“Imaging the coronary arteries that supply the heart with blood is extremely difficult because they are very small and constantly in motion,” said lead…
In a series of commentaries appearing on Tuesday, October 9 in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, prominent…
<strong>Background</strong><br>
Bone medicine and tissue engineering is becoming increasingly important in the ageing modern society. Up to 55% of over fifty…
In modern telecommunications, light carries digital information over kilometers within seconds. Adapted optical materials control the light signals. In the AFM…
Petri-dish experiments conducted by now-retired Agricultural Research Service (ARS) research leader Bruce C. Campbell, ARS molecular biologist Jong H. Kim, and…
California, Nevada, and Florida have already made driverless cars street-legal, and continuing advances in the technology have led many to predict that the…
Reinhold Dauskardt, PhD, of Stanford’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering has been studying skin for years. But when he sent his students to look…
An engine without oil will not survive for very long. Pistons need plenty of lubricant in order to be able to move within the cylindrical sleeves in the engine…
From email to Twitter, blogs to word processors, computer programs provide countless communications opportunities. While social applications have dominated the…
Chronic morphine exposure has the opposite effect on the brain compared to cocaine in mice, providing new insight into the basis of opiate addiction, according…
Not to be confused with a solar flare, which is a burst of light and radiation, CMEs are a phenomenon that can send solar particles into space and can reach…
NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Storm Oscar on Oct. 4 at 1335 UTC (9:35 a.m. EDT) and the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)…
NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite passed above long-lasting Nadine for the last time before the tropical storm's dissipation on…
“Bright X-ray novae are so rare that they're essentially once-a-mission events and this is the first one Swift has seen,” said Neil Gehrels, the mission's…
The study, which is published online in PLOS ONE, points to the involvement of specific genes and alterations in their expression as influencing the risk for…
The finding, appearing today in the journal Science, points ahead to groundbreaking experiments involving Einstein's general theory of relativity. Those tests…