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That makes it the first Asian country to achieve the feat and the only country to do so on a first attempt ...

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Using a songbird as a model, scientists have described a brain pathway that replaces cells that have been lost naturally and not because of injury. If scientists can further tap into the process, it might lead to ways to encourage replacement of cells in human brains that have lost neurons naturally because of aging or Alzheimer's disease. ...

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Imagine going to the hospital with one disease and coming home with something much worse, or not coming home at all. With the emergence and spread of antibiotic-resistance pathogens, healthcare-associated infections have become a serious threat. On any given day about one in 25 hospital patients has at least one such infection and as many as one in nine die as a result. Microbiologists, for the first...

MicroRNA isoforms show population-specific and gender-specific signatures -– a finding that could affect how researchers view and study microRNAs. The team's findings have several implications: For researchers they suggest that the assays currently in the market do not necessarily capture the variant that is prevalent in the cells with which a researcher works. For patients, the findings represent...

Scientists have scoured cow rumens and termite guts for microbes that can efficiently break down plant cell walls for the production of next-generation biofuels, but some of the best microbial candidates actually may reside in the human lower intestine, researchers report. ...

A report released on Wednesday shows how Australia can decarbonise its economy while maintaining economic prosperity....

A US $8-billion green energy initiative would see wind power generated electricity in Wyoming consumed in Los Angeles and also involve 'cavern battery' energy storage....

Researchers from the University of Alberta have developed a solar energy-driven technique for removing dangerous contaminants from oil sands tailings, the toxic liquid remains of shale oil production....

REC Group has announced its Peak Energy solar panels were used for the largest commercial rooftop solar power system in the Midwestern United States....

South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill announced on Tuesday the State Government will boost its Renewable Energy Target to 50 percent by 2025....

It probably says a lot when a foundation run by one of the world's richest oil families starts divesting from fossil fuel in order to invest in renewable energy....

Most organisms, including humans, have parasitic DNA fragments called 'jumping genes' that insert themselves into DNA molecules, disrupting genetic instructions in the process. And that phenomenon can result in age-related diseases such as cancer. But researchers now report that the 'jumping genes' in mice become active as the mice age when a multi-function protein stops keeping them in check in order...

Keys at your fingertips, but the technology isn't there yet. Credit: Rachmaninoff , CC BY-SA By Andrew Smith , The Open University How can we ensure that someone is who they say they are? How can be sure that the person in our system, both digitally speaking or physically in front of us, is who whom they claim to be? read more ...

Imagine being able to go from the hottest of hots to the coldest of colds, and endure both extreme droughts, where 97% of your body water is gone, and airless vacuums such as space. The African midge,  Polypedilum vanderplanki , can do all that and an international team deciphered the genetic mechanism that makes it invulnerable to these harsh conditions. The midge is capable of anhydrobiosis,...

"Nobody understands the cloud," shouts a character in a recent comedy about a couple trying to remove a private video from the Internet.  In reality, the cloud is completely understandable, and it's one of few areas in climate where the emissions costs are also. And because it is quantifiable it can benefit from combinatorial optimization. the famous rucksack problem where a traveler has to try...

There is a link between our brain structure and our tolerance of risk, find economists who say they have found the first stable 'biomarker' for financial risk-attitudes. Does that mean there is a causal link between brain structure and behavior? Neuroscientists and psychologists tend to fall into that trap but the scholars in the Journal of Neuroscience avoid that trap. Dr Agnieszka Tymula, an economist...

Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease with symptoms which include the formation of red inflamed lesions that appear on the skin, vary from mild to severe. It affects around 125 million people worldwide. A new paper has found different types of dendritic cells in human skin have assorted functions in the early and more advanced stages of psoriasis. The scientists suggest that new strategies to regulate...