Pulmonary embolism occurs when a blood clot—usually from the leg—travels to the lung and blocks the pulmonary artery or one of its main branches. CT…
In a new study, researchers from the Colorado School of Public Health have shown that air pollution caused by hydraulic fracturing or fracking may contribute…
Allergic asthma affects more than 100 million people worldwide and its prevalence is increasing, particularly among children in industrialized countries….
For a long time, wolves had been wiped out in Germany, now they are slowly getting back home. But not everyone is happy at the return of the wild animal. The…
A conference in India on the topic urban research will mark the founding of the South Asia Institute (SAI) of Heidelberg University 50 years ago. The SAI was…
The most recent of seven Zimpro WAO systems installed at Sinopec facilities will be used to treat sulfidic spent caustic wastewater streams generated in the…
IU anthropologist Michael P. Muehlenbein can't say yet what makes the wild orangutans of Borneo deal with stress differently than other species in other…
There are no effective treatments for the disease, which can also strike older children. And several therapeutic approaches, evaluated in mouse models and in…
They have garnered attention as energy storage devices as they charge and discharge faster than batteries, yet they are still limited by low energy densities,…
By applying specific voltages, the team has also shown that it can achieve this control over large and curved surface areas.”By changing the voltage applied to…
The infected tumor cells release a protein called CCN1 into the narrow space between cells where it initiates an antiviral response. The response limits the…
Over the last few decades there has been an explosion in the discovery of biomarkers for diagnosis, disease monitoring, and prognostic evaluation. In the April…
Aircraft Interiors Expo is the global trade fair of reference for the aircraft-interior sector, as well as for services to airlines. The trade fair is taking…
Smoking, the leading preventable cause of mortality in the United States, continues to disproportionately impact lower income members of racial and ethnic…
In fact, said author Margaret Taylor, a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) who conducted the study while an assistant professor…
The research, detailed in a recent feature article in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, has found that one type of pavement sealcoat, common on…