(PhysOrg.com) -- A community of microbes, living in a frigid layer of gas hydrates deep beneath the Arctic permafrost, has piqued the interest of scientists who say a better understanding of that environment is important ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 18, 2008
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers are getting ready to pack NASA's Kepler spacecraft into a container and ship it off to its launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The mission, scheduled to launch on March 5, will ...
Space Exploration
Dec 18, 2008
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(PhysOrg.com) -- To many people, bird song can herald the coming of spring, reveal what kind of bird is perched nearby or be merely an unwelcome early morning intrusion. But to Sandra Vehrencamp, Cornell professor of neurobiology ...
Dec 18, 2008
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Like a well-trained army, the fundamental biological processes of organisms are coordinated through a hierarchy of finely tuned molecular commands. In a new paper published online Dec. 18 in the journal Genes ...
Dec 18, 2008
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If researchers could integrate some of the active materials, such as perovskites, that have been developed in recent years for microsensor, actuator, and transducer applications directly onto a flexible polymer ...
Engineering
Dec 18, 2008
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It's no simple matter to figure out how regional changes in precipitation, expected to result from global climate change, may affect water supplies. Now, a new analysis led by MIT researchers has found that ...
Environment
Dec 18, 2008
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When "superstar" academic scientists die, their collaborators experience a significant and permanent decline in productivity, according to a recent paper coauthored by MIT Sloan School of Management Professor ...
Other
Dec 18, 2008
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have successfully pushed nature beyond its limits by genetically modifying Escherichia coli, a bacterium ...
Dec 18, 2008
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A new type of highly sensitive microscopy developed by researchers at Harvard University could greatly expand the limits of modern biomedical imaging, allowing scientists to track the location of minuscule metabolites and ...
Dec 18, 2008
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the last several years, scientists have built a very convincing case that Mars hosted water, at least early in its history. Recent observations from the Mars Phoenix lander and other spacecraft show ...
Space Exploration
Dec 18, 2008
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