Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have identified a new technique for cleansing contaminated water and potentially purifying hydrogen for use in fuel cells,…

Plant scientists have known for some time that genes from the maternal plant control seed development, but they have not known quite how. Scientists at the University of Oxford have paved the way…

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed an improved version of a real-time magnetic microscopy system that converts evidence of tampering on magnetic audio and video tapes…

A NASA researcher has developed a new method to anticipate food shortages brought on by drought. Molly Brown of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and her colleagues created a…

Researchers have identified a gene-regulating protein in the brains of mice that triggers the animals' ability to cope with the "behavioral despair" caused by inescapable stress. They said their…

Primetime crime drama meets reality in forensic research taking place at the Midwest Forensics Resource Center at Iowa State University. Ames Laboratory scientists are using the new Direct Analysis…

A team of led by Norwich BioScience Institutes Professor Nick Harberd have discovered how plants evolved the ability to adapt to changes in climate and environment. Plants adapt their growth,…

Organic farming can yield up to three times as much food as conventional farming on the same amount of land---according to new findings which refute the long-standing assumption that organic farming…

In the first scientific publication from The Genographic Project, a five-year effort to understand the human journey, researchers report their experience of genotyping human mitochondrial DNA during…

During flowering four different types of floral organs need to be formed: Sepals, which protect the inner organs; The frequently ornamental petals; Stamens, which produce pollen and; The carpels…