A vital mechanism for photosynthesis arose before the oxygenation of Earth

March 11th, 2014 08:32 AM | Biochemistry | Comments Off
A vital mechanism for photosynthesis arose before the oxygenation of Earth
An unexpected finding reveals that a regulatory process that activates photosynthesis in plants at dawn probably arose in ancient microbes 2,500 million years ago, much until oxygen came to be available for the life of the Earth. This surprising discovery ...
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Improvements in the use of solar energy by infrared satellite

March 8th, 2014 07:21 AM | Engineering | Comments Off
Improvements in the use of solar energy by infrared satellite
A new technological approach to the exploitation of solar energy via infrared could generate electricity with greater efficiency. The design conceived by a team of researchers could improve efficiency through the use of sunlight to heat a special material, whose infrared ...
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Smoking can cause physical changes in the brains of adolescent smokers

March 7th, 2014 10:03 AM | Health | Comments Off
Smoking can cause physical changes in the brains of adolescent smokers
It is well known that smoking causes numerous health problems, but now a new study about the effects of smoking in teenagers, revealed that tobacco can cause physical changes in your brain, which, at that age, still is being developed, ...
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Send your experiment to space

March 4th, 2014 06:16 AM | Space | Comments Off
Send your experiment to space
The European Space Agency Announces the opportunity for new experiments in microgravity to 400 kilometers above the surface of our planet, in the laboratories of the international space station. It is usually necessary to play with the variables to test a ...
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Offshore wind farms could restrain hurricanes before arrival to the mainland

March 3rd, 2014 10:26 AM | Engineering | Comments Off
Offshore wind farms could restrain hurricanes before arrival to the mainland
An investigation indicates that wind farms marine with thousands of wind turbines located on coasts left homeless by hurricanes could have restrained the force of three hurricanes that caused serious damage. This protective action would have significantly reduced the winds ...
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Discover the possible origin of cancer metastases

March 2nd, 2014 06:04 AM | Biochemistry | Comments Off
Discover the possible origin of cancer metastases
The cancer research increasingly beyond. We can already control many of them and we even have some hope of cure, although current methods (chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery, etc.) are not as comfortable as we would like, but they are there. ...
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Scientists discover key factor to promote the transformation of adult cells into cells of other types

March 1st, 2014 06:51 AM | Biology | Comments Off
Scientists discover key factor to promote the transformation of adult cells into cells of other types
A fundamental axiom of biology has been that the cell fate is "a one-way street". Once a cell develops into muscle, epithelial or blood, it is still always muscle, epithelial, or blood type. That belief was weakened in the past ...
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Find out how a natural nanomotor works

February 27th, 2014 07:44 AM | Biology | Comments Off
Find out how a natural nanomotor works
Our cells produce thousands of proteins, but more than one third of these proteins can only perform their function after you migrate towards the outside of the cell. Although it is known that migration of proteins happens with the help ...
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New ideas to change your neurons

February 26th, 2014 10:02 AM | Health | Comments Off
New ideas to change your neurons
New ideas, learning throughout our lives and that creativity benefits us in many areas of our lives is obvious. Apparently these activities shape our brains for good has also sensed in many scientific papers. But the specific molecular changes that ...
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Dramatic improvement of the conversion of heat into electricity

February 25th, 2014 04:26 AM | Engineering | Comments Off
Dramatic improvement of the conversion of heat into electricity
It has been to find a way to dramatically improve thermoelectric materials, a finding that could lead one day to the development of better solar panels, refrigeration products with greater energy efficiency, and even the creation of new devices capable ...
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