Oxygen performs many key functions in the body’s internal chemistry, but the life-sustaining molecule can’t do its job alone. Now, SLAC researchers and their collaborators are learning more about how iron-containing ...
Biochemistry
Nov 18, 2011
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Since the first organisms appeared on Earth approximately 3.8 billion years ago, life on the planet has had some close calls. In the last 500 million years, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions, including the event 66 ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 18, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Research into decision-making by European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) may help to explain why many animals, including humans, sometimes exhibit irrational preferences.
Plants & Animals
Nov 18, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Reduced-impact logging (RIL) in an Amazon rainforest generated profits while emitting a small fraction of carbon compared with total forest clearing, a University at Albany study concludes.
Environment
Nov 18, 2011
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Japan's emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) due to energy generation rose 4.4 percent to 1.12 billion tonnes in the year to March, marking the first annual rise in three years, the government said Friday.
Environment
Nov 18, 2011
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A detonation wave is a chemical reaction wave propagating at the velocity of a shock wave along the explosive charge. There is great demand for a detonation model that can accurately simulate the detonation process, which ...
Other
Nov 18, 2011
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Researchers at the University of Georgia have developed a "super strain" of yeast that can efficiently ferment ethanol from pretreated pine -- one of the most common species of trees in Georgia and the U.S. Their research ...
Biotechnology
Nov 18, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A mystery revealed 70 years ago when archaeologist Glenn A. Black suggested the ancient remains of two infants buried at Southern Indiana's Angel Mounds archaeological site were conjoined twins has been solved ...
Archaeology
Nov 18, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A lighter, greener, cheaper, longer-lasting battery. Who wouldn’t want that?
Materials Science
Nov 18, 2011
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Two NASA California centers have been selected to develop new space-aged technologies that could be game-changers in the way we look at planets from above and how we safely transport robots or humans through space and bring ...
Space Exploration
Nov 18, 2011
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