How x-rays in matter create genetoxic low-energy electrons

Researchers have investigated what x-rays in matter really do and identified a new mechanism of producing…

Mathematically optimizing traffic lights in road intersections

Traffic modeling has been of interest to mathematicians since the 1950s. Research in the area has…

China to protect areas of high ecological importance identified by researchers

Scientists have determined ecologically valuable areas within China. The country plans to protect these areas as…

Great Barrier Reef building coral under threat from poisonous seaweed

World-first research on the Great Barrier Reef has shown how 'weed-like' algae will kill vital coral…

Myth busted: No link between gigantic asteroid break-up, rise in biodiversity

Some 470 million years ago, during the middle part of the geological period known as the…

Nuclear Regulation: Safety is valued too low, research review shows

The benchmark used by the Office for Nuclear Regulation for judging how much should be spent…

Protein chaperone takes its job seriously

In a new study, researchers are learning more about how ribosome chaperones work, showing that one…

Flipping the switch on ammonia production

Chemists have published a different method, using enzymes derived from nature, that generates ammonia at room…

Supercomputing, experiment combine for first look at magnetism of real nanoparticle

Researchers working with magnetic nanoparticles approached computational scientists to help solve a unique problem: to model…

Brain Plasticity: How Adult-Born Neurons Get Wired-in

Does the brain create additional synapses from the cortical neurons to the new granule cells, or…