Queen's University professor Adam Chippindale (Biology) and PhD candidate Christopher Kimber appear to have revealed an anomaly in the evolutionary theory of aging.
Plants & Animals
Nov 8, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Most earthquakes erupt suddenly from faults near Earth's surface, and the big ones can topple cities. But miles below, rocks heated to the consistency of wax moving over thousands to millions of years may be ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 8, 2013
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(Phys.org) —With an eye toward maximizing isoprene production in bacteria, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Washington State University sought to understand isoprene regulation in Bacillus subtilis, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 8, 2013
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(Phys.org) —The three massive panels protecting a test version of NASA's Orion multipurpose crew vehicle successfully fell away from the spacecraft Wednesday in a test of a system that will protect Orion during its first ...
Space Exploration
Nov 8, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Predictive models of biogeochemical interactions in soils are more accurate and scalable if they consider the reaction chemistry that occurs in distinct soil pore structures, or domains, according to a trio ...
Materials Science
Nov 8, 2013
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It's Friday night, you're exhausted after a long week in the office. You're not going to leave the house so you could either watch TV or spend a few hours catching up on your social networks. But how about doing both? Thanks ...
Other
Nov 8, 2013
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TDK Corporation presents a new series of common-mode chokes for automotive Ethernet that features the world's best common-mode noise suppression. Measuring in with a footprint of 4.5 mm x 3.2 mm and an insertion height of ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Nov 8, 2013
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TDK Corporation presents a new series of EPCOS multilayer varistors of the CeraDiode family, which includes the most compact, flattest and most rugged varistor for the ESD protection of mobile equipment. It has a footprint ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Nov 8, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Weeds, those unwanted, unloved and annoying invasive plants that farmers and gardeners hate amid their plantings, are expanding to northern latitudes, thanks to rising temperatures.
Ecology
Nov 8, 2013
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The EU project EUROCELL ('EU market development of ModCell: a prefabricated eco-building system utilising renewable materials') is paving the way to using straw bale as a building material, employing a method pioneered at ...
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 8, 2013
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