Home prices in Britain fell 2.5 percent in April, Nationwide, the country’s largest building society said Friday.
Prices have fallen seven consecutive months and are now 4.4 percent below a year ago.
Home prices in Britain peaked in October at an average price of $367,7620, the report said.
Howard Archer, an economist at Global Insight, said April’s figures [...]
An older person’s likelihood of entering a nursing home or other long-term care facility is particularly high immediately after the death of a spouse, new research indicates.
There could be various reasons for this, Elina Nihtila, of the department of sociology at the University of Helsinki, Finland, who led the research, told Reuters Health.
“It may be [...]
Sylvia Cremer is from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and the University of Regensburg in Germany. Working with colleagues from these institutes and the University of Keele in the UK, she looked at colonies of ants in 14 locations around Europe. Using a combination of genetic, chemical and behavioural analyses, the researchers investigated the [...]
A team of K-State researchers found that by using technology to silence a gene in the salivary glands of pea aphids, the insect%26rsquo;s lifespan was cut by more than 50 percent.
%26ldquo;What we found is that when we silenced the most abundant transcript (gene), the aphids died in a few days,%26rdquo; said K-State professor of entomology [...]
Bt-resistant populations of bollworm, Helicoverpa zea, were found in more than a dozen crop fields in Mississippi and Arkansas between 2003 and 2006.
What we’re seeing is evolution in action, said lead researcher Bruce Tabashnik. This is the first documented case of field-evolved resistance to a Bt crop.
Bt crops are so named because they have been [...]
According to the findings of a new study, published in the January issue of Academic Emergency Medicine, CO also causes direct damage to the heart muscle, separate from the effects of oxygen deprivation, which reduces the heart’s pumping capacity and permanently impairs cardiac function.
These findings suggest that heart damage caused by carbon monoxide may have [...]
This research has important implications for consumer welfare, explain Jiewen Hong and Angela Y. Lee (both of Northwestern University). While self-help remedies are saturating the market, resisting temptations remains a strenuous process and a constant struggle for many people. The data reported in this research offer an important step toward understanding self-control and highlight the [...]
Costa brings the branch close to his eye. Yes, he says, with a boyish grin, this is a fungus success story.
For some, a fungus success story means nothing is growing at the back of their refrigerator. But for Costa, research assistant professor of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont, and Grassano, his [...]
Despite mating being a risky business for females %26ndash; not least with the threat of injury, sexually transmitted diseases and vulnerability to predators - polyandry (females taking multiple mates) is widespread in the animal kingdom.
Dr Stephen Cornell (Leeds) and Dr Tom Tregenza (Exeter) have shown that polyandry may have evolved as a survival technique [...]
UC Irvine professor Dr. Alan G. Barbour and researchers Jianmin Zhong and Algimantas Jasinskas found that certain antibiotics reduced the number of bacteria in ticks, and this was associated with retarded growth in immature ticks and reduce reproduction by adult females.
%26ldquo;The significance is that control of ticks as vectors of disease and as pests for [...]