Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory and other labs have demonstrated a process whereby quantum dots can…
Lower mortality and other improved patient outcomes achieved at designated “Magnet hospitals” are explained partly—but not completely—by better nurse staffing,…
When steel is too hard it becomes brittle, so the plant ended up getting new tubing. However, Deibler said KCP needed a backup in case it couldn’t find…
NASA's Aqua satellite provided an image of Imelda that showed wind shear that has been hammering the storm, had pushed the bulk of the storm's precipitation…
Developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the new microbatteries out-power even the best supercapacitors and could drive new…
The precise position measurements clear up a mystery about the observed productivity of these objects. They also show that previous studies of these objects…
The astronomers discussed their findings Tuesday at the 2013 Huntsville Gamma-ray Burst Symposium in Nashville, Tenn., a meeting sponsored in part by the…
As the magnetosphere plows through space, it sets up a standing bow wave or bow shock, much like that in front of a moving ship. Just in front of this bow wave…
A previous study by the University of Colorado Cancer Center reported the common side effect of low testosterone in men treated with the recently approved lung…
“You always think about stress as a really bad thing, but it’s not,” said Daniela Kaufer, associate professor of integrative biology at the University of…
The Fraunhofer Institute for Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP will present from 22 – 24 April 2013 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA, new and highly…
With the hope of predicting patient survival, researchers at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson and at the Ohio State University…
“We conducted a study to quantify dose reduction, comparing two years' worth of data and 11,458 abdomen and pelvic CT exams,” said Dr. Jonas Rydberg, lead…
The study, conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, used a 3D image processing tool to quantitatively measure the volume of the lymph nodes and…
Salt Lake Valley, home to the Salt Lake City segment of the Wasatch fault zone and the West Valley fault zone, has been the site of repeated surface-faulting…
This is the result of their theoretical study on an electron that tunnels out of an atom in an intense laser field while being accelerated up near to the speed…