Researchers from IMDEA-Nanociencia Institute and from Autonoma and Complutense Universities of Madrid (Spain) have managed to give graphene magnetic properties. The breakthrough, published in the journal ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

May 10, 2013 4.4 / 5 (8) 2 |

An international team lead by the University of Granada has found that female sparrows will invest more energy into laying eggs according to the male's ability to fill the nest with feathers which serve to ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 07, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Traffic accidents involving wildlife are on the rise in Europe. The establishment of a time pattern for the accidents could be useful for increasing safety and preventing human and animal deaths. On the basis ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 23, 2013 not rated yet 0

The recipe and process for preparing Maya Blue, a highly-resistant pigment used for centuries in Mesoamerica, were lost. We know that the ingredients are a plant dye, indigo, and a type of clay known as palygorskite, but ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Apr 02, 2013 2.3 / 5 (3) 2

Researchers from the University of Castilla-La Mancha have developed a measurement system that permits the prediction of atmospheric pollution due to nitrogen oxides in a specific location and at a particular ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 26, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Researchers from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia have developed a technique that improves and cuts the cost of a technique called electroporation, which involves opening pores in cell membranes using ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Feb 07, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

Researchers from CSIC's Aula Dei Experimental Station in Zaragoza, Spain have confirmed that the frequency of intense rainfall has been decreasing in the Ebro basin since 1955.

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 05, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 0

The population of Yelkouan Shearwater of the French island of Le Levant is seriously under threat due to the invasion of wild cats, according to a French and Spanish joint study. The archipelago is home to ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 01, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

A team of scientists have described twenty four new species of dipterans belonging to Quichuana genus, of which only a further 24 species were known. The researchers, including two Spanish biologists, have ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jan 31, 2013 not rated yet 0

In 1901 the star GK Persei gave off a powerful explosion that has not stopped growing and astonishing ever since. Now a team of Spanish and Estonian astronomers has reconstructed the journey of the emitted ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Jan 24, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 0

Amongst the range of domestic livestock species, the goat is not just the 'black sheep' but a resource of survival in impoverished countries, and many breeds are at great risk of disappearing. This is the ...

Biology - Ecology

Jan 23, 2013 not rated yet 0

Researchers at the Centre of Astrobiology have identified microorganisms that live inside salt deposits in the acidic and ferrous environment of the Tinto River in Huelva, Spain. The extreme conditions of ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Jan 11, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 2

An international team of scientists have observed the behaviour of various groups of cetaceans in the Strait of Gibraltar and Cape Breton in Canada belonging to the Globicephala melas species, which are also ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Nov 23, 2012 not rated yet 1

Millions of years ago fire and water forged the gypsum rocks locked in at Cuatro Ciénegas, a Mexican valley similar to the Martian crater where NASA's Rover Curiosity roams. A team of researchers have now ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Oct 29, 2012 4.2 / 5 (5) 3 |

A team of Spanish scientists have found a new ursid fossil species in the area of Nombrevilla in Zaragoza, Spain. Agriarctos beatrix was a small plantigrade omnivore and was genetically related to giant pandas, ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

May 09, 2012 4.8 / 5 (6) 0