Warmer summers brought on by climate change will cause more deaths in London and southeast…
Month: March 2014
Off-rift volcanoes explained
Rift valleys are large depressions formed by tectonic stretching forces. Volcanoes often occur in rift…
Leukaemia caused by chromosome catastrophe
Researchers have found that people born with a rare abnormality of their chromosomes have a…
Shifting evolution into reverse promises cheaper, greener way to make new drugs
By shifting evolution into reverse, it may be possible to use “green chemistry” to make…
Study on element could change ballgame on radioactive waste
Groundbreaking work by a team of chemists on a fringe element of the periodic table…
Drugs fail to reawaken dormant HIV infection
Scientists report that compounds they hoped would “wake up” dormant reservoirs of HIV inside immune…
Spintronics: Could diamonds be a computer’s best friend?
For the first time, physicists have demonstrated that information can flow through a diamond wire….
Space sunflower may help snap pictures of planets
A spacecraft that looks like a giant sunflower might one day be used to acquire…
NASA’s Spitzer Telescope brings 360-degree view of galaxy to our fingertips
Touring the Milky Way now is as easy as clicking a button with NASA’s new…
NASA orbiter finds new gully channel on Mars
A comparison of images taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on…