Low-calorie sweeteners (also referred to as alternative sweeteners, non-nutritive sweeteners, intense sweeteners, or sugar substitutes) are used in foods and…
An ambitious new study that includes Lisa Levin of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego describes the full chain of events by which ocean…
The hormone prolactin is probably best known for its role in stimulating milk production in mothers after giving birth. But prolactin also has an important…
Grape Seed Extract:Results from a study of 32 pre-hypertensive adult subjects showed that a patented grape seed extract may help to lower both systolic and…
Now, Cornell University researchers have developed a microfluidic water sensor within a fingertip-sized silicon chip that is a hundred times more sensitive…
Using 3-D computer models, University of Arkansas researchers have demonstrated the influence of hills on tornadoes. Their models revealed that the height of a…
The find suggests that the ancestors of chelicerates – spiders, scorpions and their kin – branched off from the family tree of other arthropods – including…
“This is more evidence that cardiovascular health leads to a healthy brain,” said study author Timothy M. Hughes, PhD, of the University of Pittsburgh.The…
A key new measurement of Mars’ atmosphere by NASA’s Curiosity rover provides the most definitive evidence yet of the origins of Mars meteorites while at the…
Published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases and available online, the findings show that fewer of today's teens have been exposed in their childhood to…
A team of researchers from Montreal has found that stroke patients living with Locked-In Syndrome (LIS) who cannot move, swallow or even breathe on their own,…
Since May 2012, ten Fraunhofer Institutes and numerous industrial, commercial and municipal partners have been working together to develop concepts for clean,…
A team of scientists around Prof. Theodor W. Hänsch and Dr. Nathalie Picqué at the Laser Spectroscopy Division of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics…
They have developed a new method to generate virus particles containing labeled viral DNA genomes. This allowed them to visualize, for the first time, single…
In the last decade the concept of urban and regional resilience has been much discussed and has been further developed in many areas. Today academics,…
According to the statistics, only 20% of the population in industrialised countries maintain that they have never experienced back pain. The majority of people…