Biochemists at Oregon State University have developed a new method to identify the "DNA-binding transcription factors" that help steer stem cells into forming the wide variety of cells that ultimately make up all the organs ...
Nov 20, 2006
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U.S. evolutionary scientists say they have found evolution as a process can occur during eons or within months as a population's needs change.
Nov 20, 2006
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Seismologists at the Nevada Seismological Laboratory have ranked the United States' most-earthquake-prone states and found Alaska is No. 1.
Earth Sciences
Nov 20, 2006
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The University at Buffalo team that developed the world's first transgenic butterfly now has developed an innovative tool that will allow scientists studying "non-model" organisms to test directly the function of certain ...
Nov 20, 2006
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Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have used NASA's most powerful supercomputer to run the largest simulation to date of the formation and evolution of the dark matter halo that envelopes the Milky Way ...
Astronomy
Nov 20, 2006
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Quantum dots are rapidly becoming biomedical researchers’ tool of choice for adding a fluorescent label to a wide variety of biomolecules. Now, thanks to work from a multi-institutional team of investigators, researchers ...
Bio & Medicine
Nov 20, 2006
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An international team led by scientists from the United States and New Zealand have observed, for the first time, the bizarre deep-sea communities living around methane seeps off New Zealand's east coast.
Earth Sciences
Nov 20, 2006
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What made Tampa Bay Tampa Bay? Geological oceanographer Al Hine and colleagues Beau Suthard and Stan Locker of the University of South Florida’s College of Marine Science explain the origins of Tampa Bay’s bottom, which ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 20, 2006
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Scientists using NASA's Swift satellite stumbled upon a rare sight, two supernovas side by side in one galaxy. Large galaxies typically play host to three supernovas per century.
Astronomy
Nov 20, 2006
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UMC, a leading global semiconductor foundry, today announced that it has successfully produced functional 45-nanometer SRAM chips that feature an impressive bit cell size of less than 0.25um2. The ICs, produced using UMC's ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Nov 20, 2006
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