Reading electronic books is no more effortful for the brain than reading traditional paper books. To the contrary: Older people actually benefit from reading…
The study published this week in the journal Nature Communications will help pioneer a new field of research in materials science, in the same way organic…
“We’re trying to figure out what the mechanism is—what it takes to make fat cells,” says Whitehead Founding Member Harvey Lodish, who is also a professor of…
Erosion of the discharge channels walls, however, has limited their application to the inner solar system. A research team at Caltech’s Jet Propulsion…
Designed to imitate the 2011 Virginia quake that rattled the East Coast, the test will occur at 11 a.m. Feb. 19 at the University at Buffalo’s…
It will begin on Saturday, March 09th: After a team of 30 members, consisting of future Tourism Managers assesses all the approximately 12,000 exhibitors at…
The technology, called acoustic-assisted magnetic recording, has been presented at a professional conference, and a patent application was filed this week.Magnetic storage of data is one of the most inexpensive and widespread technologies known, found in everything from computer hard drives to the magnetic strip on a credit card. It’s permanent, dependable and cheap. However, long-term reliability of stored data becomes an increasing concern as the need grows to pack more and more information in storage devices, experts say….
Since the beginning of time, living organisms have developed ingenious mechanisms to monitor their environment. As part of an international study, a team of…
The finding, to be published Feb. 14 in the journal Science, suggests that in these regions, human genetic variation dates back to a common ancestor with…
In order to reduce the carbon dioxide output from coal power plants, CO2 could be removed from their exhaust (post-combustion capture) and stored or, if…
Research published in the February, 13, 2013, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, shows that fragments of…
“Scientists have been trying to find the sources of high-energy cosmic rays since their discovery a century ago,” said Elizabeth Hays, a member of the research…
Researchers at The University of Arizona Cancer Center at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix have discovered that many women with low-grade…
The team led by Rainer Blatt reversed a quantum measurement in a prototype quantum information processor. The experiment is enabled by a technique that has…
TRMM flew over Cyclone Gino on Thursday, Feb. 14 at 0806 UTC (3:06 a.m. EST) and measured the rainfall rates occurring throughout the storm. The bulk of the…
The study appeared in the Feb. 13 online issue of Oncogene. The IKBKE gene is part of a family of enzyme complexes involved in increasing cellular…
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