The so-called immune receptor Rx, conferring the resistance of some potato cultivars against potato virus X, does recognise the viruses in the cytoplasm, but – unexpectedly – its presence in the nucleus is also ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 4, 2011
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Humans are not the only species ruled by a circadian rhythm. Even simple organisms like moulds are governed by an inner clock.
Biochemistry
Jan 4, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Glasgow have created an ultra-fast 1,000-core computer processor.
Electronics & Semiconductors
Jan 4, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A spectacular section of the well-known Eagle Nebula has been targeted by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This collection of dazzling stars is called NGC 6611, an open star cluster that formed about ...
Astronomy
Jan 4, 2011
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A ten-year old girl from Canada has discovered a supernova, making her the youngest person ever to find a stellar explosion. The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada announced the discovery by Kathryn Aurora Gray of Fredericton, ...
Astronomy
Jan 4, 2011
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NEC Corporation announced today that it succeeded in the world's first simulation-based prediction of laser-induced photochemical reactions that can efficiently eject a hydrogen atom from a hydrogen chloride molecule trapped ...
Nanophysics
Jan 4, 2011
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New research by an international team of scholars shows early human colonization of Eastern Polynesia took place much faster and more recently than previously established.
Archaeology
Jan 4, 2011
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An international research team formed by physicists from Hitachi, the University of Cambridge and University of Nottingham in the UK, Charles University in the Germany, the Institute of Physics (ASCR), in the Czech Republic, ...
General Physics
Jan 4, 2011
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Professor Frank S. Bates and his research team at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis have discovered an unusual type of soft material that was conceived of over 50 years ago, but has never before been found in a plastic--although ...
Polymers
Jan 4, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The school dance committee is split; one group wants an "Alice in Wonderland" theme; the other insists on "Vampire Jamboree." Mathematics could have predicted it.
Mathematics
Jan 4, 2011
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