How complexity evolved in cells is a question as intriguing as it is difficult to explain. Though we cannot fully solve the puzzle, we can learn how species give themselves time to go from random to programmed development.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 19, 2013
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University of Adelaide researchers have started a new project investigating the conditions for riverbank collapse.
Environment
Dec 19, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Ongoing work by University of Alberta researcher Scott Chang is providing cautious optimism about how forest soil and trees are coping with oilsands development in Northern Alberta.
Environment
Dec 19, 2013
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(Phys.org) —It's been a big year for the University of Alberta's Phil Currie, even by his standards as one of the world's top dinosaur hunters. He's lead instructor on Dino 101. This summer, he had a museum named after ...
Archaeology
Dec 19, 2013
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Museum scientists are planning the next stage of a study to reveal the global destruction of plant life.
Ecology
Dec 19, 2013
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Get to know the Deep Space Network (DSN)-NASA's worldwide radio telescope array that communicates with spacecraft throughout the solar system.
Space Exploration
Dec 19, 2013
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The whalers, buccaneers, and other seafarers who plied the Pacific in centuries past brought rats, goats, and pigs along with them, seeding the islands they came across—intentionally and unintentionally—to establish food ...
Ecology
Dec 19, 2013
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(Phys.org) —In creating an entirely new way to compress data, a team of researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has drawn inspiration from physics and the arts. The result is a ...
Computer Sciences
Dec 19, 2013
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(Phys.org) —In the fable of the town and country mice, the country mouse visits his city-dwelling cousin to discover a world of opulence. In the early cosmos, billions of years ago, galaxies resided in the equivalent of ...
Astronomy
Dec 19, 2013
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A University of Queensland researcher has questioned the effectiveness of 'sex sells', a common rationale underlying many advertising campaigns.
Economics & Business
Dec 19, 2013
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