First results from the analysis of eight 'hot Jupiter' exoplanets suggest that winds and clouds play an important role in the atmospheric make up of these exotic planets. Catherine Huitson of the University of Exeter will present the results at the National Astronomy Meeting in St Andrews onFriday...

As the Ashes series gets underway next week, a pair of brothers from Australia have been exploring the physics behind the spin of a cricket ball. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-07/iop...

A new study published today in the journal Gondwana Research, has revealed the past position of the Australian, Antarctic and Indian tectonic plates, demonstrating how they formed the supercontinent Gondwana 165 million years ago. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-07/rhu...

The increased risk of heart attack or stroke associated with many arthritis drugs may be avoidable, according to a new international study co-authored by researchers at Imperial College London. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-07/icl...

Today, an article published in Science in collaboration with the group of Manel Esteller, Director of Epigenetics and Cancer Biology Biomedical Research Institute, ICREA researcher and Professor of Genetics at the University of Barcelona, gives us an important clue to understanding this process....

Salk findings uncovers dynamic changes in the epigenome that occur during brain circuitry formation. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-07/si-...

An international group of astronomers that includes UC Santa Barbara astrophysicist Crystal Martin and former UCSB postdoctoral researcher Nicolas Bouché has spotted a distant galaxy hungrily snacking on nearby gas. The gas is seen to fall inward toward the galaxy, creating a flow that both fuels...

Researchers have for the first time created perfect one-dimensional molecular wires of which the electrical conductivity can almost entirely be suppressed by a weak magnetic field at room temperature. The underlying mechanism is possibly closely related to the biological compass used by some...

Los intervalos de tiempo en los que se emiten mensajes en Twitter dan pistas sobre si quien lo hace es un programa informático, una empresa o una persona, independientemente del contenido o el lenguaje del tuit. Así lo asegura un equipo de investigadores del Imperial College de Londres que ha...

Call it a bird's eye view of migration. Scientists have created a new animal tracking system using a big data approach. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/D...

Physical activity reorganizes the brain so that its response to stress is reduced and anxiety is less likely to interfere with normal brain function. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/a...

Scientists have discovered why long-term treatment with many common antibiotics can cause harmful side effects -- and they have uncovered two easy strategies that could help prevent these dangerous responses. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/H...

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The curtain has come down on a superstar of the satellite oceanography world that played the "Great Blue Way" of the world's ocean for 11-1/2 years. The successful joint NASA and Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) Jason-1 ocean altimetry satellite was decommissioned this week following the...

Scientists have identified the molecular signals that direct the formation of arteries during embryonic development. In so doing, they illustrate how even the most complex of biological systems can be directed by the most subtle shifts in molecular signaling. Fuente :...

Humans have been affecting their environment since the ancestors of Homo sapiens first walked upright, but never has their impact been more detrimental than in the 21st century. Human-driven environmental disturbances, such as increasing levels of reactive nitrogen and carbon dioxide, have multiple...

A catalog of great ape genetic diversity, the most comprehensive ever, elucidates the evolution and population histories of great apes from Africa and Indonesia. The resource will aid in conservation efforts to preserve natural genetic diversity in populations. Scientists and wildlife...

Researchers have discovered a role for ribosomal 5S RNA in the formation of a complex that regulates the stability of p53. Normally, p53 prevents healthy cells from becoming tumorigenic. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/E...

El estudio de la evolución de la resistencia al cólera a través de la historia puede ayudar a desarrollar nuevos tratamientos y vacunas contra esta enfermedad mortífera ||| Fuente : http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/materia/noticias/~3...

Thousands of sequences that control genes are active in the developing human limb and may have driven the evolution of the human hand and foot, a comparative genomics study has found. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/f...

A mere 25 years ago, noncoding RNAs were considered nothing more than "background noise" in the overall genomic landscape. Now, two new studies reveal that one of these tiny noncoding molecules -- microRNA-22 -- plays an outsized role in two types of cancer. Fuente :...

Por primera vez, se ha conseguido producir in vitro un fragmento tridimensional y vascularizado de hígado humano que, tras ser trasplantado en el cráneo y el abdomen de ratones, comienza a realizar funciones propias del órgano completo. Según los autores japoneses del estudio, en diez años podrán...

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Un equipo de investigadores españoles y belgas han analizado por primera vez la sensibilidad de la técnica denominada 'de emisión de fotoelectrones inducida por rayos-X de alta energía' en superficies de dióxido de silicio. Este material es esencial en el desarrollo y fabricación de diversos dispositivos microelectrónicos....

Un equipo internacional de expertos ha descubierto el papel del ARN ribosomal 5S en la formación de un complejo que regula la estabilidad del gen p53, que normalmente evita que las células sanas se conviertan en tumorales. Los resultados se han avanzado en la edición electrónica de la revista Cell Reports. Fuente :...

La Asociación Española de Bioempresas (ASEBIO) ha dado a conocer hoy su informe anual en el que se destaca que la cifra de negocio del sector biotecnológico pasó de suponer el 2,98% del PIB en 2008 al 7,15% en 2011. En ese mismo periodo, el empleo creció en las empresas del sector un 23,7%, hasta...