The LICARA guidelines are geared towards small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from all branches of…
Month: December 2014
Re-discovered diaries shed new light on one of the world’s most studied woods
The re-discovered diaries and photographs of ecological pioneer Charles Elton have been digitised for the…
Sampling rivers for genes rather than organisms
Effective environmental management depends on a detailed knowledge of the distribution of species. But taxonomists…
Nighttime gout attack risk more than two times higher than in the daytime
Novel research reveals that the risk of acute gout attacks is more than two times…
New way to plug ‘leaky’ light cavities demonstrated
Engineers have demonstrated a new and more efficient way to trap light, using a phenomenon…
New ‘high-entropy’ alloy is as light as aluminum, as strong as titanium alloys
Researchers have developed a new ‘high-entropy’ metal alloy that has a higher strength-to-weight ratio than…
Thyroid hormones reduce animal cardiac arrhythmias
Rats that received thyroid hormones had a reduced risk for dangerous heart arrhythmias following a…
New way to turn genes on discovered
Using a gene-editing system originally developed to delete specific genes, researchers have now shown that…
Scientists estimate total weight of plastic floating in world’s oceans: Nearly 269,000 tons of plastic pollution floating in the ocean
Nearly 269,000 tons of plastic pollution may be floating in the world’s oceans, according to…
Oldest horned dinosaur species in North America found in Montana: Hooked beak, sharply pointed cheeks distinguishes neoceratopsian species
Scientists have named the first definite horned dinosaur species from the Early Cretaceous in North…