Cutting-edge simulations run at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) over a two-ye...
One of the most critical questions surrounding climate change is how it might affect the food supply for a growing global population. A new study by r...
An audio interview with Dr Daniel Ladley about the research is available here: https://soundcloud.com/university-of-leicester/how-do-hormones-affect-t...
Scientists have long been puzzled about what makes Mercury's surface so dark. The innermost planet reflects much less sunlight than the Moon, a bo...
A new study of gut bacteria in premature infants reveals the vast scope of the problem of antibiotic resistance and gives new insight into the extreme...
New light has been shed on the processes by which ocean water enters the solid Earth during continental breakup. Research led by geoscientists at the ...
Sometimes, a nematode worm just needs to take a nap. In fact, its life may depend on it. New research has identified a protein that promotes a sleep-l...
An amputee was able to feel smoothness and roughness in real-time with an artificial fingertip that was surgically connected to nerves in his upper ar...
Researchers from Boston College, US, have revealed the global spread of an ancient group of retroviruses that affected about 28 of 50 modern mammals&#...
Ichthyosaurs - shark-like marine reptiles from the time of dinosaurs - were driven to extinction by intense climate change and their own failure to ev...