Scientists led by experts at Durham University have discovered a natural mechanism in plants that could stimulate their growth even under stress and potentially lead to better crop yields. Plants naturally slow their growth or even stop ...
Tags: plants, better crop yields, plants growth, stimulate, Gibberellin
Understanding collective behavior of ultra-cold quantum gases is of great interest since it is intimately related to many encountered systems in nature such as human behavior, swarms of birds, traffic jam, sand dunes, neutron stars, ...
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But in making the most precise measurements ever of the shape of electrons, a team of Harvard and Yale scientists, led by Harvard's Gerald Gabrielse, the George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics, John Doyle, professor of physics, and ...
Tags: Higgs boson, shape of electrons, Standard Model, theory of nature
Most clinical studies of vitamins are "flawed by poor methodology", review finds Most large clinical trials of vitamin supplements, including those that have concluded supplements are of no value or even harmful, have a “flawed ...
Tags: vitamin supplements, flawed methodology, useless, micronutrients
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published a new GATEWAY report entitled Pedestrian Friendly Outdoor Lighting. Recognizing that pedestrian lighting has different criteria for success than street and area lighting, GATEWAY followed ...
Tags: DOE, outdoor lighting, GATEWAY Report, pedestrian lighting
IBM faces a puzzle that might give even the world's greatest detective pause: How to grow its "Jeopardy"-conquering Watson supercomputer into a $10-billion business within a decade. The company hopes to boost Watson's profit-making ...
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A new, preliminary treatment involving triple-gene therapy appears safe and effective in helping to control motor function in Parkinson's disease patients, according to new research. The therapy, called ProSavin, works by reprogramming ...
Certain regions in adult brains still have a "childlike" ability to create new connections that can help people learn new skills and form new memories as they age, according to a new study. Researchers compared gene activity levels in ...
Tags: gene activity levels, brain regions, new connections between brain cells
Throwing your arms up in the air, raising your head, flashing a smile: your body language when you win at sports is an instinctive reaction meant to indicate dominance over your opponent, a new study finds. These triumphal displays are ...
Tags: body language, triumphal displays, signify dominance, establish hierarchy
A new study seeks to determine how one parasitic species can give rise to two drastically different outcomes in its host: The human body louse (Pediculus humanus) can transmit dangerous bacterial infections to humans, while the human head ...
Producing brightly speckled red and green snapshots of many different tissues, Johns Hopkins researchers have color-coded cells in female mice to display which of their two X chromosomes has been made inactive, or “silenced.” ...
Tags: X chromosomes, Johns Hopkins, color-coded cells, genetic diversity
Scientists have made an important advance in understanding how a subset of bacterial cells escape being killed by many antibiotics. Cells become "persisters" by entering a state in which they stop replicating and are able to tolerate ...
Tags: bacterial cells, antibiotics, antibiotic resistance, persister cells
A new medical device has been developed that will provide phlebotomists and clinicians with a technology to enable blood drawing accuracy at first stick.This is particularly important considering the diverse patient demographic each with ...
Tags: automated venipuncture medical device, phlebotomy procedure
Tobacco smoking by pregnant women has long been viewed as a public health risk because of smoking's adverse effects on the development of a fetus. Smoking during pregnancy is linked to numerous negative outcomes, including low birth ...
Tags: smoking, pregnant women, nicotine addiction, smoking during pregnancy
A city known for its Gordian roundabouts and pedestrian-defeating roads is testing a clean new form of public transit: electric buses charged via induction. The borough of Milton Keynes, in the UK, will begin testing eight electric buses ...