With the aid of a straightforward experiment, researchers have provided some clues to one of biology's most complex questions: how ancient organic molecules came together to form the basis of life.
Specifically, this study, appearing online this week in JBC, demonstrated how ancient RNA joined together to reach a biologically relevant length.
ARNHEM, The Netherlands, December 8 /PRNewswire/ -- ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international consultancy, design and engineering company, announced today that it has one a large remediation contract in Milan, Italy. The contract has a size of EUR 8 million for the remediation of a stretch of land that is being cleaned up for new building development. ARCADIS will undertake the remediation on behalf of a consortium of companies that is developing the site. It is the first large contract in Italy since ARCADIS acquired an Italian environmental company named SET (now ARCADIS SET) as recent as July of this year. No further financial details were given.
DUBLIN and NEWCASTLE, England, December 8 /PRNewswire/ --
- Marketing Partner UCB Expects to Receive Completed Price and Reimbursement Approval for Tetrabenazine in H1 2009
DUBLIN and NEWCASTLE, England, December 8 /PRNewswire/ --
- Exclusive Distribution Rights Granted in Finland (MediFront) and Taiwan (Giddi Pharma); Distribution Contracts Renewed in Australia and New Zealand
DALLAS, December 8 /PRNewswire/ --
- Finland's EAC migration to meet European Union's June 2009 deadline
Building off of the momentum of September's impressive showing at the ePassports EAC Conformity Interoperability Tests, Entrust, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENTU) advances its role as the world's ePassport leader by being selected to supply the CA software for Finland's migration to advanced second-generation ePassports based on the Extended Access Control (EAC) standard.
LONDON, December 8 /PRNewswire/ -- BIS Ltd., a provider of hosting and global connectivity solutions for businesses and carriers, today announced that the facility purchased earlier this year is now fully operational and open for Business. A 26 week build and upgrade programme was completed on time and under budget. This included the upgrade of the BIS core network to 10Gig to facilitate rapid customer connections to other BIS data centres.
Have you ever wondered why it seems like the littlest things make people angry? University of Minnesota marketing professor Vladas Griskevicius says he can explain in three words why people may be inclined to make a mountain out of molehill: aggression, status and sex. He makes an unfortunate correlation-causation jump to the colloquial term 'evolution' too, but let's forget that for a moment, because we'd never get any articles written if we stopped every time a non-biologist calls something Evolution.
A key challenge of nanotechnology research is investigating how different materials behave at lengths of merely one-billionth of a meter. When shrunk to such tiny sizes, many everyday materials exhibit interesting and potentially beneficial new properties.
Magnetic behavior is one such phenomenon that can change significantly depending on the size of the material. However, the sheer challenge of observing the magnetic properties of nanoscale material has impeded further study of the topic.
Bling, foreclosures, rising credit card debt, bank and auto bailouts, upside down mortgages and perhaps a mid-life crisis new Corvette---all symptoms of compulsive overspending. University of Michigan researcher Daniel Kruger says the answer lies in evolution and mating. He theorizes that men overspend to attract mates.
It all boils down, as it has for hundreds of thousands of years, to making babies.
Kruger, an assistant research scientist in the School of Public Health, tested his hypothesis in a community sample of adults aged 18-45 and found that the degree of financial consumption was directly related to future mating intentions and past mating success for men but not for women.
In the rainforests of equatorial Asia, a link between drought and deforestation is fueling global warming, finds an international study that includes a UC Irvine scientist.
The study, analyzing six years of climate and fire observations from satellites, shows that in dry years, the practice of using fire to clear forests and remove organic soil increases substantially, releasing huge amounts of climate-warming carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
In 2006, the climate on the fast-developing islands of Borneo and Sumatra and in New Guinea and other parts of equatorial Asia was three times drier than in 2000, but carbon emissions from deforestation were 30 times greater – exceeding emissions from fossil fuel burning.
When it comes to the world of the very, very small —
nanotechnology — we may have a big problem: Nano and its capacity to alter the fundamentals of nature could be failing the moral litmus test of religion.
In a report published today in
Nature Nanotechnology, survey results reveal some sharp contrasts in the perception that nanotechnology is morally acceptable. Those views, according to the report, correlate directly with aggregate levels of religious views in each country surveyed.
