These pipes and containers are often injection molded as plastic half shells before being welded together to form the finished product. Infrared heating…
Stephanie Bush said that when the foot-long octopus squid (Octopoteuthis deletron) found deep in the northeast Pacific Ocean “jettisons its arms” in…
In science fiction novels, evil overlords and hostile aliens often threaten to vaporize the Earth. At the beginning of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the…
The results are important in light of the growing number of studies that try to predict which species could be lost in the future based on what kinds of…
This tell-tale signal, called a quasi-periodic oscillation or QPO, is a characteristic feature of the accretion disks that often surround the most compact…
When the ice advanced, the oaks retreated. When the ice retreated the oaks advanced, spreading from tropical to temperate zones, up from Central America and…
This kind of code-switching, or switching back and forth between different languages, happens all the time in multilingual environments, and often in emotional…
That's the conclusion of a new study conducted in part at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and published online by The Lancet this week. The…
Our planet's changing climate is devastating communities in Africa through droughts, floods and myriad other disasters.Using detailed regional climate models…
On October 18-19, 2012, the International Conference on Highlights and Trends in Solar Energy, Solar Summit Freiburg, will be held at the “Konzerthaus”…
Sivanesan Dakshanamurthy and colleagues explain that drug companies must limit efforts to market new drugs because the current approach is so expensive,…
Cele Otnes, a professor of advertising and of business administration who studies how marketing and advertising shapes consumption, says that men who compare…
Written by researchers at Oregon State University, and published online by the U.S. Geological Survey, the study concludes that there is a 40 percent chance of…
A trio of groundbreaking publications from researchers in Northwestern University's Physical Sciences-Oncology Center (PS-OC) report important methodological…
In a study published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Oxford…
In a curious evolutionary twist, several species of a commonly studied fruit fly appear to have incorporated genetic material from a virus into their genomes,…