Natural product combinations as potent as man-made drugsPublished in PLOS ONE in November 2012, the research showed that active ingredients in combinations of…
Increased natural gas production is seen as a crucial step away from the greenhouse gas emissions of coal plants and toward U.S. energy independence. But…
The product of an Office of Naval Research (ONR) Future Naval Capabilities (FNC) program, the waterjets arrived last month at the Marinette Marine shipyard in…
When it comes to gene sequencing and personalized medicine for cancer, spotting an aberrant kinase is a home run. The proteins are relatively easy to target…
The new approach is called model-based iterative reconstruction, or MBIR.”It's more-or-less how humans solve problems by trial and error, assessing probability…
But a new paper by physics professor Andreas Albrecht and graduate student Dan Phillips at the University of California, Davis, makes the case that these…
You might think you have nothing in common with mustard except hotdogs. Yet based on research in a plant from the mustard family, Salk scientists have…
However, particles from inside the solar system bounce off this boundary and neutral atoms from that collision stream inward. Those particles can be observed…
An allergic reaction to cockroaches is a major contributor to asthma in urban children, but new research suggests that the insects are just one part of a more…
Mothers who are exposed to particulate air pollution of the type emitted by vehicles, urban heating and coal power plants are significantly more likely to bear…
Jeffrey Joy has discovered that symbiosis — a relationship between two or more organisms that can be parasitic or mutualistic — is as much the mother of…
With climate change models predicting higher temperatures and months without rainfall; this could decrease the populations of already endangered Asian…
Production expenses for high-value organic crops like lettuce and broccoli can exceed $7,000 per acre, so producers often try to streamline costs with an…
Historic lake sediment dug up by University of Pittsburgh researchers reveals that oceanic influences on rainfall in Central America have varied over the last…
CT scanners are equipped with one or two X-ray tubes that rotate around the patient. A detector is positioned opposite each tube. Bones and body tissue…
The two companies want to test the smart grid's behavior and technology in practice. Due to its large share of renewable sources of energy, Wachtendonk serves…