In fact, a new study by this BYU professor concludes that improvements in U.S. air quality since 1990 have sparked a 35 percent reduction in deaths and…
“In the areas we studied in Bureau County with small wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), it was much cheaper to do pollution control by installing just a few…
With this new function, Mitofusin 2 becomes a viable target to intervene in diseases such as neurodegeneration and cancer.Each cell in an organism has a sensor…
“Human activity has very different effects on the temperature of the upper and lower atmosphere, and a very different fingerprint from purely natural…
NASA's Global Hawk 871 departed from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va. today, Sept. 17, at 10 a.m. EDT from Runway 04. This marked the…
The recently concluded EU project of the 7th European Framework Program „Biomarkers of aging“/MARK-AGE determined the most relevant physiological factors of…
In this way, painful multiple operations – especially in children – can be avoided in the future. The “BRIC – BioResorbable Implants for Children” project,…
What if you could reach through a microscope to touch and feel the microscopic structures under the lens? In a breakthrough that may usher in a new era in the…
Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine and the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts have identified how one type of bacteria,…
From bird flu to the West Nile virus, bird diseases can have a vast impact on humans. Thus, understanding bird immune systems can help people in a variety of…
The researchers demonstrated that FMRP acts as a master switch controlling the levels of several proteins involved in different stages of aggressive breast…
When NASA's TRMM satellite flew over Tropical Storm Ingrid on Sept. 16, it was drenching the Atlantic side in the Gulf of Mexico. On Sept. 16, Hurricane Ingrid…
Tropical storm Manuel may have dissipated, but the storm dropped very heavy rainfall along Mexico's Pacific coast where 21 people have been reported killed due…
Now, University of Missouri researchers have studied how aging adults’ driving cessation influences their work and social lives. The researchers found that…
The results, accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters, also include the determinations of the weak charge of the neutron, and of the up quark and…
Scientists seeking new ways to fight cancer often try to understand the subtle, often invisible, changes to DNA, proteins, cells, and tissue that alter the…