News tagged with organization science

Obstacles no barrier to higher speeds for worms, researchers find

Obstacles in an organism's path can help it to move faster, not slower, researchers from New York University's Applied Math Lab at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences have found through a series ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Chemists reveal how algae delete unwanted 'competitors'

Every morning when the sun comes up, the ocean ground is radically cleaned. As soon as the first rays of sunlight find their way into the water, the microalgae "Nitzschia cf pellucida" start their deadly 'morning ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Route parasite takes to infect fish uncovered

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Aberdeen have made a discovery which could ultimately help to develop a control for a major cause of infection in farmed fish.

Biology / Ecology

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New study sheds light on evolutionary origin of oxygen-based cellular respiration

Researchers at the RIKEN SPring-8 Center in Harima, Japan, have clarified the crystal structure of quinol dependent nitric oxide reductase (qNOR), a bacterial enzyme that offers clues on the origins of our ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 22, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ecologists gain insight into the likely consequences of global warming

A new insight into the impact that warmer temperatures could have across the world has been uncovered by scientists at Queen Mary, University of London.

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

India has Red Planet Fever

Mars fever has gripped India. In a recent report from the Planetary Science and Exploration conference that was held in December 2011, scientists from the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) are making ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 5

Carnivorous plant traps worms with sticky leaves

Plants eat the darndest things. Scientists have discovered a small flowering plant living in the sandy soils of Brazil that traps nematodes, or roundworms, with sticky underground leaves -- and gobbles them ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Swiss chemists emulate cheese rind to create self-cleaning surface material

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cheese lovers know that the milky white outer coating of Camembert cheese not only serves to offer a tart offset to the pungent inner cheese, but also protects it until ready to be eaten, ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Decoding corn defenses for improved pest resistance

(PhysOrg.com) -- A clearer picture of corn's biochemical responses to insect and fungal attacks is emerging, thanks to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) studies in Gainesville, Fla.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NY bill would require bachelor's degrees for RNs

(AP) -- New registered nurses would have to earn bachelor's degrees within 10 years to keep working in New York under a bill lawmakers are considering as part of a national push to raise educational standards for nurses, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study details how dengue infection hits harder the second time around

One of the most vexing challenges in the battle against dengue virus, a mosquito-borne virus responsible for 50-100 million infections every year, is that getting infected once can put people at greater risk ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Air pollution levels from Deepwater Horizon spill similar to large urban area

(PhysOrg.com) -- The amount of air pollutants in the atmospheric plume generated by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill was similar to a large city according to a new NOAA-led study published today in a special ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers find more evidence of quantum processes at work in photosynthesis

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers working together from the University of Chicago and Washington University in St. Louis, have found more evidence that suggests quantum effects are at play as plants use energy from the sun to ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 9 | with audio podcast report

SAM I am

The Mars Science Laboratory is on its way to the red planet, and its rover Curiosity should touch down next summer. If the mission hits paydirt and comes across organic material, then one instrument in particular ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers engineer blood stem cells to fight melanoma

Researchers from UCLA's cancer and stem cell centers have demonstrated for the first time that blood stem cells can be engineered to create cancer-killing T-cells that seek out and attack a human melanoma. The researchers ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast