We all know that animals have an immune system - but plants have systems to fight infection too. Plant cells have receptor proteins which bind with parts of a pathogen. These receptor proteins are located on the surface of ...
Biotechnology
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It may not be a household name like Microsoft, Apple or Sony, but Cisco Systems is almost the same size. Cisco is the world's largest supplier of networking equipment such as routers and switches which plug together the various ...
Security
Oct 14, 2015
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Two teams of researchers led by Nariaki Nitta from the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center in the USA and by Radoslav Bucík from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany have independently ...
Astronomy
Oct 14, 2015
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Humans are less likely to form successful working relationships with interactive robots if they are programmed to be too perfect, new research reveals.
Robotics
Oct 14, 2015
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It is one year since the tragic deaths of jockeys Carly-Mae Pye and Caitlin Forrest in Australia. Since then, horse racing has claimed two more lives – track work riders English-born Lizz Rice and German-born Friederike ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 14, 2015
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Original scientific research by two recent graduates from UH Mānoa's Global Environmental Science (GES) undergraduate program has shed new light on Hawai'i's past and current natural environment.
Earth Sciences
Oct 14, 2015
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For senior Patrick Rall, a native of Munich, Germany, the summer offers one of the year's few chances to visit home. But for the last two summers, Rall, a Caltech physics major, has been spending his summers on campus, drawn ...
Quantum Physics
Oct 14, 2015
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Dr David Taylor-Robinson and colleagues from the University's Institute of Psychology, Health and Society believe health outcomes for children and young people in the UK will become worse under the new proposals after studying ...
Social Sciences
Oct 14, 2015
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The time has come for a philosophical change in the way the American legal system, government and private business view innovations created by private citizens, a University of Kansas professor argues in a new law review ...
Economics & Business
Oct 14, 2015
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Armagh Observatory reports that the next three weeks, from mid-October to the first week of November, will provide an interesting opportunity to observe a "dance" of the brightest planets Venus, Jupiter and Mars in the morning ...
Space Exploration
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