physics - General Physics

Feb 07, 2007 4.7 / 5 (171) 0

Researchers report discovering the receptor through which a group of life-threatening hemorrhagic fever viruses enter and attack the body's cells, and show that infection can be inhibited by blocking this receptor. The findings, ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Feb 07, 2007 5 / 5 (1) 0

Temperatures are rising on Earth, which is heating up the debate over global warming and the future of our planet, but what may be needed most to combat global warming is a greater focus on adapting to our ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 07, 2007 4.4 / 5 (21) 0

The largest climate change in central North America since the age of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, a temperature drop of nearly 15 degrees Fahrenheit, is documented within the fossilized teeth of horses ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Feb 07, 2007 4.2 / 5 (41) 0

Marijuana-like chemicals in the brain may point to a treatment for the debilitating condition of Parkinson's disease. In a study to be published in the Feb. 8 issue of Nature, researchers from the Stanford University School ...

Medicine & Health - Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Feb 07, 2007 4.5 / 5 (27) 0

The bacterium that causes most kinds of stomach ulcers has been present in the human digestive tract ever since Homo sapiens ventured out of Africa some 60,000 years ago, a study says.

Biology -

Feb 07, 2007 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

Female Antarctic fur seals will travel across a colony to actively seek males which are genetically diverse and unrelated, rather than mate with local dominant males.

Biology -

Feb 07, 2007 3 / 5 (2) 0

Doctors have long wondered why, in some people, the immune system turns against parts of the body it is designed to protect, leading to autoimmune disease. Now, researchers at the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Feb 07, 2007 4.3 / 5 (6) 0

Physicists at JILA have demonstrated that the warmer a surface is, the stronger its subtle ability to attract nearby atoms, a finding that could affect the design of devices that rely on small-scale interactions, ...

Physics - General Physics

Feb 07, 2007 4.8 / 5 (24) 0

A new analysis led by an MIT scientist describes a mechanism for capturing carbon dioxide emissions from a power plant and injecting the gas into the ground, where it would be trapped naturally as tiny bubbles and safely ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Feb 07, 2007 4.5 / 5 (15) 0

Just a few whiffs of a chemical found in male sweat is enough to raise levels of the stress hormone cortisol in heterosexual women, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, scientists.

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Feb 07, 2007 4.5 / 5 (51) 0