Month: April 2012

Researchers have discovered a gene for a new form of intellectual disability, as well as…

Engineers have found a novel method for “decorating” nanowires with chains of tiny particles to…

Unlike many of their rodent cousins, common dormice hibernate. Their life history strategies have now…

China’s economic growth will continue to be energy-intensive and highly polluting for the foreseeable future…

Many regard nuclear fusion as the main energy source of the future. Among others, the…

Our genes control many aspects of who we are — from the color of our…

In the future, optical fibers could connect all optical atomic clocks within Europe — a…

Researchers have created a portable, miniature microscope in the hope of reducing the time taken…

Now that hay fever season has started, sufferers are well aware of the effect of…

The genetics responsible for frequency-specific hearing loss have remained elusive until recently, when genetic loci…