Siemens Healthcare expands its ultrasound portfolio with the introduction of the Acuson P300 ultrasound system, a compact portable device for a wide variety of…
The soot is a scourge for the climate but also for human health. Now for the first time, researchers have studied in detail how diesel soot gets stuck in the…
“Despite the name ‘social networks,' much user activity on networking sites is self-focused,” said Brittany Gentile, a UGA doctoral candidate who looked at the…
New data released by the Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS) to coincide with World Spirometry Day today has revealed a worrying lack of…
Test performance can improve dramatically if students are offered rewards just before they are given standardized tests and if they receive the incentive…
Each year, Nordicom at Gothenburg University carries out a nationally representative survey of media use among the Swedish people. Media Barometer 2011…
Friml receives the award for defining how the plant hormone auxin functions to regulate plant development. He was also recognized for showing how the…
According to Lee, switchgrass has been studied extensively as a forage crop and a dedicated energy crop. Recently this research has been extended to big…
The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite is basically a flying rain gauge in space. Scientists use TRMM data to calculate rainfall rates and…
While current American Heart Association heart failure prevention guidelines warn against habitual coffee consumption, some studies propose a protective…
Researchers focusing on this effect as a possible target for cancer therapies have examined how biochemical signals present in cancer cells regulate the…
More than 40 years later, the Allende meteorite is still serving the scientific community as a rich source of information about the early stages of our solar…
A patient registry is proving invaluable in cataloging the clinical features, symptoms, severity, and outcomes of fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD), a…
“BEAN – Bridging the European and Anatolian Neolithic” is the name of a new multinational educational network which has received funding from the European…
Top athletes and other virtuosi can perform sequences of movements with a temporal precision of a millisecond (1/1000 second). However, how this is…
A study conducted by researchers at the University of Washington College of Built Environments and a South Korean university shows that, contrary to popular…