The study – led by Jack E. Dixon, PhD, professor of Pharmacology, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, and Chemistry/Biochemistry at the University of California,…
Sustainable energy consumption, the use of renewable energies, energy efficiency and the reduction of CO2 emissions are the current challenges that cities and…
A new study published today in the Journal of Hospital Medicine found that patients who talk with their physicians about end-of-life care and have an advance…
The climate on Venus is widely known to be unpleasant — at the surface, the planet roasts at more than 800 degrees Fahrenheit under a suffocating blanket of…
What distinguishes the new device system is that it is has a main column intended to protect the aorta and exclude the aneurysm from blood flow and two…
Like a camera, the human eye has an auto-focusing system, but human auto-focusing rarely makes mistakes. And unlike a camera, humans do not require trial and…
But new research at the Weizmann Institute of Science shows that odors can be rated on a scale of pleasantness, and this turns out to be an organizing…
The innovative process allows them to create room-temperature ferromagnetic materials that are stable for long periods more effectively and with fewer steps…
Over 80 % of the worlds energy demands continue to be met with fossil fuels. The environmental problems associated with this, such as global warming, are…
The prescribed use of stimulant medications to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) rose slowly but steadily from 1996 to 2008, according to a…
The research finds that generosity — in the sense of contributing to the public good — influences a person's status on two critical dimensions: prestige and…
In cardiovascular, respiratory, kidney and haematological diseases transplantation remains the most effective long term therapy for patients with advanced…
The new data show how the “marking” of DNA sequences by groups of methyl molecules – a process called methylation – can influence the type of cell a stem cell…
Researchers at the Salk Institute have discovered how a hormone turns on a series of molecular switches inside the pancreas that increases production of…
The study, funded in part by the National Science Foundation, or NSF, and the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative is being published in the journal Proceedings…
NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite known as TRMM passed over Hilary on Sept. 26 at 5:29 a.m. EDT and its precipitation radar instrument…