Month: June 2013

Butterflies are extremely sensitive to changes in temperature, and new research has revealed that when…

Detecting one individual biomolecule amongst millions of other neighboring molecules has been technically impossible until…

When carbon is emitted by human activities into the atmosphere it is generally thought that…

Many plants are self-fertilizing, meaning they act as both mother and father to their own…

Researchers have identified what they think may be a mechanism underlying the development of compulsive…

Delicious dimethyl sulphide. The microorganism Methanosarcina acetivorans lives off everything it can metabolize into methane….

Canada’s Mackenzie River basin — among the world’s most important major ecosystems — is poorly…

Helping to protect newborns and older patients against more severe effects of jaundice is the…

MRI scans of children who have had chemotherapy can detect early changes in their hearts.

Scientists have deciphered how a protein called Arc regulates the activity of neurons — providing…