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In a changing climate, erratic rainfall poses growing threat to rural poor, n...

STOCKHOLM (6 September 2010)?Against a backdrop of extreme weather wreaking havoc around the world, a new report warns that increasingly erratic rainfall related to climate change will pose a major threat to food security and economic growth, especi...

Fears of a decline in bee pollination confirmed

TORONTO, ON - Widespread reports of a decline in the population of bees and other flower-visiting animals have aroused fear and speculation that pollination is also likely on the decline. A recent University of Toront...

Talented bacteria make food poisoning unpredictable

While we are often exposed to bacteria in our food which could cause food poisoning, we don't always become ill - why should this be so? Professor Colin Hill who is presenting his work at the Society for General Microbiology's autumn meeting in No...

DNA fingerprinting pioneer discovers role of key genetic catalyst for human d...

One of the key drivers of human evolution and diversity, accounting for changes that occur between different generations of people, is explained by new research published today (Sept 5) by world-renowned scientist Pro...

?Slow light? on a chip holds promise for optical communications

SANTA CRUZ, CA--A tiny optical device built into a silicon chip has achieved the slowest light propagation on a chip to date, reducing the speed of light by a factor of 1,200 in a study reported in Nature Photonics (published online September 5 and ...

MIT researchers create new self-assembling photovoltaic technology that repai...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Plants are good at doing what scientists and engineers have been struggling to do for decades: converting sunlight into stored energy, and doing so reliably day after day, year after year. Now som...

SDSC?s CAIDA Internet research group part of new NSF awards

A research project involving the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), based at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, has been selected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of a series of awards aimed ...

Moonstruck primates: Owl monkeys need moonlight as much as a biological clock...

PHILADELPHIA ?- An international collaboration led by a University of Pennsylvania anthropologist has shown that environmental factors, like temperature and light, play as much of a role in the activity of traditiona...

Death of the "doughnut"

Something has been eating Charlie Kerfoot's doughnut, and all fingers point to a European mollusk about the size of a fat lima bean. No one knew about the doughnut in southern Lake Michigan, much less the mollusk...

For some women, preventive mastectomies pay off

SAN ANTONIO, TX (Sept. 3) ? A long-term study of women with a genetic predisposition for breast or ovarian cancer showed that those who elected major preventive surgeries had a significantly reduced risk of those cancers. The study, published Sept...

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