In a paper published online today on Science Express, the scientists and engineers from the University of British Columbia, the University of Wollongong in…
In September, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services added pulse oximetry to the list of core screening standards; however, no research has been…
One in six mobile phones in Britain is contaminated with faecal matter, according to new research released ahead of Global Handwashing Day. Experts say the…
Fluctuations are fundamental to many physical phenomena in our everyday life, such as the phase transitions from a liquid into a gas or from a solid into a…
Physiologically, the tear film lubricating the eye is composed of three layers: the mucus layer, the aqueous layer and the lipid layer. Conjunctival goblet…
The invention is based on the finding that the proteins Calmodulin-like protein 5 (CALML5) and Calponin-h2 (CNN2) are upregulated in the nuclear matrix of…
Natural products that elicit specific and unique biological responses in mammalian cells represent valuable tools for new therapeutics in the treatment of…
The researchers are hoping that by borrowing these nanoscale tricks from nature they will be able to produce new types of lasers—ones that can assemble…
Black holes are hot! This discovery made by Stephen Hawking ties together gravity, spacetime, quantum matter, and thermal systems into the beautiful and…
During the past two years of intense preparation, the team shaved 200 pounds off its 2009 car by weighing the vehicle bolt by bolt and streamlining nearly…
A University at Buffalo-led research team has established the presence of a dynamic Jahn-Teller effect in defective diamonds, a finding that will help advance…
Pesticides are a bigger problem than had long been assumed. This is the conclusion of a study in which scientists analysed data on 500 organic substances in…
The physics world was rocked recently by the news that a class of subatomic particles known as neutrinos may have broken the speed of light.Adding to the rash…
Amblyopia, sometimes referred to as “lazy eye,” is a cause of poor vision in children. It occurs in about 1.6% to 3.6% of the general population. Early…
To help surgeons in such high-pressure situations, researchers from Prof. Adam Wax's team at Duke University's Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics and…
Astronomers believed that early star-forming galaxies could have provided enough of the right kind of radiation to evaporate the fog, or turn the neutral…
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