A preliminary 16-person study suggests that eating pistachios may help alter levels of potentially beneficial bacteria in the gut, a finding that holds promise…
City streets can be mean, but somewhere near Brooklyn, a tree grows far better than its country cousins, due to chronically elevated city heat levels, says a…
A new study has found huge variations in what ophthalmologists charge for a device used in one of the most common surgeries in Ontario.While universal…
The study, published in the April 24 issue of the open-access Malaria Journal, analyzed the causes of 75 documented episodes of malaria resurgence throughout…
In an article to be published in a forthcoming issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science,…
If you walk into a cloud at the top of a mountain with a cup to slake your thirst, it might take a while for your cup to fill. The tiny, barely-there droplets…
The coolest new nanomaterial of the 21st century could boost the efficiency of the next generation of solar panels, a team of Michigan Technological University…
However the most important raw ingredient in this chemical factory – methane gas, a molecule made up of one carbon atom joined to four hydrogen atoms – should…
It has been estimated that roughly 4% to 6% of child abuse victims present first to an ophthalmologist. In a case study in the April issue of the Journal of…
The allocation is a key part of the team’s efforts to conduct larger, data-intensive computations related to its Clean Energy Project (CEP), which combines the…
A Kansas State University team is researching how climate change is affecting rainfall and weather patterns throughout Kansas to help with future adaptation…
A team of Japanese researchers will reveal study results Monday at the Experimental Biology 2012 meeting that show how acupuncture therapy mitigates skeletal…
Within each of the cells in our bodies, and between individual cells, there are permanent transport processes occurring over distances ranging from a few…
Paramyxoviruses originate from ubiquitous bats, from where the pathogens have spread to humans and other mammals. In total, this unique study tested 9,278…
Analysing brain tissue from biopsies, the researchers for the first time found stem cells located around small blood vessels in the brain. The cell's specific…
The behavior of marine larvae is central to fully understanding and modeling the pelagic (open ocean) stage for many coastal organisms. For the first time, a…