Robots can assist with a variety of everyday living tasks, but limited research exists on seniors’ attitudes toward and acceptance of robots as caregivers and…
A new study of migratory insects has just been published that shows that a considerably higher number of insects survive and migrate back south in the autumn…
The annual funding of €250,000 over five years and the possibility of being taken on as a permanent member of staff represent a great boost to these talented…
Researchers at the North Carolina State University and Chung Jen College of Nursing, Health Sciences and Management (Taiwan) conducted a study to investigate…
Troponin I, found exclusively in heart muscle, is already used as the gold-standard marker in blood tests to diagnose heart attacks, but the new findings…
Abstinence from smoking seems to affect teens differently than adults in a couple of ways, but a new study provides evidence that most of the psychological…
NASA's Global Hawk landed back at Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va., after spending a full day gathering data from the 14th Atlantic Tropical…
The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument onboard Aqua captured an infrared image of System 90E on Sept. 11 at 1947 UTC (3:47 p.m. EDT). That infrared…
Slow-wave sleep, or 'deep sleep', is intimately involved in the complex control of the onset of puberty, according to a recent study accepted for publication…
There is no evidence to link mildly elevated thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels to an increase in mortality among the elderly, according to a recent…
The study published in the August issue of The Journal of Immunology.Awareness of the condition increased earlier this year when ABC’s “Good Morning America”…
Despite improved sanitation, water supplies, and food safety, diarrhoea remains a common cause of illness worldwide. It is reported to account for…
A system that has only two possible stable states, such as a light switch, is called bistable by scientists and engineers. Bistability in microscale devices…
Hydrogen is crucial for the oil-refining industry and the production of essential chemicals such as the ammonia used in fertilizers. Since producing hydrogen…
Most materials will break when a force is applied to an imperfection in their structure — such as a notch or dislocation. The behavior of these imperfections,…
Luminescent carbon nanoparticles based on carbon exhibit advantageous optical properties. They are also biocompatible, and therefore better suited for imaging…
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