Storms generate heavy swell, putting ports at risk; this problem is compounded by rising sea level caused by climate change. A team of scientists analysed the impact of this phenomenon in Catalonia, concluding that the number ...
Environment
Oct 5, 2016
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Many serious diseases such as malaria or AIDS present a major challenge for medicine because the causative pathogens use the same strategy although they are completely different: By camouflaging themselves they evade the ...
Biotechnology
Oct 5, 2016
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The one millimetre long roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans has been used as a model organism in scientific research, and has therefore been extensively examined. A research group at Uppsala University has now demonstrated that ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 5, 2016
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Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder in the developed world, with around 60,000 people diagnosed in the U.S. each year.
Engineering
Oct 5, 2016
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The sign of a truly great scientific theory is by the outcomes it predicts when you run experiments or perform observations. And one of the greatest theories ever proposed was the concept of Relativity, described by Albert ...
Astronomy
Oct 5, 2016
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We may be living in the golden age of Mars exploration. With multiple orbiters around Mars and two functioning rovers on the surface of the red planet, our knowledge of Mars is growing at an unprecedented rate. But it hasn't ...
Space Exploration
Oct 5, 2016
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Marketers invest countless resources to design the perfect visual logo for their brand, believing that consumers apply a logo's meaning to its accompanying brand.
Social Sciences
Oct 5, 2016
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NASA tested new "eyes" for its next Mars rover mission on a rocket built by Masten Space Systems in Mojave, California, thanks in part to NASA's Flight Opportunities Program, or FOP.
Space Exploration
Oct 5, 2016
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Experts are hoping to stop the UK's favourite fruit, the banana, from disappearing from our shops.
Biotechnology
Oct 5, 2016
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Beneath the surface of rivers and streams, aquatic plants sway with the current, playing an unseen but vital role in the life of the waterway. Through a new series of experiments that model these underwater undulations, researchers ...
Soft Matter
Oct 5, 2016
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