The devastating effects of drought are expected to increase in severity and frequency in the coming years. To protect the world's food supply, scientists turn to genetic engineering. Now, a team of researchers has discovered ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 12, 2018
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Large amounts of the potent greenhouse gas methane are being released from an Icelandic glacier, scientists have discovered.
Environment
Nov 20, 2018
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A new technique to study intact parts of cell membranes could revolutionise studies of cancer, metabolic and heart diseases.
Biochemistry
Nov 16, 2018
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Political humorist Mark Russel once joked, "The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage."
Space Exploration
Oct 4, 2018
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A University of North Texas professor and one of his graduate students have spent the last nine years making meth, fentanyl and PCP in a lab.
Analytical Chemistry
Aug 13, 2018
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Our Sun's beginnings are a mystery. It burst into being 4.6 billion years ago, about 50 million years before the Earth formed. Since the Sun is older than the Earth, it's hard to find physical objects that were around in ...
Astronomy
Jul 30, 2018
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A team of researchers at the University of Glasgow has developed a mass spectrometry technique to identify forged manuscripts. In their paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, the group describes their technique ...
Every cell in the body contains thousands of different protein molecules and they can change this composition whenever they are induced to perform a particular task or convert into a different cell type. Understanding how ...
Biochemistry
Jun 15, 2018
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An international team of scientists has created a tiny chemistry lab for a rover that will drill beneath the Martian surface looking for signs of past or present life. The toaster oven-sized lab, called the Mars Organic Molecule ...
Space Exploration
May 24, 2018
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Last year Empa's inorganic analytics lab was granted the status of "Reference Laboratory" within the scope of the ProSUM project, funded by the EU. Fine-grained samples of shredder waste from scrapped cars, e-waste or mine ...
Other
Apr 26, 2018
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