Research

06/06/2016 - 18:54

When a bacterium comes under attack it produces a piece of genetic material that matches the genetic sequence of the invading virus. This... →

02/06/2016 - 12:24

Sixth sense? Most Americans believe in the supernatural. In fact, one survey found that almost one-third of people believe in extrasensory... →

28/05/2016 - 13:17

“We focused on SLC6A4, which encodes the serotonin transporter, because we already know a good deal about the importance of this gene and... →

23/05/2016 - 12:47

“There have been claims that [genetically engineered] crops have had adverse effects on human health,” the report says. “Sweeping... →

18/05/2016 - 13:19

1) A Particle Accelerator Disaster By accidentally unleashing exotic forms of matter from particle accelerators, we run the risk of... →

13/05/2016 - 17:51

Nevertheless, numerous lines of research, particularly on athletes, have given us compelling insights into the physiological and... →

08/05/2016 - 12:11

The area where genomics-driven innovations have attracted the most attention is health. Rapid progress toward truly “personalized medicine... →

03/05/2016 - 10:54

This contrasts with the ideas some had about the conditions when researchers were likely to turn to Sci-Hub instead of ordinary legal... →

28/04/2016 - 17:16

Today, no great Western nation has a birthrate that will prevent the extinction of its native-born. By century’s end, other peoples and... →

22/04/2016 - 15:28

One, somewhat humbling, explanation is that we are all “cognitive misers” – to save time and energy, our brains use intuition rather than... →

18/04/2016 - 12:12

"It is not the number of people on the planet that is the issue – but the number of consumers and the scale and nature of their consumption... →

06/04/2016 - 15:57

"That's the $64,000 question," says Jeffrey Schwartz at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, US. The problem arguably begins with... →

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