Topic: Germany
LONDON (Reuters) - An international scientific team has identified for the first time a genetic risk factor associated with common migraines and say their research could open the way for new treatments to prevent migraine attacks. Researchers who looked at genetic data ...
Neutron star discovered by researchers using home computers to analyze massive dataOrdinary computers like those folks use to send e-mail or surf the Internet are being credited with finding a previously unknown neutron star. Home office computers in Ames, Iowa, and Mainz, ...
Swedish energy group Vattenfall said it had launched a major pilot project Thursday using algae to absorb greenhouse gas emissions from a coal-fired power plant in eastern Germany. The two-million-euro (2.6-million-dollar) trial run, which will continue until October 2011, in the depressed ...
Scientists lobbed a bombshell into the world of sub-atomic theory on Wednesday by reporting that a primary building block of the visible Universe, the proton, is smaller than previously thought. More precisely, revised measurements shave four percent off the particle's radius, according ...
European aerospace giant EADS is poised to unveil a "hybrid" aircraft which runs on algae fuel, a world first, its technical director said on Friday. The firm will present the machine at the Berlin Air Show (ILA) that runs from June 9 ...
European aerospace giant EADS is poised to unveil a "hybrid" helicopter that runs on algae fuel, a world first, its technical director said on Friday. The firm will present the machine at the Berlin air show (ILA) that runs from June 9 ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Neanderthals and modern humans interbred, probably when early modern humans first began to migrate out of Africa, according to a genetic study released on Thursday. People of European, Asian and Australasian origin all have Neanderthal DNA, but not Africans, ...
A German woman fearing that Earth would be sucked into oblivion in a black hole failed on Tuesday in her court attempt to halt the world's most powerful atom-smasher. The Constitutional Court in the western Germany city of Karlsruhe threw out the ...
Counting bacteria in our guts, scientists say microbes 'rule this planet including our body'The human gut is a virtual zoo, full of a wide variety of bacteria, a new study found. And scientists say that's a good thing. The first results of ...
Researchers on Sunday said they had identified more than a dozen genes that help modulate heart rate, a finding that one day may lead to smarter cardiac drugs. Three teams, working separately, netted the genes after comparing the DNA codes of tens ...