Scientists, health officials, and manufacturers already know that a chemical preservative found in some products, including cosmetics, is harmful to people and…
One tiny insect, the hemlock woolly adelgid, is to blame. The Asian insect first appeared in the eastern U.S. in Richmond, Va., in the 1950s. In 2003, it…
For the first time, researchers have analyzed the multitude of microorganisms residing in the human gut as a complex, integrated biological system, rather than…
Like the human body, a digital device often suffers a few bruises and scratches within a lifetime. As in medicine, these injuries can be easily detected and…
A wonderful breakthrough for scientists from the universities of Würzburg and Stony Brook (USA): they have shed light on the binding and action mechanisms of…
Older patients with cirrhosis have significant functional disability, require twice the amount of informal caregiving, and contribute added strain on the…
Racing outward at about one-quarter the speed of light, these “bullets” of ionized gas are thought to arise from a region located just outside the black hole's…
In a random sky survey made in near-infrared light, Hubble found five tiny galaxies clustered together 13.1 billion light-years away. They are among the…
Despite popular belief about women's weight concerns, young women commonly fail to recognize recent gain of as many as 11 pounds – putting them at risk for…
Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT) scans the entire sky every three hours, continually deepening its portrait of the sky in gamma rays, the most energetic form…
The pilot program was initiated to establish surveillance and testing methods to uncover the potential public health risks from illegally imported wildlife…
The ESMT Innovation Index 2010 analyzes the innovation of 15 major European energy suppliers. The index consists of three differently weighted sub-indices,…
Of all the habitable parts of our planet, one ecosystem still remains largely unexplored and unknown to science: the igneous ocean crust.This rocky realm of…
With luck, that analysis will yield a record of past climate and environmental changes in the region for several centuries, and perhaps even covering the last…
The scientists, led by Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Eric Mamajek of Rochester and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, used data from…
Nicotine has been shown to improve cognitive performance in smokers who have stopped smoking and previous short-term studies with nicotine have shown attention…
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