(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of Birmingham and other UK universities describe the evolution and assembly of a stream ecosystem in South East Alaska in new de-glaciated terrain, from early insect and crustacean ...
Environment
Oct 18, 2011
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EPFL scientists have shown that inorganic, metal-containing molecules can be used to fight cancer. The discovery has opened up a whole new area of research.
Biochemistry
Oct 18, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA’s ice satellite is rolling left and right in orbit to help it continue its precise measurements of the vast ice sheets that blanket Greenland and Antarctica.
Earth Sciences
Oct 18, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Because of its cuteness factor, people tend to overlook the fact that giant panda’s are in fact bears, though very few likely forget that most other bears do eat meat. A lot of it. It’s hard to ...
The U.S. unemployment rate remains high. But the number of Americans without work is only part of our larger jobs crisis, says MIT economist Paul Osterman. The other part, he believes, is a deficit of worthwhile jobs: Tens ...
Economics & Business
Oct 18, 2011
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For the first time since the late, lamented EV1 faded into oblivion in 2003, General Motors is back in the battery electric business, as it announces that it will roll out a plug-in version of the Spark minicar (it's also ...
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 18, 2011
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The ability to see through walls is no longer the stuff of science fiction, thanks to new radar technology developed at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory.
Engineering
Oct 18, 2011
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As planktonic organisms the larvae of the marine annelid Platynereis swim freely in the open water. They move by activity of their cilia, thousands of tiny hair-like structures forming a band along the larval body and beating ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 18, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new survey shows that nearly half of internet users in Britain are ‘Next Generation Users’, who routinely access the internet on the move using portable devices – more than double the proportion ...
Internet
Oct 18, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Baby fish may be able to resist ocean currents and influence how and where they move, says a Victoria University researcher, although he is yet to work out how they do it.
Ecology
Oct 18, 2011
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