Jun 14, 2011
Scientists from SEI help launch major climate study
Fast action on pollutants such as black carbon, ground level ozone and methane may help limit near term global temperature rise and significantly incr...
Jun 13, 2011
Life history may affect mutation rates in males more than in females
Scientists at Penn State have used large-scale DNA sequencing data to investigate, for the first time, a longstanding evolutionary assumption: that DN...
Jun 13, 2011
The 2011 International Symposium on Functional Polymers and Nanomedicine Held in Hangzhou
From May 16 to 18, the 2011 International Symposium on Functional Polymers and Nanomedicine was held in Hangzhou. The Symposium was organized by Cente...
Jun 10, 2011
The stuff of life hitched ride to Earth on asteroid
Detailed analysis of the most pristine meteorite ever recovered shows that the composition of the organic compounds it carried changed during the earl...
Jun 09, 2011
Postpartum depression study shows gene behavior differs by environment
A recently released paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), "The Role of Mother's Genes and Environment in Postpartum Dep...
Jun 09, 2011
End native versus alien wars: Expert
It is time to drop the alien versus native species dichotomy in conservation, according to a group of eminent scientists concerned with the restoratio...
Jun 09, 2011
Keeping score helps asthma sufferers breathe a sigh of relief
Seven per cent of adults and 14 per cent of Canadian children have a hard time breathing because of asthma. Brian Rowe, in the Faculty of Medicine &am...
Jun 09, 2011
Adjustable valves gave ancient plants the edge
Controlling water loss is an important ability for modern land plants as it helps them thrive in changing environments. New research from the Universi...
Jun 09, 2011
Physicists hit on mathematical description of superfluid dynamics
It has been 100 years since the discovery of superconductivity, a state achieved when mercury was cooled, with the help of liquid helium, to nearly th...
