To diagnose autism spectrum disorders, clinicians typically administer a variety of tests or scales and use information from observations and parent interviews…
Essentially, they say, the tool is an electron version of the laser “optical tweezers” that have become a standard tool in biology, physics and chemistry for…
A team of researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has just concluded a 10-year-long study of the fate of neutrons in…
According to the study, “A Patchwork of Progress: Changes in Overweight and Obesity Among California 5th, 7th and 9th Graders, 2005�,” prepared by the UCLA…
Commercial and residential buildings consume vast amounts of energy, water, and material resources. In fact, U.S. buildings account for more than 40 percent of…
NIST plans to issue the final U.S. Government Cloud Computing Roadmap as a three-volume work. The first two volumes were posted for public comment on Nov. 1,…
The science expedition will be the most extensive ever deployed to Pine Island Glacier. It is the area of the ice-covered continent that concerns scientists…
Late breaking clinical trial results from testing of cangrelor, an investigational intravenous antiplatelet, showed patients can be “bridged” from the time…
Eugenics – the science of improving the human population via selective breeding or reproduction – is not a concept confined to past centuries and decades, nor…
This idea led Peter Guthrie Tait to prepare meticulous and quite beautiful tables of knots, in an effort to elucidate when two knots are truly different. From…
While it has been well established that royal jelly is the diet that makes bees queens, the molecular path from food to queen is still in dispute. However,…
Using the example of gaze movements, scientists of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU) and the Bernstein Center Munich show that we unconsciously…
They have shown that brains in mammals have grown over the course of evolution without the digestive organs having to become smaller. The researchers have…
Feuerstein is co-author of a recent survey documenting the crustaceans, mollusks, algae and other marine organisms that make a home on the bodies Olive Ridley…
In contrast, those forest formations that are more adapted to cold and humid conditions, such as beech and Sylvester pines, could shrink by up to 99%. Both…
Data mining Twitter “tweets” may produce a gold mine for two University of Cincinnati computer science students. William Clifton and Alex Padgett have…
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